Increasing Birth Pangs

Natural disasters: The latest update on the situation in Hawaii’s Big Island is disheartening following a volcanic eruption and a series of earthquakes (including a 6.9, the largest earthquake to hit Hawaii in over 40 years): The over 1,700 people evacuated due to the threat posed by lava and toxic gas pouring out of vents that opened miles away from the summit still cannot go back even briefly. New vents have opened after another earthquake on Sunday (4.0), and officials don’t know how long this will continue. Those who didn’t take pets to shelters with them are worried about them. There’s no news on whether those who chose to stay behind have since been able to evacuate.

In Poland, one miner is dead and three are still missing after a 3.4 earthquake caused a coal mine to partially collapse.

In southwestern Pakistan near Quetta, twenty-three miners were killed and 11 wounded after gas explosions tore through two neighboring coal mines.

In Canada, the Saint John River rose to levels not seen in 45 years, and officials worry the worst of the resulting flooding is still to come. Upwards of 1,000 people have evacuated so far.

In Ankara, Turkey, flash floods caused by heavy rain took only nine minutes to wreak havoc. There were dramatic scenes of drivers trying to escape from their vehicles as cars were being swept away by flood waters. Ankara’s Mayor Mustafa Tuna said it was “a natural disaster like never before.”

In India, many were killed or injured as a huge dust storm and heavy rain swept through.

Nation (ethnic) against nation (ethnic): Speaking of India, heartbreaking stories are being reported regarding its severe rape and murder crisis (40% of these crimes are committed against children). India’s culture tends to abort baby girls; therefore it has a lot more males. The country is 80% Hindu, 14% Muslim, and both are locked in a power struggle with Muslims currently on the losing end. Neither cultures treat females with respect.

Pestilence: In the US, 26 states have now been affected from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce. The contagion has sickened 121 people. One has died and four have developed kidney failure.

Drug and alcohol addiction: In California, highway workers are worried about their health, as they now have to pick up used drug syringes and feminine products, urine, and feces around so-called sanctuary (safe city) encampments. Drug users shoot up right out in the open in these places and in transit stations. And the population, which includes school children, is exposed to this and has walk through it daily.

A 60 Minutes investigation revealed that nearly one in four Australian women between age 35 and 59 drink excessively – far more than Australian men. Intoxicated mothers then get behind the wheel endangering themselves, other drivers and their children. 5,500 people in Australia die of alcohol-related illness and injury in Australia each year, besides the highway deaths. One of the leading causes of death among middle-aged women, suicide, is increasingly linked to alcohol consumption. Dr. Janice Withnall explained the reasons here.

Persecution of Christians and Jews: The Satanic Temple is threatening to sue the state of Arkansas over the installation of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol.

A Michigan township changed its zoning laws to prevent a Christian school from entering the community, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case against this action.

In a meeting with Nigerian Pres. Muhammad Buhari, Pres. Trump brought up the serious persecution of Christians in Nigeria, saying “we can’t allow this to happen.” Days before Buhari’s visit, 19 Christians were killed after a Muslim opened fire in a church. Buhari’s Fulani kin are responsible for hundreds of deaths already this year, attacking villages and forcing thousands to flee homes and farms.

Israel is persecuted for defending itself against terrorism, yet those who mean to do them harm are defended as the victims. These so-called “victims” are teaching their children to kill Jews and Christians.  Here’s a video.

And here’s a video at a mosque in Canada where children are practicing beheading non-Muslims. Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau has a long record of supporting the Islamist cause.

In Egypt, Coptic Christians are being persecuted. One resident said, “Many Muslim young men from our village and villages nearby gathered in front of the church building and began pelting it with stones and bricks while shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ (Allah is greater), and ‘We don’t want a church in our village.’” Windows and a door were smashed and some of the church’s contents destroyed. They also pelted Coptic-owned houses next to the building.

“Palestinian” President M. Abbas’ blamed the Jews for the Holocaust, causing a backlash from international leaders. With the rampant anti-Semitism practiced in some of those countries, why are they suddenly condemning Abbas’ remarks? It’s because they want the two-state “peace” agreement to be reached. Some Arab nations are even telling Abbas that he must sign the upcoming peace proposal from the US or step down.

Doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1):  In San Francisco, California hundreds flocked to a cathedral’s ‘Beyoncé Mass,’ blending her music with scripture readings and communion. Beyoncé has some of the most X-rated song lyrics ever heard.

At a Vatican conference, invited pop star Katy Perry joined a discussion on “Impacting Children’s Health through Meditation Globally” with her mentor, Bob Roth, CEO of David Lynch Foundation. Roth is also mentor to Oprah and Dr. Oz on transcendental meditation. Roth’s organization gave out “meditating eye” charm bangles and a book promoting transcendental meditation at the beginning of the conference. In Katy Perry’s “Bon Appétit” music video, she promotes cannibalism (Marina Abramovic style), with clear connections to occult practices of certain Democrats in D.C.

So-called “artist” Marina Abramovic’s spirit cooking, cannibalistic art and performances that these politicians and celebrities flock to are the stuff of nightmares! So is the “art” that DC lobbyist Tony Podesta and his brother (Hillary’s campaign manager) John Podesta collect. An article a while back spoke of DC Democrat politicians coming to visit Tony’s house to see it. It’s full of paintings, etc., of half nude children—even being held in bondage, and demonic sculptures that, once seen, you can never un-see.

A study released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that a majority of religious groups support same-sex marriage.

A group of Catholic bishops called Pres. Trump’s travel ban on Muslim countries known for terrorism “blatant religious discrimination.” Yet when Obama issued a travel ban on these same countries, there was silence. The RCC’s catechism #841 regards Muslims as first in the Abrahamic faith that worships God. Yet the God of the Bible is not worshiped in Islam, which began in the 7^th century AD. It’s the RCC that practices religious discrimination against Protestants. Its Canon #9 curses anyone who says Christians are justified by grace through faith in Christ alone.

Leftist indoctrination and destabilization agendas—plural: The globalist Marxist pope is calling for worldwide gun confiscation, except for the UN.

The last stages in the fall of nations have always followed the same pattern we see in Isaiah 3. And the effeminizing of men is one of them. Brown University in Rhode Island says it’s “investing in creating safe spaces for men to unpack all of the things they have learned about masculinity and what it means to be a man.” Their goal is to “help those socialized as men to unlearn some of the notions” regarding gender.

The University of Texas is treating masculinity as a mental health problem. The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.” The program argues that men suffer when they’re told to “act like a man” or when encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”

Penn State University’s Outing Club (after 98 years on campus and despite zero injuries over the past four years) is being banned from going on university-sanctioned outings because the school says it’s too risky. Past events have included hiking, canoeing, kayaking, trail building and camping.

Dr. Singh, a clinical technician who works for the U.K.’s government-run health care system, National Health Service (NHS), which fought and won in court to end little Alfie’s life, considers the starving to death of Alfie not killing him, just “redirecting care.”

Facebook has enlisted leftist Eric Holder’s law firm to “advise” on bias against conservatives. That’s enlisting wolves to guard the sheep. But it’s what we’ve learned to expect from the left.

From the Geller Report: “AmazonSmile offers charitable donations only for leftists. The American Freedom Defense Initiative, The Alliance for Defending Freedom, and Jihad Watch are registered 501c3 organizations, yet they’re banned from AmazonSmile. Amazon clearly only considers Leftist charitable organizations to be charitable organizations at all. This is all part of the ongoing attempt to drive all those who dissent from the far-left agenda entirely out of the public square.”

Also from the Geller Report: “CNN’s list of “25 influential American Muslims” is a rogue’s gallery of Jew-haters and jihad enablers. Where is CNN’s 25 influential American Jews list? Its 25 influential American Christians list? And the titles they choose for each person show CNN’s subversive perspective… Couldn’t CNN have come up with a list of 25 patriotic American Muslims who are actually contributing positively to society?”

On May Day, also National Worker’s Rights Day, Anarcho-Communists made mayday mayhem in several countries. The riots in France were the most violent. To learn about the origins and current practices on May Day, including this “workers’ rights” day, see “The Very Scary Month of May” at raptureready.com.

