1 May 2023

DIVISION, DERISION, & DECEPTION: DESCENT INTO DAMNATION

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret” (Ephesians 5:11).

APOSTASY AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

Oklahoma: Street preacher threatened with jail after citing Bible verses against local LGBTQ organization. Rich Penkoski, a pastor who heads up Warriors for Christ, has protested drag shows for children nationwide. The judge issued a 5-year restraining order against him.

There should be a song these days, for a number of reasons, titled “Please Don’t Come to Boston…” Here’s the latest: An event billed as “the largest satanic gathering in history” held in Boston this weekend by The Satanic Temple, a provocative Salem, Massachusetts-based organization. The sold-out event features rituals, marketplace, wedding chapel, and celebrated the temple’s 10th anniversary.

Celebrities and Occult: ‘Harry Potter’ Actress Emma Watson Thanks “Witches In My Coven” for being pivotal in who she’s become. She referenced the astrology concept of “Saturn Return” as she turns 33. Many female celebrities are publicly confessing association with witchcraft/occult. Examples: Disney star Vanessa Hudgens promoted a reality film about her descent into witchcraft. She said, “I’m hoping it makes other curious people out there to be inspired to open their hearts, minds and soul, trust their intuition, and find a bit more peace in the unknown.” Actress Megan Fox admitted performing occult rituals with her fiancé and drinking each other’s blood during their engagement. Marvel actress Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Scarlet Witch, admitted witnessing witchcraft and friendship with actresses who are witches.

God warns against sorcery (Deuteronomy 18:10-12; Galatians 5:19-21).

In a recent survey, less than half of supposedly born-again Christians believed Jesus lived a sinless life while on Earth, or that human life is sacred.

Godless, Senseless Global Warming Agenda: Federal government doesn’t know the extent that regulations are reducing greenhouse gas emissions despite committing $200 billion toward the issue.

Islam and Terrorism: ‘The Kerala Story’: Movie Exposes Forced Conversion and Grooming of Christian and Hindu Girls for ISIS.

Islamized Sweden: Christians Surrounded By Muslim Gang Chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (Video). In just two generations, Sweden has gone from being one of the safest countries to one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. Mass immigration has dramatically altered its population. The share of migrants and their descendants has quickly soared to about a third of the total population. A 12-hour documentary exposes Sweden’s destruction at the hands of left-wing Globalists and Islamic migrants.

Germans Are Fed-Up with the Blasting Islamic Call to Prayer; It’s a Land Grab (Video). A rising number of Islamic establishments across Germany (and other areas of Western Europe) publicly summon Muslims to prayer five times a day using the declaration “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is Greater”). The transformation of Germany into a Middle Eastern replica has left many citizens angry and frustrated. The incessant call to prayer from mosques, amplified through loudspeakers, is disturbing peaceful mornings and evenings nationwide. Several of the 3,000 mosques in Germany have adopted this practice.

HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL

Christian group stands up to neo-Nazi antisemitism in Florida. Antisemitism nationwide is growing at an alarming rate.

PERVASIVE PERVERSION

After complaints from parents last month, sex education was temporarily halted (pending an investigation) in Isle of Man schools. A drag queen told 11-year-old students that there are 73 genders and made a child leave the class for saying there are only two. One group of students was taught about oral and anal sex. The island, a dependency of the British crown, reportedly introduced a new RSE curriculum in September. One teacher had to teach a group of boys and girls ages 11-13 how to masturbate.

This Is What They Are Sneaking into Kid’s Shows Now (Video). The Left believes no one is too young to be indoctrinated. The first example is a Netflix non-binary cartoon series for preschoolers called Ridley Jones (aired in 2021 and was just recently canceled after two years of indoctrinating the little ones).

M·A·C· Cosmetics has a VIVA GLAM line that financially supports the LGBTQ lifestyle. It uses drag queens, transgenders, and, particularly, trans social media influencers to push this lifestyle onto impressionable teens. In truth, M·A·C· is pushing an agenda of sexual confusion instead of just selling makeup.

TRANS-VENGEANCE IS ESCALATING

Trans activist calls for murdering people who stop men from entering girls’ bathrooms. Jay, who calls himself female, called for trans activists to use guns against anyone who wished to bar them from female facilities. “So you go ahead,” he said. “You ‘protect your kids’ from me using the bathroom. If you back a wild animal into a corner, they’re going to become a dangerous animal.” If this was a conservative issuing a call to arms, it would be front-page news. But a trans activist doing so – crickets. Violence by trans activists against anyone who disagrees with them has been escalating and consistently ignored by the mainstream media while their threats grow more brazen.

Republican legislators barred Montana’s transgender state Rep. Zooey Zephyr from the rest of the state House session after he suggested to GOP legislators their child-protection rules would spill “blood on your hands.” Mainstream media and other minions, of course, came to his defense. Zephyr calls himself a bisexual transwoman.

