The Prophecy Update Newsletter - 10/21/24

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Oct 21, 2024

ISRAEL AT WAR!!! Day 380 - PRAY!!!

Pray For Israel — Psalm 122:6-8, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee."

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In Today’s Newsletter…

Not An Isolated Incident
On Nuking Nuclear Iran
Prophecy Update Videos
Recommended Reading
In Opposition to Israel, China Seeks to Broker Palestinian Control Over Post War Gaza Strip
“The Epitome of Evil” Is Running Operations Out of Government Facilities “Established to Provide Assistance to Migrants”
Daily Jot: Sukkot’s practical and prophetic meaning to Christians
Daily Devotion: The Heart Is Deceitful
Prophecy Update News Headlines

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Not An Isolated Incident

By Daymond Duck - https://www.raptureready.com/2024/10/19/not-an-isolated-incident-by-daymond-duck/

On Oct. 7, 2024, one year after Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported that the Jewish Institute for National Security of America released a letter signed by 85 retired U.S. generals and admirals that says:

The war that the Iranian axis launched a year ago is not just a war against Israel, nor is it being fought only in the Middle East.
There should be no daylight between our two countries (Israel and the U.S.).
The United States should fully stand by Israel, including supplying it expeditiously with the critical weaponry it needs to fight this common battle against the Iranian axis.
7 is not an isolated incident but one front in a much larger global civilizational struggle.
There should be no ceasefire until Israel’s operations have succeeded in creating the conditions necessary for its citizens to return to their homes to live in peace and security.
So, too, should the United States arm and assist Israel as it responds to Iran’s latest attack against it.

It seems to me that a letter signed by 85 retired U.S. generals and admirals who believe that the national security of America is at stake should not go unnoticed.

According to them (and I agree), the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel was not an isolated incident or just an attack on Israel; it is part of a much larger global struggle (my note: part of an effort by radical Islamic terrorists to create a one-world government and religion under a Shiite Muslim ruler).

(My opinion: Israel – the so-called Little Satan – is not just fighting for its existence. It is fighting for the existence of the U.S. – the so-called Great Satan – and the rest of the world.)

(My opinion: Every nation on earth will soon lose their national sovereignty, but not to Iran or a Shiite Muslim ruler.)

Here are some recent reports that seem to indicate that the end of the age is close:

One, on Oct. 8, 2024, Ynetnews.com reported that a member of one of the hostage families said we are still living in unprecedented times:

Nearly 100,000 Israelis are still evacuated from their homes, particularly in the north, where the situation is concerning, living in temporary accommodation. Their lives are still in flux, and their futures are uncertain. Our reservists, still fighting or stationed far from home, endure the strain of extended separation from their homes and loved ones.
The atrocities committed by the terrorists last year on Oct. 7 defy imagination. The human rights violations from that day alone encompass a terrifying spectrum: sexual violence, torture, and the burning of people of all ages.
The Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is accusing Israel of deliberately starving or killing civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The UN Special Rapporteur is blaming Israel.
The UN General Assembly refuses to condemn Hamas for anything.

(My opinion: Iran financed the Hamas and Hezbollah attacks on Israel, but the corrupt UN is blaming it on Israel.)

TWO, on Oct. 10, 2024, it was reported that the Biden administration asked Saudi Arabia to assure Iran that the U.S. will not join an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.

Three, on Oct. 11, 2024, Israel National News reported that:

Iran warned Israel that it will attack Israel’s civilian infrastructure if Israel retaliates for the 180 missiles that Iran recently fired at Israel.
Iran has warned Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar that Iran will retaliate against them if they allow U.S. or Israeli planes to use their airspace or bases in their countries to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities or oil wells.
The Arab nations have notified the U.S. that they do not want the U.S. to use their airspace or planes that are on bases in their nations.
Biden opposes an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and he prefers that Israel will choose targets other than Iran’s oil fields.

(More: On Oct. 13, 2024, World Israel News reported that there are many terrorist sympathizers in the Biben administration, and Israel is hesitant to provide the U.S. with details of its planned retaliation over concern that Biden or some of his people will sabotage Israel’s operation by leaking Israel’s plans to Iran. It is something that Obama’s people did when he was president.)

(More: On Oct. 14, 2024, it was reported that the U.S. is deploying THAAD – Terminal High Altitude Area Defense – missiles to Israel and up to 100 U.S. troops to man them.)

