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	Israel- God's Timepiece Israel Warns Of Possible Pre-Emptive Chemical Weapons Strike In Syria Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah or al Qaeda inspired groups, officials said Sunday ....  Click here for full story
	Christian Worldview and Issues Pastor Saeed Sentenced to 8 Years in Iran's Brutal Evin Prison Iran's notorious Islamic Revolutionary Court on Sunday convicted Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen, of "threatening the national security" by leading house churches years ago, and sentenced him to eight years in Tehran's Evin Prison ....  Click here for full story
	Christian Worldview and Issues Researchers Rank Most, Least Megachurch-Oriented Cities in U.S. A new study reveals which U.S. cities have the highest and lowest concentration of megachurch attenders among the Christian population ....  Click here for full story
	Christian Worldview and Issues UK Government Source: Teachers May Face Firing for Refusing to Teach Gay Marriage As Great Britain's government prepares to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, an official from the Secretary of State for Education's office reportedly has expressed trepidation toward the bill, arguing that primary school teachers in the country could possibly lose their jobs if they do not teach about gay marriage in the classroom ....  Click here for full story
	Increase In Knowledge and Technologies Experts Warn That Britain's Deadly Superdrone That Picks Its Own Targets Could Mark The Start Of 'Robot Wars' It is named after the Celtic god of thunder, can fly faster than the speed of sound and evades enemy radar with its single-wing stealth design. This is Taranis, Britain’s latest pilotless combat aircraft, which is even capable of selecting its own targets..... Click here for full story
	Increase In Knowledge and Technologies The National Intelligence Council Predicts A Very Transhuman Future By 2030 The National Intelligence Council is a high-level agency best known for producing National Intelligence Estimates – forecasts predicting future trends and issues of the next fifteen years ....  Click here for full story
	Increase In Knowledge and Technologies Hypersonic SpaceLiner That Travels At 24 Times The Speed Of Sound 'To Be Built By 2050' A hypersonic SpaceLiner capable of reaching 24 times the speed of sound and transporting passengers from London to Sydney in 90 minutes could be with us by 2050. .....  Click here for full story

ISRAEL ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY!!

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Jan, 28, 2013

Israel…Independently Wealthy!

Beginning about 1930, and going on into the ‘60s, my grandfather worked in the oil business. He managed wells all through the Southwest. He often told my dad that the country that was energy independent had no enemies. He meant that they had both independence from foreign oil and could therefore defend itself, and that the nation could also sell oil to others. He had a point.

But he never met Israel.

News came last week that work has commenced on the gigantic natural gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean coast. Discovered a couple years ago, estimates are that it could be worth one trillion dollars, and could provide energy for Israel up to a hundred years.

The discovery predictably upset Israel’s neighbors, who will no doubt covet the energy prize. One can only imagine what a country, say to the far north, thinks about it all.

Leviathan, the aptly named project, is an economic zone comprising a huge gas and oil field. By next year, the field will go online for local consumption and reserve storage. A 30-inch “trunk” line is being put down in the Haifa region now, with pipes being welded and set up. It is estimated that foreign sales could commence in 2015 (although to which nations it hasn’t been determined. One can hardly envision Israel’s Arab neighbors being able to bring themselves to buy from the Jewish state).

By April of this year, the TAMAR gas field will come online, with high-pressure, 16-inch pipes. The infrastructure has been tested.

Significantly, these developments will allow Israeli electric power stations to operate on natural gas. Industrial sites will follow soon. Consumers will be next in line.

Israel, already a giant in the technology industry, will add this vast energy wealth to its coffers. Normally, this would be a time of rejoicing all around, but for those of us who follow Bible prophecy, it’s obvious these developments can prove problematic.

I was reminded of this in recent days, as I read the latest blockbuster book from my friend, Bill Salus. Titled Psalm 83: The Missing Prophecy Revealed, the book is rich with information on last days’ conflict between Israel and her Arab neighbors. I consider Bill to be the best researcher around, and he doesn’t disappoint in this latest effort. The gas field Israel is now in possession of relates directly to what I consider to be the Psalm 83 prophecy.

Further to Israel’s potential trouble is a USA Today report this past week, on the heels of Israel’s election. Benjamin Netanyahu drew enough support for a new four-year term, but it came with a surprise showing by a new centrist party, which will make it harder for Netanyahu to govern.

Ominously, an Israeli journalist (admittedly, this comes from left-leaning Akiva Eldar) sees the settlement issue front-and-center now:

“From the day Obama gets sick of us, all he has to do is to instruct the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. to absent himself from the vote.” Eldar thinks Obama will use his influence with European governments to turn the screws on Israel, “to teach Netanyahu who is stronger.”

This is all ominous, of course. Obama’s punk play in diplomacy is disturbing, to say the least (another disturbing trend is for evangelicals to begin to criticize those who bring Obama’s true nature to light). It all adds up to a very interesting 2013!

jim@prophecymatters.com

THE LATEST MID-EAST WEEKLY VIDEO PROPHECY UPDATE FROM THE SPLENDID PASTOR JD FARAG, FROM THE CALVARY CHAPEL IN HAWAII.

