Situations in Need of Prayer: Lots to Report

Pestilence: There’s strong evidence that the Enterovirus D68 virus which causes fever, cough and runny noses is linked to paralysis in children in the US, Canada and Europe. This has baffled scientists, and there’s no cure. The flu this year is killing people of all ages and is still raging.

Famine: In North Korea under Socialist dictator, Kim Jong Un, hungry soldiers are raiding starving people’s fields and homes for what food they can find. Yet NBC’s Lester Holt boasted on film at a ski resort full of people in N. Korea that they’re happy and prosperous, not starving – propaganda stunts by N. Korea—and NBC.

Terrorism: Barnes & Noble, for a long time offered al-Qaeda bomb instructions as a free download on its website, only taking it down after being exposed; yet during that time when Jihad Watch, a site against terrorism, applied to sell their books, they were refused. A suicide bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan has killed over 100 and wounded 235. Last week their hotel was attacked, killing over 30 and wounding many.

War/Rumors of Wars: The US Air Force is launching its largest ever 3-week air war drills, starting Friday and concluding Feb. 16.

In Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38/39 news: The Israeli Ambassador warned the UN Security Council that Iran has 82,000 fighters in Syria, attempting to transform it into the largest military base in the world. “We are releasing this classified information because it is vital for the world to understand that if we turn a blind eye in Syria, the Iranian threat will only grow,” Danon told the Council.

Turkey’s troops are wreaking havoc in Syria, causing Syrians to flee. Erdogan is determined to quash Kurdish forces there, who are successfully fighting ISIS, which is still not completely defeated. This is creating tensions with the US, who, because of this has resumed its presence there.

People are wondering what’s really going on regarding the false missile alert in the liberal state of Hawaii and then Japan several days later. These are not buttons, but computers with failsafe procedures to prevent this. Could it be a false flag? Mainstream media rushed to claim it’s Trump’s fault for Kim Jong Un’s behavior. However, Un has long been allowed to get to the point where he is now of endangering the world.

Fire: In South Korea, over 40 people are dead, over 150 injured in a hospital fire. The six-story hospital didn’t have a sprinkler system and wasn’t considered large enough to require one by law. Just weeks ago a fire killed 29 people at a fitness center there.

Natural Disasters: There were strong earthquakes this week off the coast of Alaska, Japan, Indonesia and California (which is also having many smaller quakes). A sudden volcano explosion in Japan caused an avalanche, killing one and injuring 16. The Philippines volcano continues to pose danger, with 50,000+ people in shelters. Now it’s feared that mudslides caused by heavy rains will bury communities.

California is in danger of more wildfires starting up due to high winds. Riverside homes and businesses in Paris are on high alert, as the swollen River Seine has already caused flooding and may cause more. Also, an unusual amount of rainfall in central Israel caused serious flooding in major cities. In Capetown, South Africa which is surrounded by ocean, three years of drought has devastated water supplies. Taps are within several weeks of running dry.

Lawlessness and Violence by Parents and Children: A mother of five adopted children in Iowa was found guilty of starving three of the teens, whom she locked in a bedroom for months with no furniture, little food and no access to a bathroom. They escaped from time to time through a window to seek food from neighbors, who reported this to child welfare, as did school officials concerned about the 16-year-old. Yet child welfare did not remove the children. The 16-year-old who weighed 85 pounds died of cardiac arrest, lying in feces on the linoleum floor of the bedroom.

At Butler Intermediate School in Pennsylvania, three students aged 13 and 14 planned an attack on another student, knowing she was severely allergic to pineapple. The school doesn’t allow pineapple for that very reason. A student rubbed pineapple on her hand and deliberately high-fived the allergic classmate, sending her to the hospital.

We’ve all heard of the school shootings this week. In Kentucky, a 15-year-old shot and killed two students and wounded 18. State lawmakers want school districts to appoint campus staff members as armed guards. In Texas, a 16-year-old student shot a girl multiple times that broke up with him; she survived. He fired at the boy near her, but missed. The shooter had been removed for previous incidences of violence, but was allowed back. In New Orleans, someone in a vehicle fired at a crowd of students; no one was injured. Parents must lock up guns even if their children are mid-teens and older and they think theirs would never do such a thing. The main problem is spiritual in these last days.