More: On Oct. 15, 2024, it was reported that Israeli Prime Min. Netanyahu told Pres. Biden that Israel is prepared to refrain from striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, oil and natural gas reserves, and infrastructure, focusing instead on military targets because the White House intends to deploy THAAD missiles to Israel.)

Four, concerning Israel retaliating on Iran: on Oct. 12, 2024, it was reported that:

Iran is experiencing a massive cyber-attack, especially on its nuclear facilities.
Almost all of Iran’s government forces, including the judiciary, legislature and executive, have suffered severe cyber-attacks and information theft.
Iran’s nuclear facilities, along with nearly all branches of government, have faced heavy cyberattacks, resulting in stolen information.

Five, concerning Russia, Iran, and the implications for the Battle of Gog and Magog: on Oct. 11, 2024, Russian Pres. Putin said, “Moscow continues to place a high priority on cooperation with Tehran and wishes to create a new world order in which the West and Israel no longer have a dominant position in global affairs.”

Notice that Putin said this on the same day that Israel is pondering a retaliation attack on Iran.

(My opinion: There will soon be a New World Order, but it will be dominated by the Antichrist, not Russia and Iran. The militaries of Russia and Iran will be destroyed by God on the mountains of Israel.)

Six, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog (Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others attacking Israel in the latter days and latter years) and the destruction of Damascus in one night: following an Israeli attack on a Hezbollah leader in Damascus on Oct. 12, 2024, Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan said, “It is essential that Russia, Iran, and Syria take more effective measures against this situation, which poses the greatest threat to Syria’s territorial integrity.”

(My opinion: Some excellent prophecy teachers believe the Battle of Gog and Magog will be after the Antichrist confirms the covenant that begins the Tribulation Period. Others, including myself, think it could be before the Tribulation Period. Other than the latter years and latter days, we don’t know when the Battle of Gog and Magog will take place, but Russia’s growing relationship with Iran and Erdogan’s frequent threats to Israel seem to indicate that it is close.

(More: regardless of who is right or who is wrong about whether the Battle of Gog and Magog is before or during the Tribulation Period, it will happen when God puts a hook in Gog’s jaws and drags Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the others onto the mountains of Israel.)

Seven, concerning anti-Semitism, the decline of America, deceit, and Jerusalem being a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone for the entire world: on Oct. 11, 2024, it was reported that a CBS internal memo told journalists not to refer to Jerusalem as part of Israel.)

The U.S. Congress recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital 29 years ago (1995), but these CBS officials think they can overrule Congress.

Media Bias is a real threat to Democracy.

Eight, concerning the decline of America: on Oct. 13, 2024, the U.S. sent a 5-page letter to Israel with a lengthy list of demands that Israel must meet in the next 30 days, or the U.S. will enforce an arms embargo against Israel.

Among other things, America’s demands include:

No policy of forced evacuation from northern to Southern Gaza (Israel is trying to evacuate citizens to keep them from getting killed or injured).
More humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza (Hamas steals a lot of the aid, and some of the trucks are smuggling in weapons to Hamas).
Israel must halt its actions against the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that Israel has shut down because some of these UN employees took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel (raped women, killed Jews, burned people at stakes, took hostages, etc.).

There is more, but the bottom line is that the U.S. is threatening to stop the sale of weapons to Israel (Israel needs some of these to defend itself).

(My opinion: God oversees Israel, so threatening Israel or trying to replace God is a bad mistake.)

(Question: What happened to the ramp that the U.S. military built for ships to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza? Answer: Waves of rough water destroyed it.)

Nine, concerning the spread of pestilences at the end of the age: on Oct. 11, 2024, it was reported that a UN World Health Organization (WHO) report says some of the known side effects of Pfizer’s BioNTech vaccine are monkeypox, smallpox, and cow pox.

Have you got that?

Officials, employers, and others were forcing people to be vaccinated, and one of the vaccines was causing deadly diseases to emerge and spread.

(My opinion: Citizens need to realize that there are people in high places who believe there are too many people on earth.)

Ten, concerning deceit, when Israeli forces captured a village in southern Lebanon, they said every house in the village was a Hezbollah terror base.

All the people were troops masquerading as citizens (wearing civilian clothes).