PLEASE DO NOT MISS THE EXCELLENT BRIAN GEMMELL AT PONTYPOOL AND NEWPORT IN FEBRUARY!

Dear Friends,

February is almost upon us, and a note for your diaries is the upcoming mini tour of our area by the popular and exciting teacher, Brian Gemmell from the Bible Prophecy Foundation.

Brian resides in York these days, but comes from Scotland, as many of you know from his dulcet tones when he has ministered to us in the past.

Brian commences his annual visit to South Wales with a fine evening of superb Bible Prophecy teaching at The Pontypool branch of the PWMI and the BPF on Friday the 15th Feb (7.30pm), when he will speak on "LAWLESSNESS ON THE LOOSE", as he succintly summarises what devilish practises are happening in the world around us today. This promises to be a fascinating and illuminating prophetic message for us in these "evil last days" in which we live, and is one not to miss if at all possible. The venue is the ZION Church, 4 Pisgah, Road, Talywain, Pontypool, NP4 7HZ (tel Neville Stephens on 07808 251502 for more info).

On the next day, Saturday the 16th Feb, Brian will be ministering four times at Nancy's Farm in Bassaleg from 11am-5pm (bring your own packed lunch), when his intriguing and fascinating subject will be "RETURN OF THE BIBLE GIANTS???" when he will teach on fallen angels, the nephilim, demons, satanic influences on the earth, and much more on this scary but very believable scenario! Please contact me on 07808 251502 for more details.

Brian will conclude his mini tour of our area on the Sunday when he will take the morning service at the City Of Refuge Church in Bassaleg, Newport from 10.30am, when his title will be "GOD'S POWER THROUGH THE WORD" (please contact Nancy Williams on 01633 893210 for more info).

Brian is a great end times Bible Prophecy teacher, and it is always well worth travelling to listen to this fine man of God, who is divinely blessed and spiritually anointed to bring us the Word of the Lord for these perilous latter days of our remaining time on earth. Please do not miss these exciting meetings if at all possible.

I hope to see you at these meetings, but also for a full guide of all of the upcoming meetings in our region for the year (with their full addresses), please go to the top right hand section of this blog where you will find a comprehensive list.

Maranatha Blessings,
Neville.

LATEST EXCLUSIVE HEADLINES FROM THE VERY INFORMATIVE AND UP TO DATE DEBKA FILES!

Summary of DEBKA Exclusives, January 26, 2012

January 18, 2013 Briefs: Panetta: Terrorists will find no sanctuary The US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta said Friday the US is working with the British and Algerian governments to assess what's happening on the ground at a natural gas complex in the Sahara where Islamic militants are holding hostages from at least 10 countries. Panetta said the terrorists should be on notice that they'll find no sanctuary in Algeria or North Africa, in the Obama administration first direct comment on Algerian hostage crisis. Nuclear watchdog confirms no agreement in discussions in Tehran The IAEA team leader Herman Nackaerts said Friday that two days of intensive discussions in Tehran had failed to produce an agreement on access to Iranian nuclear facilities, but another round of talks will take place on Feb. 12 in Tehran. Egyptian forces secure French Cairo embassy against Islamist protest Salafist and other extreme Islamist movements called on the faithful to march Friday on the French mission in Cairo Friday in protest against the “colonial” move by France to send troops to Mali. Egyptian security forces were deployed at the embassy in advance. Ron Nachman, Ariel Mayor for 29 years, is dead He succumbed to cancer aged 70 after developing the Samaria town of Ariel into a thriving city over nearly three decades.  Ron Nachman, a former Likud Knesset Member, fought and won the battle to accord Ariel College full academic recognition as a university. He is widely mourned as a national figure. Al Qaeda offers to swap US hostages for terrorists DEBKAfile Special Report 18 Jan. The Al Qaeda group which seized hostages from 10 nations at the remote Algerian gas field in In Aminas Wednesday, Jan. 16, has addressed its first demand to the United States: The release of two American hostages for two high-profile Islamist terrorists jailed in the US: Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and plotting the murder of Rabbi Kahane, and Pakistani-American neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, convicted for trying to kill US troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2009. January 19, 2013 Briefs: Mali’s neighbors fear backlash from French Mali mission International security experts warn that if the Islamists can hit a major Algerian gas field protected by tough security forces, West African nations with ill-equipped and inexperienced troops, far from taking over the Mali mission from France, feel vulnerable to increasingly international terrorism. Senegal and Nigeria may follow Mauritanian and Niger as hosts for al Qaeda cells. Algerian security sources report that the gas field hostage siege, which targeted foreign workers from ten nations, was carried out by a multinational group that included Algerians, Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans, two Canadians, a Frenchman and a Malian. Al Qaeda in North Africa (AQIM) threatens fresh strikes against regional powers and Western interests. Obama leads America into isolationism DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis 19 Jan. Barack Obama’s refusal to intervene directly in the Mali and Algerian gas field crises is a mark of his evolving isolationist policy. DEBKAfile:  Even though the US homeland may not be in immediate peril of from the two episodes, Al Qaeda’s interconnecting tentacles cannot be ignored:  Seven years ago on July 7, jihadist suiciders blew up London trains and a bus with explosives provided by the very Al Qaeda cells of Sahel Desert which occupy Mali and struck the Algerian gas field. The start of this policy was signaled last month by Obama’s withdrawal of the USS Eisenhower strike group and the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group from stations opposite Syria. The French Mali enterprise and Algerian hostage siege, both involving a Qaeda, found the United States without a single carrier, landing vessel or marine force anywhere in the vicinity. It is not surprising to hear Pentagon and top US military experts sharply criticizing the White House’s policy of non-intervention. January 20, 2013 Briefs: Tehran: Assad’s overthrow is red line for Iran A leading Iranian presidential contender Ali Akbar Velayati said Sunday: “If the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, the line of resistance in the face of Israel will be broken.” Velayati who is close to Supreme leader Ali Khamenei was in a Lebanese broadcast interview. January 21, 2013 Russia lifts first nationals out of Syria. Moscow, Iran arm Assad for big offensive DEBKAfile Exclusive Report 21 Jan. Moscow said Monday, Jan. 21 that two Russian planes would land in Beirut Tuesday to evacuate 100 Russians from Syria, and contingency plans were in hand to lift 30,000 Russians from the embattled country. DEBKAfile: This was decided after Bashar Assad told his high command to organize mobile armored strike groups for a big push to evict rebel forces out of the places they captured – mostly in the north and southeast. Russia and Iran have stepped up their arms deliveries to Assad’s army by sea and by air as Saudi, Qatari and UAE funding for arms to the rebels dries up. To camouflage heir heavy arms deliveries to Tartus, the Russian navy Sunday, Jan. 20, announced a large-scale sea maneuver in the Mediterranean.  DEBKAfile: Russian deliveries consist mainly of armored vehicles, self-propelling recoilless guns, all-purpose vehicles for rough terrain and a variety of missiles and rockets for combat in built-up areas – all items clearly designed to outfit Assad’s new armored strike groups. Tehran is sending ammo, spare parts for Syrian tanks and artillery and missiles.