In San Diego, California, MAAC Charter School in Chula Vista (chartered by the Sweetwater Union High School District), a huge mural was painted on school property depicting an Aztec warrior spearing Pres. Trump’s decapitated, bloody head. This monstrosity had to have taken quite a while to complete, so school officials had to be aware of it. Now they’re facing outrage and controversy over it—rightfully so.

In the US, due to limited funds, Health and Human Services is unable to keep up with minors that smugglers brought to this country literally en masse from Central America during the Obama administration in 2013, that were then placed with sponsors. From Oct. to Dec. 2017, check-up calls to 7,635 minors by HHS found that nearly 1,500 of them are missing. Slave trade? Sex trafficking?

Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs, Annika Strandhäll, blamed the country’s elderly rather than the massive influx of Muslim migrants for overloading the healthcare system. I’m sure those now elderly citizens of Sweden had money taken out of their paychecks during their working years to pay for future senior citizen care, just as they do in the US when Medicare is taken out of workers’ pay. So much for honoring the elderly as the Bible commands. Globalists would rather they die to decrease the human population.

In socialist Venezuela, its starving citizens are faced with a staggering inflation rate that is already by far the world’s highest, and it keeps going up. It spiked from 4,966% to nearly 18,000% percent in just March and April. “There is no difference between communism and socialism except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide” – Ayn Rand.

Stuart Varney speaks about the evils of Socialism on a Fox News Business Report here. He’s lived under its policies before and knows what he’s talking about.

China’s leader is pushing Marxism as the true path. Of course, this agenda is also being pushed in Europe and the US under the guise of democracy. As I’ve said, Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are in the same family.

In Finland, in a case that has triggered public outrage, a top Finnish court upheld a ruling that sex between a Muslim migrant and a 10-year-old girl didn’t constitute rape.

The “Peace” Proposal: Reports are saying that US officials told Israel’s Defense Minister Liberman during his visit to Washington last week that the Trump administration will ask Israel to withdraw from four Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, which will likely become the capital of a future “Palestinian state.” The Trump administration is denying these reports, saying the plan is not complete but in its final stages. Supposedly, the plan will be revealed shortly after the May 14 opening of the US embassy on Israel’s 70^th anniversary. The president said he may attend the ceremony.

Wars and rumors of wars: In Israel, “Things are about to get biblical,” Rabbi Winston said. “Some people thought the Bible was dead…That is clearly not the case… soon that will be clear to everyone.” He believes Iran’s military presence is the “match” that will set off an even greater explosion in Syria.

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has been authorized to declare war in extreme situations after only consulting the defense minister rather than waiting on a cabinet vote.

In Israel, the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee member Nachman Shai said, “Israel clearly senses we are headed toward a new battle, liable to unexpected dimensions.” The intelligence news service, DEBKAfile, said Israel “expects war at any moment, but no one knows where, when, or what form” it will take.

We’re all aware of last Sunday’s airstrikes on military bases in Syria using bunker-buster bombs. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility; however, reports of those in the know such as Behold Israel’s Amir Tsarfati said missiles had recently been delivered from Iran to those locations and placed underground. Nothing much gets past Israel, if anything. Their intelligence is outstanding.

Israel’s PM Netanyahu just revealed that Israel’s Mossad was able to get inside Iran and take many thousands of documents, etc., that reveal Iran’s continuing intent to develop nuclear weapons (despite the Obama administration’s worthless Iran nuclear deal that only served to net Iran tons of money—the nation that has constantly shouted death to Israel and America). Yet world leaders are trying to talk Pres. Trump into continuing with it instead of changing it or scrapping it and imposing sanctions on the terrorist country. Even Iran’s citizens are trying to rise up against this evil regime.

Syrian regime forces are taking over the last pocket of resistance in southern Damascus.

Hamas’s armed wing, said it holds Israel responsible for an explosion that killed several of its members on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and vowed to exact revenge. Israeli officials denied the allegation.