Every house contained weapons and military supplies.

It was a military base disguised as a village (barracks disguised as houses, etc.).

Eleven, concerning world government: on Oct. 16, 2024, the Washington Examiner reported that former Pres. Trump told Glen Beck that the U.S. is being run by a committee of people, not Pres. Biden or Vice-Pres. Harris.

Trump believes Biden has been overthrown and America has been taken over by “nasty” and “fascist” leaders.

(Note: Trump didn’t say it, but I have received many e-mails from readers that think that former Pres. Obama is involved.)

Here is my daily update on the Israel-Hamas war:

Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024 (Day 370): The three hundred and fifteenth day of the resumed war. Day 148 of the attack on Rafah.

An Arab terrorist stabbed 6 people in Israel (2 were critically wounded).

Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 (Day 371) The three hundred and sixteenth day of the resumed war. Day 149 of the attack on Rafah.

Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) will begin at 6 pm tonight, but Israeli troops will keep fighting.
More than 120 rockets were fired at Israel in the first few hours of the holiday.
Israel said its troops will keep attacking Hezbollah until the terrorists are no longer near Israel’s border with Lebanon.
Israel ordered Palestinians to evacuate several areas in northern Gaza to avoid being injured or killed when Israel attacks, but Hamas was preventing many from leaving.

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024 (Day 372) The three hundred and seventeenth day of the resumed war. Day 150 of the attack on Rafah.

Captured minutes from Hamas meetings reveal that Hamas tried to get Iran and Hezbollah to join their Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Israel ordered residents of 22 Lebanese villages to evacuate and go north before Israeli troops go in to deal with Hezbollah terrorists.
Israel ordered health workers and medical teams in Lebanon to stop using ambulances because Hezbollah uses ambulances to transport troops and weapons.
Hezbollah fired 320 rockets, mortars, and drones at Israel.

Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024 (Day 373) The three hundred and eighteenth day of the resumed war. Day 151 of the attack on Rafah.

Hezbollah fired more than 115 rockets into Israel.
Israel keeps urging the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Lebanon, and the UN is refusing to do it. Hezbollah is firing rockets from locations in Lebanon into Israel, and Israel is planning to attack them.
A Hezbollah drone struck a community in northern Israel and wounded 60 people (3 critically).
Israel has decided to destroy Hezbollah’s drone production, maintenance, and operation forces and facilities.

Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 (Day 374) The three hundred and nineteenth day of the resumed war. Day 152 of the attack on Rafah.

Israel released audio of a conversation between a representative of the Israeli military and a civilian in Gaza who reported that Hamas is beating residents who try to evacuate northern Gaza.
Israel killed another Hezbollah commander.
Israel has discovered about 700 Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon (some weapons from Russia and China) and items supplied by the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations World Food Program. As it was in Gaza, it is in Lebanon: Aid from the U.S. and UN is being confiscated by terrorists who are trying to destroy Israel.
Netanyahu said, “We will continue to hit Hezbollah mercilessly in all parts of Lebanon – also in Beirut.”
The UN Security Council called for the full implementation of Resolution 1701, which set the ceasefire terms that ended the Second Lebanon War.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 (Day 375) The three hundred and twentieth day of the resumed war. Day 153 of the attack on Rafah.

A Hezbollah terrorist that Israel captured in a tunnel told Israeli interrogators that many Hezbollah terrorists were paid to fight, and they got afraid and abandoned their posts when Israel killed Nasrallah.
Israeli jets bombed an underground weapons cache in Beirut, Lebanon.
Israel assassinated 2 Palestinian terrorists, arrested 20, and seized weapons.
Israel captured a Hamas terror cell that recently botched a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and was planning more.
The U.S. has suspended all hostage negotiations until after the upcoming presidential election.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

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.

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On Nuking Nuclear Iran

Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/20/on-nuking-nuclear-iran/

Diplomats of the world consider it the most crucial area on the planet in terms of attempting to force peace. Those who study Bible prophecy from the True perspective presented in God’s Word should not be surprised that this region is front and center in the cry for peace and safety at this late hour on God’s Prophetic Timeline.

The region of which I write is that which was called Persia in ancient times. At the heart of this volatile geographical arena is, of course, the nation of Iran. The Iranian Islamic regime is the most vociferous government on Earth in declaring they want death to the people of another nation. Its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, declares at every opportunity that Israel must be expunged from the land –and must be eradicated as a people. Additionally, he and those of his ilk within the regime want America destroyed.

