24 Apr 2023

The Rockets’ Red Glare

 (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!)

 On Passover Eve this year, rockets from different directions were fired at Israel, precisely at the same time Iranian officials were meeting in Beirut. Fifty were launched from Gaza, 34 from Lebanon, and three from Syria. All came from Palestinian terror groups.

In response IDF aircraft and artillery attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, south Lebanon, the rocket launchers and several other targets in southern Syria, including a military facility of the Syrian army’s Fourth Division, radar and Syrian army artillery.

As usual, the terrorists created a pretext for the murderous impulses. It was claimed that the rockets were sent due to the Israelis storming the Al-Aksa Mosque. According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

“The clash spread to the mosque itself when police entered to remove several hundred men and woman who refused to leave. During the riots Palestinians threw chairs and other objects at the Israeli police and shot fireworks at the forces, who were employing teargas and shock grenades. The Palestinians reported many casualties and claimed they had been beaten by Israeli police forces. They also reported extensive damage to the mosque. Dozens of Palestinians were detained. The riots were documented by videos which were uploaded to Palestinian and Arab-Muslim media outlets and received extensive coverage. In addition to rocket fire, riots broke out in east Jerusalem and at locations in Judea and Samaria, and Palestinians carried out several terrorist attacks.”

The terrorists framed all this in an interesting way: that opening “three fronts” against Israel ensured victory. It is a symbolic premise, to be sure.

Of the rockets fired from Gaza, 23 landed in Israel, and eight were intercepted by the Iron Dome. One scored a direct hit on an Israeli home at Sderot, but the family was in a shelter.

The details of this terror activity are quite interesting, showing the close coordination between various Palestinian factions.

“The Lebanese army and UNIFIL began a joint investigation to locate the site from which the rockets had been fired (al-Mayadeen, April 6, 2023). According to reports, they searched the Qlaileh area and along the Lebanese border (al-Araby al-Jadeed, April 6, 2023).

“The Lebanese army said the rockets had been fired from the regions of Qlaileh, al-Malia and Zibkin. Patrols found additional rockets, ready for firing (Lebanese army Twitter account, April 6, 2023). The Lebanese army later announced that another rocket launcher with unfired rockets had been found near Marjayoun in south Lebanon, and that the rockets were being neutralized (Lebanese army Twitter account, April 7, 2023).”

The Lebanese army and UNIFIL aren’t exactly Israel-friendly, of course, but at least they know it’s better to quell the violence, or Israel will greatly go up-tempo. That could quickly escalate into the Third Lebanon War. And I want you to notice something from this next part of the report:

“Lebanese sources reported that targets had been attacked near the al-Rashidiya refugee camp south of Tyre and near the village of Qlaileh and the al-Malia junction, from which rockets had apparently been fired (al-Jazeera, April 7, 2023). It was also reported that the attacks destroyed the al-Limona Bridge near the al-Rashidiya refugee camp and an electrical transformer, and that buildings and vehicles had been damaged by the concussion from the attack (Lebanese National News Agency, April 7, 2023). Attempts were made to minimize the damage done by the attack, claiming Israel had attacked a sheep farm in Rashidiya, a house and a banana plantation in Qlaileh while Israel claimed it had attacked Hamas military targets. Hezbollah did not react to the attack.”

Israel attacks sheep farms? Banana plantations? The absurdity is so off-the-charts, one struggles to understand how and why the West doesn’t just go Chuck Norris on the Palestinian terrorists. The terrorism in Israel could be stamped-out with the same speed Trump used to liquidate ISIS. But too many people are invested in perpetuating the evil “land for peace” deal. Meanwhile the death rains down on Israelis and Arabs alike. The leadership doesn’t care.

And I saw a report this week that both Democrats and Republicans in Washington condemn anti-Semitism. This simply isn’t true. In fact, I would guess that relatively few actually care and do anything to combat it. That’s one of the outcomes of a Washington regime and Deep State so corrupt it can never be reformed. So while lip service is paid to supporting Israel and “fighting” anti-Semitism, rockets continue to come down and Jews are shot in the biblical heartland.

It is the rocket attacks, along with internal political struggles in Israel that in the short-term present the worst challenges. Iranian rhetoric about destroying Israel aside, the more serious threats are much closer to home.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

 

This Is Reality, Not a Conspiracy Theory :: By Daymond Duck

Concerning world government: on Apr. 13, 2023, The Gateway Pundit posted an article by Joe Hoft, author, and contributor to their website, concerning a Steve Bannon interview of Michele Bachmann on The War Room.