In Arizona, a Mexican ex-police officer (in the country illegally as it turned out) was speeding and caused his car to crash. As a trooper who stopped to help was setting out flares, the man said something in Spanish then shot him, and then tried to beat him to death. A motorist shot the man to incapacitate him when he refused to stop beating the trooper. As the motorist tended to the trooper, the man resumed beating him, forcing the motorist to fatally shoot him. The trooper is still alive, thanks to the motorist, but suffered multiple injuries. The passenger in the car wreck later died of her injuries.

Big Brother: AT&T is arguing for a fairer standard to replace the Obama Administration’s George Soros-backed “net neutrality” rules that the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal. They say Net neutrality should also include Google, Twitter and Facebook (who censor the net, especially conservatives), and not just limit Internet Service Providers (ISP) whose major function is to connect users to the Internet.

The East German secret police agency, the Stasi, one of the most reviled and feared institutions of its Communist government, is back, “in spirit.” A new oppressive law requires social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to censor users on behalf of the government.

Persecution of Christians: In North Korea, Christian parents keep their faith a secret from their children due to fear, waiting till they’re grown to tell them. Atheists in the US are suing chief of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, due to his weekly Cabinet-level Bible studies. The Satanic Temple in Missouri is suing over a law requiring women seeking abortions to receive a booklet that says life begins at conception. The Satanists complain that it promotes Christian beliefs.

Immorality: There was little to no mention by mainstream media of the pro-life march, yet praise and much coverage of the other where there were vagina costumes, nasty drawings with the P-word, and F-words signs (a child old enough to read was seen holding an F-word sign). Town Hall reported: “Truth is always a threat to liberalism…The Women’s March, led by Muslim Linda Sarsour, who “praises and promotes” the most oppressive form of patriarchy humanity has ever known—Islamic Sharia, had wall-to-wall front-page coverage…oh, the irony!”

A German children’s channel for ages 3 to 13 encouraged child marriage between an adult migrant and a naïve German teen girl. Then they aired a segment showing three young migrant boys how to open a bra. You would think they’d be tired of all the migrant rapes and murders. Germany ought to consider removing the original “Seat of Satan” altar and the “Ishtar Gate of Babylon” which they moved there in pieces a century ago, reconstructing them and placing them in their Pergamon Museum.

Apostasy: At a rapidly growing number of proudly “gay-friendly” Catholic parishes, same-sex couples exercise leadership roles and receive Communion with encouragement from priests. The LGBT agenda is also being promoted at Catholic schools and colleges. As we know, the same can be said of some mainstream Protestant churches and also in preschools through college.

At United Church of Canada, “minister” Greta Vosper is a self-proclaimed atheist. The spokesperson said: “We’ve moved away from language that references God to create an environment without barriers…Services are themed around love, justice, compassion, care, responsibility and living in a right relationship with ourselves.” The committee mostly agreed she wasn’t fit to be the minister, but atheists and agnostics in the congregation support her.

Love and compassion? Without the Truth of God’s Word, it is neither.

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (1 Tim. 4:1-2).

Jude 1 in the Bible speaks of such times as these with complainers and mockers walking according to their own lusts, using swelling or flattering words to gain advantage, and those who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality, denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. It tells us to witness to others, showing compassion to some, while with others do so with fear, lest we get involved in the sin that infects their lives. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1&version=KJV

Situations in Need of Prayer This Week

Pray for the US: The government shut down because liberal politicians are holding out for policies which take the nation down rather than contribute to it. But that’s the goal. Illegal aliens boarded planes this week to be quietly redistributed across the country on private flights paid for by US taxpayers. Another reason globalists want to take down the US is they don’t want a Judeo-Christian nation. It’s God they’re really against. The Freedom from Religion Foundation is hounding the Trump administration for more information on its Bible study sessions. We need to pray for the document to be revealed that supposedly will expose the traitors and put an end to the “witch hunt” against our president.

Pray for People to Wake up to the Perils of Socialism

In socialist Venezuela, its citizens have resorted to buying and selling items of garbage as a means of survival as the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.