THE ABORTION ABOMINATION

Planned Parenthood’s newly released annual report for 2021-2022 shows the corporation performed 374,155 abortions for the year ending June 30, 2022 (over 1,000 a day), while collecting $670.4 million in government grants and reimbursements.

INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND

Murders jumped 10% since 2021 in major Democrat-led US cities thanks to soft-on-crime policies. Memphis, New Orleans, Richmond, Washington, DC, and Detroit are suffering from the biggest homicide rate problems. All five cities are led by left-wing mayors.

Shaken by crime spikes and creeping sense of lawlessness, more Americans are bulletproofing vehicles.

Texas: Man kills 5, including 8-year-old, after a complaint about him firing rounds in his yard. Authorities are still searching for the suspect, 39-year-old Francisco Oropeza. The victims were Hondurans who had just moved from Houston. It’s not known if the move was to be permanent.

Netherlands: Male nurse arrested this week on suspicion of killing up to 24 Covid patients. Focus of investigation: March 2020 to May 2022.

Haiti: Residents grabbed suspected gang members from police, then beat, shot and burned them, some while still alive due to being sick of the vicious gangs and lack of police protection.

TRAITORS AND THEIR TREACHERY

More Dem Deception. Blinken piously proclaimed, “As President Biden has said, democracy doesn’t happen by accident… It requires constant effort.” Or, in the case of the 2020 election, it required deceiving American voters. Polls show Biden would’ve lost the election if media had accurately reported contents of the Biden laptop from hell. (FYI: Didn’t he lose anyway? They just stole the election.)

Communism: Taking US Down Without Firing a Shot. Stanford University Rakes in Chinese Funding, $27 million since the start of 2021, underscoring the Communist Party’s influence-peddling operations at major American colleges. Chinese funding for American schools has skyrocketed under the Biden administration.

DELIBERATE BORDER DISORDER

Say What?! Dozens of Dem-witted in House and Senate introduced legislation that would make it harder to hold illegal aliens in custody if they qualify as “vulnerable” such as gay, lesbian or transgender, don’t speak English, or meet other definitions of the term under the bill.

Thousands of Chinese Men “Migrating” Across Our Southern Border; almost all men of military age. Could this be part of a plan?

Geert Wilders Calls Out ‘Arab Influence’ Over EU Politicians Pushing for ‘Islamization of Europe.’ “Weak politicians and cultural relativists have destabilized Europe by letting in millions of migrants, many of whom come from Islamic countries and embrace the violent and totalitarian Islamic Sharia law.”

PLAGUE, PESTILENCE…

Researchers in Spain say they discovered multidrug-resistant E. coli strains in 40% of chicken, turkey, beef, and pork products for sale in shops across the country. E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also “highly” prevalent, according to results. Scientists say antibiotic resistance is reaching “dangerously high” levels around the world.

AND THE PLANNED-DEMIC

New Study Suggests Carbon Dioxide Buildup from Wearing Face Masks Increases Risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction, & cognitive deterioration.

MEDICAL FYI: Exposing HIPAA: The deliberate deception. HIPAA is not a privacy law. It’s a permissive data-sharing rule that enables — not prevents — sharing of private health information. In most people’s minds, the covered entity is the doctor, hospital, clinic, or lab they shared their information with. Few imagine there are over 700,000 covered entities plus 1.5 million business associates that could have access to a patient’s medical records if the covered entity chooses to share them. Patient consent is not required.

ECONOMIC AND FOOD INSECURITY

More Americans losing their homes as foreclosures rise.

WEATHER EVENTS

Myanmar: Rare large tornado April 21: 8 dead; 128 injured; over 200 homes destroyed. Affected residents are in dire need of aid; rebuilding process expected to take months.

Worst April Heatwave in Asian History. A severe heatwave has swept across much of Asia, causing school closures in India, record-breaking temperatures in China, and deaths all across.

OTHER EVENTS OF CONCERN

Another freight train derailment, this one in Mississippi. An unknown number of cars carrying freight of all kinds were involved. Two containers went into the Mississippi River; neither supposedly contained hazardous materials. Some of the containers derailed on shore contained paint and lithium-ion batteries.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

US to deploy nuclear submarines to South Korea to deter North Korean threats.

CONCLUSION

Man brings destruction upon himself. “But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (James 1:14-15).

“Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

The Lord will soon judge the world in a mighty way for its evil. Only the saved in Christ will be taken up in the rapture to escape the coming wrath during the Tribulation (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11).

“Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt…. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible” (Isaiah 13:6-7, 11).

1 May 2023

We’re Going Up to Jerusalem

(I am planning a tour group of Israel for Spring 2024, with Pastor Chris Quintana of Old Path Ministries. Message me if you’d like to go with us!)

Happily, in a week, I leave for another trip to Israel. It’s a great privilege to go even once. To go multiple times is sublime. I’ll have more to say about the trip later, but for now, I’d like to know what you the reader of “Israel Watch” lo these many years would like to see. What would you like for me to report on? What sites would you like to see presented in-depth? Email me your requests; we can’t get to them all, but we’ll take a crack at several.