In recent days, “Palestinian” protesters have used flaming objects attached to kites to set fire to agricultural land just over the Gaza border in Israel. In preparation for Friday’s new attacks (that have been going on since March 30), Gaza’s flaming-kite squadrons built hundreds of flimsy-framed sails with tails meant to carry incendiary devices, such as rags soaked in gasoline. Their plan was to fly them in swarms into Israel with the goal of igniting dry fields of rural communities on the other side of the border fence. They counted on help from the heavy heat wave to fan the fires. But the plan largely failed because of a “quirk of nature” – the wind blew the other way. Hmm…

In another ironic twist, during Friday’s mayhem directed at Israel, the Gaza protesters crazily set fire to the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom goods crossing, igniting gas and fuel pipes that serve the 2 million residents of Gaza. Wonder what could have made them do that?

The US Navy said it will re-establish its Second Fleet in the Atlantic, a response to Russia’s stepped up naval activity in recent years and its increasing aggression. NATO is also planning to set up a new Joint Forces Command covering much of the same region.

In the prophesied rise of the Kings of the East, China is continuing to build up its military. It has just installed cruise missiles on South China Sea outposts.

Matthew 24:6-12: “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars…For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

In John 14:27 Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

May Day “Mayday”

Tragedies This Week: In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a four-year-old child was swept out to sea when a sudden wave hit as he was walking with his mother along the beach in shallow water.

Ten students from a pre-army school in Israel died after being swept away in a flash flood. Serious flooding was reported in several parts of Israel as the mega-storm ripped through.

23-month-old, Alfie Evans, whose case garnered the world’s attention, has died. A British court ordered Alfie removed from life support against the parents’ wishes and refused to let them take him to Italy to explore alternative treatments. Alfie breathed on his own for five days before passing away.

Indoctrination of a Generation: Parents in the US, Canada, Australia, and UK pulled their children out of schools on Monday to protest pornographic, gender-bending sex ed curricula conducted and promoted by taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood. Parents at a Chicago high school were successful after a sex ed program they warned would promote casual hook-up sex and pornography to students was postponed.

Democrat legislators in California have sought to undermine homeschoolers’ autonomy with intrusive legislation. However, protestors came by hundreds, perhaps thousands from all over to protest the latest and most outrageous homeschooling bill introduced (AB 2756). Homeschoolers won; no committee member was willing to make a motion for a vote. Fight for your rights…for the children!

The University of Utah installed a “Cry Closet” safe space with stuffed animals for stressed-out students during exam days. Many have bought into the Communist plan to create weaklings to destabilize the US.

Use of technology such as touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children’s finger muscles from developing so they can hold and move a pencil correctly. Young children need foundational muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting, sticking, and pulling toys and ropes that give them the dexterity needed. Also, children aren’t learning to read analog clocks. UK teaches say it’s causing stress for teens as they prepare for exams, so digital clocks will be installed in exam halls.

A Florida high school is facing backlash after a sexually explicit homework assignment. See here.

Some Christians are objecting to a yoga mindfulness program begun in yet another Elementary school, this one in Maryland. One said, “There are spirits invited in by focusing on things not of God… there is an unholy Spirit behind it…” She’s right. Read about the Kundalini spirit on Wikipedia, which is a liberal site but goes into detail about this. Also…

George P. Alexander, Ph.D., who taught World Religions at Biola University, was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in India, the birthplace of Hinduism and yoga. He explained that yoga poses are actually offerings to the 330 million Hindu gods. “Many Westerners who practice yoga today are unaware that the physical positions assumed in yoga symbolize a spiritual act: worshiping one of the many Hindu gods,” Dr. Alexander said. Watch this video from an ex yoga instructor. Also read this.

Persecution: This one could fall under several categories, but we’ll place it here. A play making the rounds in Europe depicts a blond Jesus raping a Muslim woman in yet more deliberate incitement against Christianity, shaming of Western nations, and misplaced claims of victimhood.

The Christian Concordia Publishing House was told by Google to remove references to Jesus and/or the Bible in all of its ads or use a different ad product.