Pray for the Unborn and Those Fighting for Them: 22 States filed a Supreme Court brief on behalf of pregnancy centers forced to promote abortion. It started with a California law requiring these centers to show a message promoting abortion services. Since then, similar laws and challenges to those laws have been cropping up all across the country.

In Canada, church groups must support abortion as part of their “core mandate” in order to receive summer student job grants, says Canada’s employment minister, Patricia Hajdu. She added that employers also must attest in writing that they support abortion and transgender “rights.” Canada’s boy leader Justin Trudeau said pro-life groups are “not in line’ with Canadian government or society. The Canada Summer Job website says it doesn’t want taxpayers’ money going to groups who don’t endorse individual “human rights” to abortion.

Pray for Children, Youths in High School and Young Adults in Colleges Whose Minds are Being Destroyed:
13 rescued siblings aged 2 to 29 were subjected to horrible living conditions all their lives by their own parents. Pray for their well-being, and also that the liberal left won’t be able to use this situation to stop all homeschooling so they can indoctrinate all children into their agenda.

In Massachusetts, the Jewish havdalah ceremony (in which blessings are recited and a prayer acknowledges the end of the Sabbath day, entreating God to grant a spiritually wholesome week) was given a new twist. Lander Grinspoon Academy had “Sparkle Havdalah” supported by local Jewish organizations. Their havdalah featured Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program launched in California in 2015 to give kids “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

Spotlighted were the books “Sparkle Boy” and “Heather Has Two Mommies.” The co-sponsor of this event (and also another Drag Queen Story Hour at the local library) says it aligns with “progressive” values of the local Jewish community and celebrates being against rigid ideas of what gender should be.

Abercrombie Kids proudly launched a gender-inclusive children’s fashion line called the “Everybody Collection.”

Teens are taking seriously the internet “Tide Challenge,” eating Tide pods laundry detergent, whose ingredients are highly-toxic when eaten. The pods are colorful and look like candy. At least 10 deaths have been linked to ingesting these pods so far: Two toddlers and eight seniors with dementia.

George Mason High School in Falls Church, VA held a school-wide assembly featuring transgender crusader and Washington Post reporter, Amy Nutt, to lecture students. She told students their gender is “assigned at birth” by people who might get it wrong, and toddlers can be transgender. She said gender is a spectrum and everyone must get comfortable with new gender language that is changing every day, adding that asking a biological boy to use the teachers’ rather than the girls’ restroom is “bullying.”

Georgetown University, ostensibly a “Catholic” school, will offer a housing complex starting this fall for homosexual, transgender and “questioning” students.

Weak Men and Haughty Women

Besides Facebook intending to weed out news stories it doesn’t approve of, Google forces liberal attitudes on its employees by having them attend “diversity training.” At one of the “groupthink” meetings, employees were told that Google has fewer female engineers due to “male bias” and how it needs to achieve 50/50 parity. An employee was fired when he asked on his questionnaire how Google could make 50% of its engineering hires female when only 20% of computer engineering graduates are women.

The non-liberal female lawyer suing on his behalf said, “They cannot achieve their goal legally by quotas, by putting men down, by shaming them, by refusing to promote them, by booing them in companywide meetings, which has been done…” She referred to the training sessions as “reeducation camps” which are associated with “Communist” regimes. “They’re what totalitarian systems resort to in order to dictate the inner thoughts of the unfortunate people who are unable to escape them.”

Feminists returned to the streets this weekend, marching for female empowerment and a lasting movement that will elect more women to government office. Gatherings took place across the U.S. and in other countries. Organizers strove for greater inclusion this year with “transgender female” speakers, women in the US illegally, sex workers and the formerly incarcerated. One woman speaker from last year’s march boasted that the gathering in Chicago prompted Muslim women to run for state Senate and Congress. “It was incredible. We realized how powerful this thing could be,” she said.

Isaiah 3 describes the downfall of a nation, which has always followed the same pattern. Due to the people turning against God and into rampant sin, the men became either unable or unwilling to lead, and “haughty” women ruled over them. Haughty is defined as “blatantly and disdainfully proud: having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt.”

“I will make mere youths their officials…Their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! …They will be paid back for what their hands have done. Youths oppress my people, women rule over them (haughty women–Isaiah 3:16). My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path. The Lord…rises to judge the people.” – from Isaiah chapter 3