Hoft reported that Michele Bachmann (attorney, Dean of Robertson School of Government at Regent Univ., first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota) said:

  • In July 2022, Pres. Biden was pushing an amendment to an agreement (on international health regulations; IHRs) with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) that would “prevent Americans from doing anything that the World government didn’t want to be done and would, in essence, take away all rights of Americans in an emergency like COVID,” but “a couple of small African countries stopped it.”
  • “We have had a one-year reprieve, thank God.
  • “We’re exactly where we were one year ago.”
  • “The Biden Administration is trying to push all 194 nations to give up their sovereignty on health care (at the upcoming WHO Assembly meeting on May 21-30, 2023), which is really just give up your sovereignty to the World Health Organization…”

According to Bannon, China owns the WHO, and America’s Bill of Rights means nothing to these people.

Here is a link to the Hoft article:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/the-biden-administration-is-trying-to-push-all-194-nations-to-give-up-their-sovereignty-to-the-who-dean-michele-bachmann-with-steve-bannon/

Leo Hohmann (author and independent journalist) wrote an article about this for a ministry called Absolute Truth from the Word of God.

As I understand it, Hohmann said:

  • The Biden regime is pushing amendments to the IHRs that will give the WHO the power to dictate U.S. policy whenever there is a declared public health emergency of regional or international concern.
  • By declaring a public health emergency, the WHO will be allowed to force every nation to require their people to wear a mask, obey lockdowns, and be vaccinated.
  • The agreement will prevent Americans from doing anything that the United Nations world government apparatus doesn’t want to be done.
  • In essence, the agreement will take away all rights (freedom of speech, religion, etc.) of Americans in an emergency like COVID.
  • The Biden administration is trying to avoid a vote in the U.S. Senate by calling the agreement an “accord” instead of a “treaty.”
  • The agreement means the death of the American republic as we know it.
  • According to Hohmann, Bachmann said, everyone on earth will be given a digital identity with a QR code that will be linked to their electronic medical records, and ultimately to a digital currency that will be controlled by the UN through the WHO.
  • Hohmann added that Bachmann said, “Once you give up freedom, you don’t get it back.”

As far as I am concerned, what Hoft, Bachmann, and Hohmann said is reality, not a conspiracy theory.

(Important: Be aware that if world leaders approve the amendments to the IHRs, and they probably will, the nations will be granted a short period of time to acquire the people and equipment to put them into effect.)

Here is a link to the Hohmann article:

https://grandmageri422.me/2023/04/13/u-s-government-leading-all-nations-into-global-beast-system-that-would-require-compliance-with-digital-health-tyranny-enforced-by-u-n-world-health-organization/

Here is more evidence that the prophesied world government is near.

One, concerning the decline of America and a possible digital global currency: on Apr. 12, 2023, it was reported that the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and So. Africa) have agreed to create a new common currency, and they have scheduled a meeting in Aug. 2023 to discuss the issue.

  • First, they will start trading with each other in their own currencies.
  • Second, they will create a new common currency (the yuan or perhaps a digital currency) and start trading in that.
  • Third, after their new common currency is established, they will seek to get other nations to use it.

The goal is to improve trade among themselves and to weaken the U.S.

Two, concerning natural disasters increasing in frequency and intensity at the end of the age: Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been averaging 3.52 inches of rain in the month of April.

On Apr. 12, 2023, the city received 20 inches of rain in 12 hours.

It was characterized as an extreme, historic, record-breaking, life-threatening event.

Three, concerning corruption in the White House: on Apr. 13, 2013, it was reported that China has given records to U.S. Senate Republicans that are investigating the Bidens.

According to the report, Sen. Ron Johnson said the records show that Chinese banks gave millions of dollars to Hunter Biden.

For years, the Democrats claimed that Pres. Trump had ties with the Russians, and their claims have been proven to be false.

Now, U.S. Senate has solid evidence that the Biden family had ties with communist China, the information confirms the information on Hunter’s laptop and from other sources, but the Democrats don’t seem concerned about it.

Four, concerning the signs of the end of the age: on Apr. 10, 2023, one of America’s greatest prophecy teachers, Jan Markell, posted an article titled “The Set-Up: Ten Indicators the Hour is Late.”

Jan’s incredible list should convince anyone that knows very much about Bible Prophecy that the Tribulation Period is looming.

Jan’s Ten Indicators are bolded below (and my response is in parenthesis).