Khamenei leads his people in the chants of death to the Great Satan (America) and death to the Little Satan (Israel) – thus, even though there is tremendous underground resistance by much of the populace within Iran against the fanatical, despotic government that has ruled since the Shaw was deposed.

The reason I say those who study Bible prophecy from the true perspective given in God’s Word shouldn’t be surprised is because Daniel the prophet recorded thousands of years ago that Persia was at the center of Israel’s troubles when he prayed so diligently for his people. Daniel told us, through his prophecy, that his people –hated and harangued by the Prince of Persia– would be on the earthly scene at the time of the end. And the book of the end, we certainly can believe with developments we’ve witnessed, has been opened (Daniel 12: 4) so that Bible students who truly seek Truth can recognize the lateness of this prophetic hour.

So Persia, at this very moment, is at the heart of Israel’s current problems, while that tiny country is surrounded by all Islamist nations that are used by Iran (Persia) as proxies to bedevil the Jewish state. And the fact that the Iranian leaders are blood-vowed to destroy their hated enemies, Israel and America, and knowing as Bible prophecy students who view eschatology from the True perspective –the PreTrib view– that Persia (Iran) is prophetically scheduled to be part of the Gog-Magog attack (Ezekiel 38-39) means that Iran’s nuclear development program is crucial to consider.

The world’s diplomats don’t look through the prism of PreTrib Bible prophecy. They haven’t a clue that it is the God of Heaven Who will prevent all-out war. They refuse to believe any higher power than themselves can bring the peace and safety they want to broker between Israel and its neighbor antagonists. Neither do most of the Israeli government or IDF generals believe it is a Supernatural Power that guarantees their safety –although there is a small circle of those within both entities that possess some degree of belief in God’s Protection of Israel.

All parties –the diplomats and Israel’s government and military—do understand nuclear power and the threat to peace and safety that power represents. Thus, there is great controversy at present on what to do about Iran’s nuclear weapons that it is feared the blood-vowed Israel haters might soon have in their possession.

With the recent missile attacks directly from Iran, many are urging Israel to use this as an excuse to obliterate the nuclear development facilities. The following somewhat explains the ongoing angst.

Two years ago, dozens of Israeli fighter jets roared over the Mediterranean Sea, simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a drill the Israeli defense forces openly advertised as an exercise in “long-range flight, aerial refueling and striking distant targets.”

The point of the exercise was not simply to intimidate the Iranians. It was also designed to send a message to the Biden administration: The Israeli air force was training to conduct the operation alone, even though chances of success would be far higher if the United States — with its arsenal of 30,000-pound “bunker busters” — joined in the attack.

In interviews, former and current senior Israeli officials acknowledged doubts about whether the country has the capability to do significant damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities. Nonetheless, for the past few days, Pentagon officials have been wondering quietly whether the Israelis are preparing to go it alone after concluding that they may never again have a moment like this one…

“Israel has now its greatest opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the Middle East,” Naftali Bennett, a hardline nationalist and former prime minister who once described himself as to the right of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently wrote on social media. “We must act *now* to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime.”

He added: “We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralyzed, Iran stands exposed.”

[Source: Washington Worries the Israelis Will Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites. But Can They? – The New York Times, October 9, 2024]

My commentary’s title, On Nuking Nuclear Iran, isn’t meant to give the impression Israel will use nuclear weaponry to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. While that option is no doubt available to the IDF, they could accomplish it, I believe, through conventional war-making means. Regardless of the means, destroying it certainly is the recommendation of many.

Former President Donald Trump is one such advocate, although it might be seen as merely a political bit of hyperbole. He didn’t make such statements or recommendations that we know of back when he was president. And every time I read a report back then, Iran was within a month or two, or even a week or two, of achieving weapons-grade fissionable materials that could then be used to develop nuclear bombs within a short time.

President Joe Biden has strongly demanded to Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel not take out the nuclear facilities. He has even, it is reported, offered financial rewards to Israel to think in other terms than attacking Iran’s nuclear laboratories and other facilities such as those for oil production. This means, to me at least, that the globalist powers that be fear losing the control they have lied, cheated, and fought so hard to achieve over world war-making on their own terms.