Despite dismissals by “fact-checker” Snopes, both a lawmaker and an LGBT activist admitted a proposed California state bill targets pastors and members of the faith community. Article and videos here. It could end up banning the sale of Bibles in book stores.

Turkish authorities recently seized about 50 properties that belonged to the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Muslims, Hindus and Christians including women and children are horribly persecuted by the Buddhist government in Myanmar. The stories coming from there are heartbreaking. While we Christians question the globalist- as well as Islamic agenda that sends those who are almost all young, able-bodied Muslim men to Western nations, we are against persecution. And we pray for the lost to turn to Christ, the Only One who can save souls.

Depravity: A “transgender” inmate (whose prison time includes 60 infractions such as sex acts and threatening staff) is suing, claiming he/she isn’t allowed to practice witchcraft properly such as having a vegan diet (including special foods for certain festivals); necessities like Wicca’s Book of Shadows, wand, Tarot cards, black robe, etc.; is being restricted to the 8 Wicca annual festivals; and isn’t allowed to light a fire during such festivals such as Beltane (April 30/May 1^st).

Wiccan Beltane is akin to the Germanic/English May Day festival, both in focus on fertility and rituals like maypole dancing. Videos of Wiccan Beltane festivals remind one of lyrics to Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven including “It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.” Plant alluded to “automatic writing” by an entity when he began writing lyrics to that song. The group was in an old Victorian mansion at the time. “I was holding a pencil and paper,” Plant recalled. “All of a sudden my hand was writing out the words… I just sat there and looked at them, and almost leapt out of my seat!”

In England, three former Telford lawmakers, including one who oversaw the social services department during the Muslim rape-gang epidemic, have been exposed as pedophiles. The uncle of a grooming gang victim said, “We always wanted to know why social services didn’t get involved in dealing with Lucy’s abuse.” The home of the whistleblower who was due to give names of men involved in the sex ring to police, was targeted by arson to shut her up, and it worked. Other threats have been made by men who groomed her and other girls from the age of 12.

Natural Disasters: On the day Iran threatened Israel’s ultimate demise, a massive sandstorm engulfed the center of Iran with 60 mph sand-laden winds. Iranian media called it “apocalyptic.” Two days later, as Israel celebrated Independence Day, a 5.5 earthquake hit Iran a few miles from its nuclear power plant. No one died but was it a warning? “Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest…” (Isaiah 29:6).

A 5.2 earthquake struck Turkey, damaging buildings. 39 people were reported to have slight injuries, which is surprising considering the damage.

The “Peace” Plan: US Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt said (of an Israeli-‘Palestinian’ peace deal), “I ultimately believe there may be a clear path toward peace,” adding that it will be “up to the parties themselves” to negotiate and conclude an accord (Daniel 9:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Nation (Ethnic) Against Nation (Ethnic): Part of the Marxist-Socialist-Communist agenda is “divide and conquer.” A film coming out on July 4^th titled The First Purge pushes racial division in America.

White farmers in South Africa continue to be injured and killed as their farms are taken. This week a woman was shot dead and her British brother-in-law tied and beaten during a raid on their farm by a gang who said they ‘hate whites.’ South Africa should learn from what happened in Zimbabwe after white farmers were exiled, some even killed. Since then agricultural production dropped dramatically and the nation struggled to feed itself. Now Zimbabwe urges white farmers to come back.

Lawlessness: Latin America has suffered over 2.5 million murders since the start of this century. “The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking,” says a report by a Brazil-based Institute. In Mexico, some 7,667 people were killed in the first three months of 2018, up 20% from the same period last year, making it the most violent year in two decades.

Anti-Semitism: Leaders in Brooklyn’s Jewish community say bias attacks are happening more frequently. It’s increasing rapidly in the world. Even France may soon have no Jews left due to the rise in anti-Semitism and attacks by Islamists.

Perils of Voting for Socialism: Venezuelan law prohibits all gun sales except to government entities. The penalty for illegally selling/carrying a firearm is prison up to 20 years. Since April 2017 at least 163 protesters against poverty-stricken Venezuela’s oppressive regime have been murdered by the Maduro dictatorship. “Venezuela is on the verge of imploding,” Columbia’s President Santos said, hoping the implosion will be peaceful; “otherwise, an avalanche of more Venezuelans will come to Colombia.”