A lot of people have asked if I am concerned about safety over there.

Not at all.

Short of a declared war, I would not hesitate to visit the Holy Land. The Israelis are the Cadillac of security. I even drive myself around with no problem.

Now to what is up today with the Jewish state.

Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, visited the border between Lebanon and Israel this week. His host was the fiendish boss of Hezbollah, Sheik Nasrallah. The meeting was mostly a propaganda opportunity and more Arab saber-rattling. In fact, Amir-Abdollahian said that, “Zionists only understand force.” He then spewed some more nonsense:

“I received accurate situation assessments from Nasrallah and confirmation that the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups are in the best condition they have ever been.”

He visited Maroun al-Ras, near the border. He, like Haman, Hitler, Nasser and countless other hoods, predicted the “Zionists” would surely “collapse.”

He should do stand-up.

According to a report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

“World Jerusalem Day rallies were held throughout Iran on April 14, 2023, and exploited by the Iranian leadership to express the Iranian Republic’s continuing support for the Palestinians. Meeting with senior state officials and ambassadors from Islamic states for Eid al-Fitr, the Iranian supreme leader praised the Palestinian ‘resistance’ to Israel and declared that the ‘Zionist regime’ would become weaker as the ‘resistance’ became stronger.

“The Iranian foreign minister held a telephone call with the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and with the chairman of Hamas’ political bureau to assure them of Iran’s support for the Palestinians.

“The Israeli Security Agency revealed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Qods Force and Hezbollah were recruiting Palestinians from Judea and Samaria to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel.”

Notice a pattern? The same empty threats. Well, not empty, but I would say toothless. They are toothless for one specific reason: God has promised in His Word that the Jewish people are eternal. I legitimately believe the Spirit is grieved if we as individual believers give in to fear. Fear is a man-made construct, stoked by the enemy. Fear is not from the Lord.

Now, that doesn’t mean that the heathen don’t rage.

At the same time the Iranians are issuing threats to Israel regionally, defense ministers and intelligence directors for Russia, Turkey, Iran, and Syria met to discuss the situation in Syria. Bashar Assad still assumes the title of president, but since the 2011 civil war erupted, he’s been a client-state of the Russians and Iranians.

While chiefs met to discuss specifically Syria, they were obsessed with Israel, claiming that the Israeli forces had killed two operatives. The efforts to hit Israelis in Judea and Samaria are real, no doubt. Over 160 attacks have occurred, with 50 percent of them being shooting attacks. And Jews have been murdered, for sure.

But even in this, we see the Palestinian terrorists’ weakness, along with their overlords. Israel remains strong as an ox, rebuffing any large-scale attack, which includes all-out war. The truth is, no one in the region can handle Israel. They might (and will, eventually) band together, but even in this past history shows us the Israelis are undefeated. The Iranians and Syrians and Lebanese can talk all they want about liquidating Israel, but notice that they haven’t done it yet.

Not for lack of trying.

If the evil leadership among the Palestinians didn’t continually keep things stirred up through lies, there’s no telling what kind of jewel the Middle East could become. On April 22, Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi spoke on the phone with Tamim ibn Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, for Eid al-Fitr. They discussed the Palestinian issue, and Raisi related to the ‘recent crimes of the Zionist regime against al-Aqsa and the unprotected [Ramadan] fasters.’”

Here’s a clue. They were referring to the famous Al-Aksa Mosque, situated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. I can tell you from personal experience, no one is assaulting Arabs on the Temple Mount. No one is assaulting the Al-Aksa. These are giant lies. I’ve been there many times. The only people causing trouble, or getting barred from visiting, is Jews and Gentiles. I purposely delayed my trip until Ramadan is over, because during that month of Muslim observance, anyone not Arab has little-to-no chance of ascending the Temple Mount.

So who is the problem?

During these meetings that I’ve mentioned above, though, the leaders have tipped their hand. Their real goal is to “liberate the historic lands of Palestine.” That is the goal: eliminate Israel.

The Israeli Security Agency revealed that IRGC’ Qods Force and Hezbollah were recruiting Palestinians from Judea and Samaria to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. According to the Agency, in recent months two Palestinians from Judea and Samaria, Yussuf Mansour and Marsil Mansour, had been detained, and confessed to having agreed to a request from two operatives, Huda Mahana and Muhammed Radwan (aka “Muhammad Bashir”) to smuggle weapons into Judea and Samaria and sell them, and to collect information about IDF activities and recruit other operatives for terrorist attacks.

Let me conclude for now by saying that even though the Palestinians are causing trouble, spurred by their hatred of Jews, we as believers should pray for them. It “feels like” the world overall has become too insane to last much longer. Eternity is coming for all of us, and the Lord doesn’t wish that any perish!

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com