It seems to me there are some possible prophetic stage settings to consider in all of this.

Iran, we know (Persia,) will be at the heart of the Gog-Magog coalition when that horde descends in an all-out attack against an Israel which is at peace, according to Ezekiel 38-39. There seems no nuclear weaponry unleashed on the Jewish state, only primarily a land invasion.

The attackers’ nukes have somehow been taken out of the picture, so far as is known in that attack itself. Neither are Israel’s nukes apparently available to retaliate, as given in Ezekiel’s description of the assault. However, God Himself uses, it seems, some sort of Heavenly Nukes!

It is interesting that “fires on the coastlands” is part of the description of that tremendous prophetic scene. Are these nuclear in nature? Could be, but I rather am of the opinion that the fire that’s sent on the coastlands is a Supernatural Judgment sent by the Lord upon those in the region, other than the Gog-Magog attackers—the Anti-Semitic forces– who perpetrate evil against His chosen people. Perhaps it is like the sulfur and brimstone Judgment that fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

God has Dealt very recently with Israel’s enemies in observable ways for those who hold to Bible Truth and watch for prophetic signals of these troubled times. It will be, as Daniel the Prophet foretold, for those of us who name the Name of Jesus Christ to Watch and Discern these times that are almost certainly stage-setting for the coming Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week).

“And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Daniel 12: 8-10).

Those who obey the Lord Jesus Christ’s Command are the “wise” at this moment about whom Daniel prophesied.

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).

For those who know Christ for Salvation, there is the Promise of being kept out of that terrible time of Tribulation that will come upon the whole world (Revelation 3:10).

Jesus said the following about that Promise:

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

This Promise by the Lord Himself was for believers of both the Church Age (our current Age of Grace) and for believers who come to Know Christ as Savior during the Tribulation.

For us today, this is the Rapture, of which Jesus Spoke.

He will call all believers to Himself in the Clouds of Glory before the terrible 7 years of Hell on Earth begins.

You want to be part of the Rapture. You can then “Watch” as developments in stage-setting move daily toward the Tribulation. You can do so with the absolute confidence that Christ will call you to Himself before the world reaches that time of God’s Judgment and Wrath.

One of the most observable signals of that movement toward the Tribulation is Israel’s dealing with Iran’s (ancient Persia’s) nuclear weapons facilities. Actually, it is God’s dealing with Israel’s enemies you can “Watch” with Spiritual Eyes Attuned to Holy Spirit-infused Wisdom, as Daniel was given to tell us about by the Angel (Daniel 12: 8-10).

Here again is how to become a believer in Jesus Christ, thus a Member of God’s Family Forever.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10: 9-10).

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In Opposition to Israel, China Seeks to Broker Palestinian Control Over Post War Gaza Strip

Soeren Kern - https://harbingersdaily.com/in-opposition-to-israel-china-seeks-to-broker-palestinian-control-over-post-war-gaza-strip/

More than a dozen Palestinian factions—including bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas—recently signed a national unity deal aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over the Gaza Strip after the war with Israel ends. Known as the Beijing Declaration, the deal, negotiated by China, lays the groundwork for an interim national reconciliation government to rule post-war Gaza.

China, which has long sought to expand its influence in the Middle East, touted the agreement as a diplomatic victory to enhance its image as a champion of the Palestinian cause. However, the deal is unlikely to succeed because it does not address the deep-seated divisions within the Palestinian movement.

Intra-Palestinian rivalry revolves around a power struggle for control of the Palestinian national movement. Fatah, allegedly secular, claims to seek a nonviolent path to a two-state solution, which would involve establishing an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel. By contrast, Hamas, an Iran-backed Islamist terror group, fundamentally rejects Israel’s right to exist as an independent, sovereign country.

Fatah’s and Hamas’s decades-long enmity increased in 2004, after the death of Yasser Arafat, the first president of the Palestinian Authority, and boiled over in 2007, when Hamas violently ejected Fatah from Gaza and took control over the territory. Since then, more than a dozen reconciliation attempts have ended in failure.