Pestilence: A new exotic tick could be a problem in New Jersey. Efforts to wipe it out failed.

The Romaine lettuce food poisoning outbreak is spreading with 98 people sick in 22 states. An unusually high number (46) have been hospitalized, including 10 with kidney failure.

Drugs: Shocking video in San Francisco, California, one of the busiest rapid transit stations, showed junkies shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by; others slumped along filthy corridors.

Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Various research institutes have already developed skin-applied electronics. Now researchers have developed a method of 3D-printing custom electronics directly onto the skin. They are “excited about the potential…”

The Army Research Laboratory is building a “self-aware” robot with advanced machine-learning capabilities. The material used to build them is so lightweight and malleable that soldiers will be able to “print” the robots on the battlefield, then control them with controllers that send electric currents through the materials. These flexible AI’s could probably squeeze under doors to find people.

The US’ biggest seller of police body cameras convened regarding ethics and expansion of AI, a major step toward facial-recognition technology to police forces nationwide. And Google engineers are developing a system capable of isolating voices out of a crowd.

Global Government Agenda and Last Days Traitors: The globalist agenda involves schemes designed to confuse the masses with crisis until they end up asking for more centralization and less freedom.

US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put out a statement to memorialize Earth Day, warning that “global leadership is needed” to “combat the growing climate crisis.” And the EU will cut funds to patriotic nations and allocate cash based on EU values of accepting mass migration.

CBS All Access streamed an episode of The Good Fight in which a handgun-wielding anti-President Trump character said, “We need to assassinate the president” and spoke of “regime change.”

When Hillary was running for president, a high-ranking Justice Dept. official angrily demanded that Andrew McCabe (when he was FBI director) shut down the Clinton Foundation probe. McCabe is under fire for a number of reasons right now, as is Comey. The deep state keeps digging pits for others and falling in instead. The House Intel investigation has concluded there was no Trump Russian collusion during the 2016 election, but Marxist Dems and RINO’s keep digging. “Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him” (Proverbs 26:27).

WikiLeaks is seeking donations to be able to countersue against a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), who is suing @WikiLeaks and @JulianAssange for revealing how the DNC rigged the Democratic primaries. Wikileaks said, “We’ve never lost a publishing case and discovery is going to be amazing fun.”

George Soros News This Week: The House Intelligence Committee’s just-released report reveals an ongoing, private investigation into Trump-Russia claims funded with $50 million supplied by Soros and several wealthy donors from California and New York.

The anti-Trump “Tax” protest where Maxine Waters led the crowd in an “Impeach 45″ chant was an event sponsored by the communist Soros. The large group from Central America claiming to be seeking asylum has been reorganized by Democrat operatives and Soros-funded NGOs to again invade the US southern border. An open borders group that has benefitted from US taxpayer dollars and is funded by Soros launched a smartphone application to help illegal immigrants avoid federal authorities.

Former president Jimmy Carter, an anti-Semite, has been using taxpayer funding to provide support to international terrorist groups, including Hamas.

A bill to criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM) in Maine was squashed by all House Democrats (except one) due to political correctness and misplaced concerns about so-called Islamophobia. The vote ironically occurred during the “Week of the Young Child.”

Germany’s Angela Merkel promotes mass Muslim migration of young, able-bodied men as a good thing for the economy. However, a government report found that “asylum seekers” were behind over 90% percent of the increase in violent crimes in Lower Saxony, with similar statistics in other regions. As of Dec. 2017, an estimated 600,000 able-bodied asylum seekers in Germany were on the welfare dole. Meanwhile, poverty in Germany, especially among elderly pensioners, has reached a historic high.

Merkel does not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and said her country will not move its embassy there. She wants a “Palestinian” State within Israel’s biblical heartland. Merkel also opposes Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria and wants the worthless Iran nuclear deal to stay as it is. God curses nations that are against Israel, but she and others like her must not care.