  • The world lacks a leader. (Several world leaders are now calling for a new form of leadership.)
  • The rise to prominence of a globalist outfit—the World Economic Forum (WEF)—that is paving the way for a one-world government. (Under the influence of the WEF, a group of wealthy unelected leaders has bought or seized control of several governments.)
  • The Bible prophesies a coming cashless society. (The cashless society is developing now, and it only needs to be global by the middle of the Tribulation Period.)
  • The last three years, the frightened masses chose to trust in government due to fear of a health crisis and pandemic. (Beginning with the Covid-19 pandemic, deceit is reigning all over the world.)
  • We now have artificial intelligence that is as intuitive and as intelligent as humans. (It is now possible for the False Prophet to build a statue of the Antichrist that talks.)
  • There is civil unrest and lawlessness in two-dozen nations. (Jesus said there will be distress of nations with perplexity at the end of the age.)
  • Wars and rumors of wars are stirring. (Wars and rumors of wars make the news every day.)
  • The days of Noah haunt us. (In the days of Noah, there was corruption of all flesh, and the earth was filled with corruption and violence.)
  • There is a stunning rise in darkness, as predicted in II Timothy 3:13. (Today, there is a drastic decline in adherence to Biblical truth.)
  • There is Temple fever among the religious in Israel. (Today, there is a growing desire for the orthodox Jews to rebuild the Temple.) 

Before leaving Jan’s list of indicators, Jan noted that five perfect red heifers were shipped from Texas to Israel in the fall of 2022, and she reported that four of them remain perfect enough to be sacrificed.

Five, concerning persecution increasing at the end of the age: on Apr. 13, 2023, LifeSiteNews posted an article by Jean Mondoro that said a Family Research Council (FRC) study shows that violent attacks against U.S. churches are increasing.

According to the FRC, in the last five years, there were 420 documented acts of hostility (vandalism, arson, gun incidents, hate crimes, etc.) at 397 churches in 45 different states and Washington, D.C., and these incidents are on the rise.

Jesus and other writers of Scripture reveal that the hostile acts will continue to increase, and people who become believers during the Tribulation Period will pay with their life.

But they will be raised from the dead at the Second Coming and reign with Jesus during the Millennium.

Six, concerning the Tribulation Period: Jesus said, “And except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matt. 24:22).

I have long believed that this prophecy could be fulfilled using nuclear or biological weapons.

It now seems that there is another threat.

On Apr. 17-18, 2023, Elon Musk warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has “the potential of civilization destruction.”

Seven, concerning world government: it has been my opinion for several years that the final Gentile world kingdom (Dan. 2) will have one central government with one powerful leader called the Antichrist.

But before the Antichrist rises to power, the world will be divided into ten regions or ten toes or ten groups of nations.

There will be a leader over each group for a total of ten leaders that are called the ten horns or ten kings in the Bible (Dan. 7:24; Rev. 17:12).

It has been my understanding that the globalists have a three-step plan:

  • Divide the world into ten regional trading blocks of nations (a financial or economic New World Order).
  • Change the rules to convert the ten regional trading blocks of nations into ten regional political blocks of nations (a political New World Order).
  • Merge the ten regional political blocks of nations into a one-world government.

The three nations on the North American Continent (the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) would be merged into one region patterned after the EU.

This region has been called the North American Union (NAU), and the USMCA (the U.S., Mexico, and Canada).

There are many things that I don’t have space to go into (a NAU flag, currency, etc.), but I want to briefly mention something that happened on Apr. 14, 2023.

On that day, according to the New American, “the first freight railway linking the United States, Mexico, and Canada – essentially a USMCA Super Railway” came into being, “making it a key supply chain within the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).”

In 2001, Keith Creel (the CEO that now heads up the railroad) said, “This de facto USMCA Super Railway is a major step in the globalist’s plan for a North American Union, as it further integrates a major component of the economies of all three countries along regional lines. Such regional lines result in the erosion of national sovereignty and the individual economic identity of all three countries.”

Merging the three North American nations into a regional trading block (a single economic unity) is a necessary step toward the arrival of one of the Ten Kings.

Here is a link to the article.

https://thenewamerican.com/from-vancouver-to-veracruz-final-spike-driven-for-usmca-super-railway/?mc_cid=eabaf85278&mc_eid=551904ee4c

Eight, concerning world government: it will be headed up by a Satan worshipper called the Antichrist (Rev. 13:4-8).

In a Mar. 30, 2023, article by Jon Watkins, he quoted Michael Snyder:

“Today, Satan has become one of the hottest spiritual figures in America, and that is unlikely to change any time soon.”

“The following comes from a Newsweek article entitled …The Devil is front and center in movies, TV shows, podcasts, and even children’s books. There are Satan After School Clubs, while the proliferating Satanist groups have their own political divisions.”

“On top of everything else, a major convention is coming up. It is being billed as the ‘largest Satanic gathering in history,’ and it is being held in Boston at the end of April.”

Here is a link to the article:

https://www.exposingsatanism.org/the-enemy-of-humanity-is-more-popular-than-ever/

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.

duck_daymond@yahoo.com