The Beijing Declaration has several major objectives: (1) creating an interim Palestinian national unity government for Gaza and the West Bank, (2) unifying Palestinian institutions, and (3) electing a new Palestinian National Council. The agreement leaves out crucial details, including whether Hamas will recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who said the agreement was “dedicated to the great reconciliation and unity of all 14 [Palestinian] factions,” outlined a three-step plan for post-war Gaza: (1) promoting a lasting ceasefire, (2) upholding the principle of “Palestinians governing Palestine,” and (3) recognizing an independent Palestinian state. An official Chinese statement included a commitment to “the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.” President Xi Jinping additionally called for an international peace conference aimed at achieving Palestine’s “full” membership in the United Nations.

Middle East expert Tahani Mustafa believes the Beijing Declaration will fail because Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is opposed to sharing power with Hamas. “The biggest obstacle so far has been Mahmoud Abbas and his absolute reluctance to relinquish in any way his monopoly on power. . . . It would mean Fatah losing its hegemony over the last Palestinian political institution it controls,” she said.

Israel opposes any future governance role for Hamas, and Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz flatly rejected the Beijing Declaration. “Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement in China for joint control of Gaza after the war,” he noted. “Instead of rejecting terrorism, Mahmoud Abbas embraces the murderers and rapists of Hamas, revealing his true face. In reality, this won’t happen because Hamas’s rule will be crushed, and Abbas will be watching Gaza from afar. Israel’s security will remain solely in Israel’s hands.”

During a recent speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his goal is to destroy Hamas. “The day after we defeat Hamas, a new Gaza can emerge,” he said. “My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and deradicalized Gaza. Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza. But for the foreseeable future, we must retain overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.”

Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?

The current status of Gaza showcases that creating a Palestinian State, providing a deal could even be reached, would not breed a peaceful outcome. When Israel left Gaza in 2005, the land went from a thriving region to a bastion of terrorism against the Jewish State.

In addition, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has continued to demonstrate its genocidal views against the Jewish People with its ongoing payments to the families of terrorists.

Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, would continue to funnel money, just as they do with Hezbollah in Lebanon, to accomplish their goals of eradicating Israel.

As Olivier Melnick recently underscored, “As much as the Palestinian narrative has wanted us to believe it was, this was never about the land. This has always been about the complete annihilation of the Jewish people and the complete eradication of the State of Israel from the world map.”

Hal Lindsey likewise wrote: “Hatred against Israel is not about land, rights, or money. It is a tenet of [Islamic] faith.”

Rewarding terrorists with land and autonomy couldn’t possibly bring peace to the region. So why are the Biden administration and numerous world leaders championing this “solution”? The answer is found in Scripture.

A two-state solution advocates for the dividing of Jerusalem, with the east portion of the city being given to the Palestinians for their state capital.

God told the prophet Zechariah that a time would come when Israel is re-established, and the world would be fixated on the idea of dividing the Jewish State, specifically Jerusalem.

In Zechariah 12:3, God warned the nations: “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”

The seeming complexity of bringing peace to the Middle East is not complicated when we examine the region through a Biblical worldview. The Bible provides a detailed understanding of Israel’s history and future. In its divine precision, God’s Word even illuminates the intentions in the hearts of those seeking to destroy or divide the world’s only Jewish State.

“The Epitome of Evil” Is Running Operations Out of Government Facilities “Established to Provide Assistance to Migrants”

by Michael Snyder - https://endoftheamericandream.com/the-epitome-of-evil-is-running-operations-out-of-government-facilities-established-to-provide-assistance-to-migrants/

Are you ready for the truth? Since Joe Biden entered the White House, we have witnessed a tsunami of migration that is unlike anything we have ever seen before. Millions upon millions of people that are not being properly screened are taking advantage of our deeply broken immigration system. As a result, South American gangs are now absolutely thriving in major cities all over America. In fact, as you will see below, the most notorious South American gang is literally running operations out of facilities that were originally established by the government to assist migrants.

I have written about the national crisis that Tren de Aragua has created before, but it just keeps getting worse. According to the Daily Mail, authorities are referring to this gang as the “epitome of evil” and “MS-13 on steroids”…

Dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’ and ‘MS-13 on steroids’, police investigations showed that the mob is behind a spiraling crime wave across the US, with members accused of murders, violent assaults on cops and sex trafficking women.

‘MS-13, they were never organized; Tren de Aragua is a transnational criminal organization from the bottom to the top,’ Colorado’s former ICE director John Fabbricatore told DailyMail.com.