A liberal Associated Press article suggests that criticizing journalists is “hate speech.” Yet the globalist bought-and-paid for mainstream media spews hatred of conservative views and of Pres. Trump.

The leaders of Belgium’s Islam Party want to turn Belgium into an Islamic State. They call it “Islamist democracy” and have set a target date of 2030.

Wars and rumors of wars: We could sum up this section by just saying everybody is threatening everybody; however, since all of these threats relate to end-times Bible prophecy (Isaiah 17; Ezekiel 38-39; Zechariah 12 and 14; Joel 3; ), they bear mentioning here.

The former chief of Israel Defense Forces intelligence believes the upcoming month of May could be the most dangerous Israel has faced since before the 1967 Six-Day War. The ceremony celebrating the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem will take place May 14, and Pres. Trump says he may attend. The Gazan so-called march of return is scheduled to reach its peak May 15, at which time protesters hope to break though Israel’s security barrier. (May 14, 1948 is when Israel was reborn as a nation as prophesied in the Bible; the next day, May 15, it was attacked by five neighboring Arab nations. Israel won through a miraculous intervention by God.)

Due to more countries following Pres. Trump’s lead, deciding to move their embassies to Jerusalem, Israel’s Construction Minister Yoav Gallant instructed his top officials to begin planning a new quarter for the embassies. Gallant said he may decide to call it Trump Town. M.Abbas vowed he won’t let anyone declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and won’t allow any country to move its embassy there before there’s a “Palestinian” solution.

Hundreds of rioters tried to enter Israeli territory Friday, throwing explosives, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails and stones at the fence and trying to set it on fire. IDF forces used crowd dispersal measures and live fire to block the attempts. The protests took place in five spots along the border.

The Syrian army bombarded an enclave in Damascus on Monday as Assad seeks to regain all ground near the capital. Russia threatened to supply Syria with S-300 anti-aircraft defense systems “soon” and warns Israel that it would “suffer catastrophic consequences” if it attacks the system. The system would likely be deployed to cover Damascus and the regime’s airfields.

Israel’s Ambassador Danon said, “There are over 80,000 Islamist extremists from all over the Middle East in Syria under Iran’s control.” He showed a satellite photo to the UN Security Council of an Iranian base near Damascus. He indicated Israel would take military action to prevent Iran from getting nukes.

Iran’s Brigadier General Hossein Salami said its Islamic Republic is ready to attack Israel should it continue to interfere with Iran’s efforts to establish a firm military foothold in Syria. Israel’s Defense Secretary Liberman said, “If Iran attacks Tel Aviv, Israel will strike Tehran and destroy any Iranian military facility in Syria that threatens Israel, at any cost.”

US Secretary of Defense Mattis said a military conflict between Iran and Israel is very likely due to Iran’s military buildup in Syria and its shipping of advanced missiles to Hezbollah. “I can see how it might start, but I am not sure when or where,” he said.

No one should be fooled the North Korea leader’s sudden announcement that their nuclear tests would be halted. It’s not just because of crippling sanctions the US imposed. It’s also because the mountain core collapsed from all the nuclear tests and bomb blasts, and further tests would cause complete collapse and create an environmental disaster.

Pres. Trump said he will not renew “the worst deal ever negotiated” with Iran unless European signatories can “fix the terrible flaws” of the deal by May 12. Iran is threatening the US if it doesn’t continue the deal. Ali Fadavi, head of the Iranian navy, says Iran has more going on than the US knows. He said, “They will definitely figure it out when their ships are sunk, or when they find themselves in a catastrophic situation.” Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei called on all Muslim nations to “unite against America and other enemies.”

UN Food Program official David Beasley warns that various jihadist factions are partnering to destabilize a region of Africa that will be disastrous for Europe. “They… continue to infiltrate and destabilize in the hope of creating migration into Europe where they can infiltrate and cause chaos.” Beasley warns that the Europe migration problem resulting from a nation of 20 million like Syria due to destabilization and conflict pales in comparison to this region of 500 million people being destablized. He called for Europe and the world to wake up!

“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof” (Romans 13:11-14).