‘These guys right here [in the US] – they’re sending money back to leaders in Venezuela. They’re set up shop like a corporation – it is the like the mafia. What it took MS-13 to do in like a ten-year period, Tren de Aragua has been able to do in less than a year,’ he added.

They have come across our wide open borders for a purpose.

They are here to commit crimes and make lots of money, and they are causing chaos in communities from coast to coast.

In fact, it is being reported that in some cities they are actually running their operations out of “the very facilities established to provide assistance to migrants”…

As recent police investigations and criminal prosecutions have revealed, Tren de Aragua has no need to subsist in the underground world of urban blight where previous generations of immigrant crime gangs flourished. Instead, it appears to operate in the very facilities established to provide assistance to migrants who have illegally crossed the southern border, which Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris has so disastrously mismanaged.

Tren de Aragua’s leaders and members – identifiable by particular tattoos – have been reported to live, recruit new members, and sortie from migrant shelters, hotels appropriated for migrant use, and other social welfare institutions. New York City mayor Eric Adams, himself now under indictment for bribery and campaign finance crimes, estimates that migrant-related expenses will cost more than $12 billion by 2025 and could “destroy New York City”.

If we do not get this under control, the consequences will be horrific.

They are dealing drugs, they are breaking into homes, they are trafficking women and children, and they will kill anyone that gets in their way.

Earlier this month, there was a massive operation in San Antonio during which authorities took back a sprawling apartment complex that had been taken over by Tren de Aragua…

In a pre-dawn operation, hundreds of law enforcement officers closed in on the sprawling Palatia Apartments in the early hours of October 5 after spending weeks investigating reports that Tren de Aragua had control of the area.

After searching over 300 units, cops arrested 19 individuals – four of which have been confirmed as gang members.

‘One TdA member is a confirmed “enforcer” for that gang,’ and 15 were in the country illegally,’ the city’s top cop William McManus said.

According to one person that lives in that apartment complex, the gang was “prostituting the women and the children” in some of the apartment units.

We should be thankful that particular apartment complex has been cleaned up, but the Daily Mail has found three others in San Antonio that have also been taken over by Tren de Aragua…

But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization.

DailyMail.com is not naming the three other apartment complexes to avoid jeopardizing ongoing police investigations.

However, the locations were confirmed by law enforcement sources, and we spent days visiting the sites where we spoke to terrified residents.

San Antonio was once such a beautiful place.

But now it is being absolutely terrorized by this gang.

And more military-age men from Venezuela are coming over the southern border with each passing day…

According to the authority’s most recent statistics, 25,111 migrants passed through the Darién Gap in September, a 51.23-percent increase from the 16,603 recorded in August. Venezuelan nationals accounted for 78.83 percent of September’s total Darién crossings, totaling 19,800 registered encounters, up from the 11,733 logged in August.

Nearly eight million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past decade as a result of the collapse of socialism in their country. The Venezuelan migrant crisis, described as the worst migrant crisis in the Western Hemisphere, is only comparable in size to that of Syria and Ukraine, notable since Venezuela has not been in a state of war in recent history.

In Venezuela, there isn’t much money to be made since most of the population is living in poverty.

So criminals have been making the long journey north because there is lots of money to be made in the United States.

We must put an end to this, but the politicians in Washington refuse to do so.

Once they get across the border in Panama, it is so easy for South American criminals to get to our southern border. This is something that Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino discussed during a recent speech to the United Nations…

In his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Panamanian President Mulino declared the flow of U.S.-bound migrants passing through his country an “immense global problem.” Migrants pass through his country in such large numbers, he said, that the “United States border” is functionally in Panama. Mulino called for joint international efforts to curb the flow of migrants, stressing that his country does not have the resources to solve the crisis on its own.

He is right.

Our southern border is basically in Panama at this point.

And that has got to stop.

When things finally hit the fan, millions of people that have come into this country illegally are going to go completely wild.

If our leaders had made better choices, things could have turned out much differently.

But now the stage has been set for unprecedented chaos, and when that time comes our law enforcement agencies will be totally overwhelmed.

Daily Jot: Sukkot’s practical and prophetic meaning to Christians

Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com

The festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur focus on the LORD as Creator and Judge, and the One who atones for our sins. Sukkot, October 16-23, 2024, is the climax of the Pilgrimage festivals: Pesach/Passover, Shavout/Pentecost, and Sukkot/Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:16). The word simchah, “joy,” appears several times in scripture regarding Sukkot, only once in reference to Shavuot, and not at all concerning Pesach. Deuteronomy 16:13-15 says, “You shall keep the feast of Sukkot seven days, when you have gathered your produce…you shall rejoice in your feast…because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be together joyful.”

Even with the troubles of the world, this is a time to be joyful. First, because Sukkot is a celebration of God’s forgiveness of sin during Yom Kippur, and God’s miraculous deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Second because the protection and provision in the 40 years of wilderness wanderings, when the LORD tabernacled among the Israelites and the sukkah was actually His Cloud of Glory, His Shekhinah (Exodus 40:35-36). The festival is celebrated by building a sukkah, a temporary hut with a roof of palm branches, or other natural covering so that you can still see from whence your help comes! In 1 Corinthians 10:1-2, the apostle Paul wrote, “For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”

Third: Sukkot became associated with the final harvest after entering the Promised Land, and was the celebration of thanksgiving for the fruit of the harvest. This was the American forefathers’ inspiration for our Thanksgiving holiday. The sukkah represents our dependance on the LORD for our shelter and provision. The Jewish people eat their meals in the sukkah and the orthodox even sleep there, further affirming their faith in God’s provision for their lives. Fourth: Prophetically speaking, Sukkot foreshadows the coming Kingdom of Messiah when all the nations will “go up” to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkot (Zechariah 14:16). It may be that Jesus was born during Sukkot, the same verb that says He “dwelt” with us (John 1:14), derives from the root that is the same that refers both to the Tabernacle/Mishkan and the tents of Sukkot.

John 7 demonstrates that Jesus kept Sukkot. In this account, Jesus attended Sukkot secretly because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him. When He returns, however, it will be very public and “on the Clouds of Glory” (Matthew 24:30; Revelation 1:7). He will once again “tabernacle” among us! Then the visible manifestation of the Shekhinah Glory will be over all of Mt. Zion. As believers in Jesus, Sukkot reminds us that we are just ”strangers and sojourners” traveling through this world, not belonging to it. We are looking forward to the City of God” (Hebrews 11:9-10), and do not need the fleeting things of this world to sustain us. If we believe we are truly sheltered by God’s Presence, then what more could we possibly want? Isn’t that the ultimate joy?

Daily Devotion: The Heart Is Deceitful

by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? —Jeremiah 17:9

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Bruce Springsteen had a “Hungry Heart.” Billy Ray Cyrus had an “Achy Breaky Heart.” Toni Braxton sang “Un-Break My Heart,” and the Bee Gees sang “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” which is a good question if you have an “achy breaky heart.” Of course, Celine Dion reminds us that the heart will go on, even if it’s hungry, achy breaky, or broken.

You can probably think of dozens of other songs that have the word heart in their titles. The heart holds a special place in our culture—especially pop culture—because it represents our deepest emotions. Romantics believe that our emotions are the purest essence of who we are. Your body can be tempted. Your mind can be deceived. But your heart will never lead you astray. Or so says the plot of every romantic comedy to come out of Hollywood. So the only way to find true happiness and ultimate fulfillment in life is to (say it with me) follow your heart.

But in Jeremiah 17:9, God says, “Not so fast.” There’s nothing particularly noble or pure about the human heart. In fact, you’d have a hard time finding anything more deceitful or wicked. The heart is selfish. It wants what it wants, regardless of the consequences or the pain it causes others.

It doesn’t have to be that way. In Ezekiel 36:26, God tells the people of Israel, “I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart” (NLT). This spiritual heart transplant changes everything. You develop a tender, responsive heart by filling your mind with God’s Word, meditating on it, obeying it, and letting it change you from the inside. When your heart becomes a conduit for God’s wisdom and love, it can be trusted. And it can be useful.

David wrote, “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires” (Psalm 37:4 NLT). Taking delight in the Lord means recognizing that His ways are best. The result is a desire to make sure His will is done. When you align your life with God’s will, your heart changes. It becomes more like God’s. And when your prayers sync with what God wants for you, God gives you the desires of your heart.

Until God changes your heart, it will lead you astray if you try to follow it. It will deceive you into believing that it can guide you to genuine happiness and fulfillment. In reality, only God can deliver those things.

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