January 22, 2013 Briefs: At least 17 people killed in Baghdad blasts Three blasts, including a suicide bomber attack near an army base in Baghdad left least 17 people dead and wounded more than 50 more in the Iraqi capital Tuesday. Israelis elect 19th parliament and next government More than 5.65 million voters were eligible to cast their votes among 31 parties at 10,000 polling stations up and down the country. Balloting proceeded smoothly. Early voting took place at military posts and diplomatic missions overseas. Election Day is by law a national holiday and people are taking advantage of the clear, sunny weather to head out for picnics and the beaches after voting. January 23, 2013 Briefs: Israeli soldiers shot and killed Palestinian woman The IDF spokesman said she and a Palestinian man had thrown petrol bombs at the soldiers on the Hebron-Etzion Block road on the West Bank Wednesday. The soldiers then opened fire.  The woman was killed and the man injured. Lavrov slams “obsession with toppling Assad” Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov Wednesday assigned the blame for the failure to find a solution to the Syrian crisis to the opposition: “For now, everything is running up against the opposition’s obsessing with toppling Bashar Assad’s regime,” he said. The US will run French airlift to Mali two more weeks The Pentagon is keeping eight to 10 people at the Mali capital’s airport after the US Air Force flew five C-17 flights into Bamako and delivered more than 80 French troops and 124 tons of equipment.  The US airlift will continue two more weeks as hundreds of African troops from Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso and Senegal arrive in Mali. Tuesday, Malian forces recaptured the key towns of Diabaly and Douentza with the help of the French.  The French intervention for ousting Islamist extremists from northern Mali began Jan 11. France will stay as long as necessary for other African countries to take over. Netanyahu may take defense portfolio DEBKAfile Exclusive Report 23 Jan. Binyamin Netanyahu may keep responsibility for defense in his next cabinet, naming Yair Shamir (of Israel Beitenu) minister in the defense ministry, DEBKAfile discloses. This would end outgoing Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon’s expectation of defense in the post-election lineup. As an alternative, Ehud Barak would be retained as a non-political expert. After his stunning election showing, Yair Lapid is in line for Vice Prime Minister plus a key cabinet post, possibly foreign affairs. Naftali Bennett is in line for an economic portfolio although his first choice is Religious Affairs. Wednesday night, Lapid put paid to a chorus led by Labor’s Shelley Yacimovitch for his Future to join the left-of-center and the Arab parties to block Netanyahu’s efforts to build a coalition government. Instead, he welcomed Binyamin Netanyahu as next prime minister.  “I was glad to hear Netanyahu referring to all the things I have been aiming for,” he said to reporters. There will be no opposition bloc - certainly not with Hanin Zouabi,” said Lapid. To build a viable government, Netanyahu needs Lapid DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis 23 Jan. Even after losing one-third of his party’s support in the Tuesday Jan. 22 general election, no one but Binyamin Netanyahu (who is still leading with 31 out of 120 Knesset seats) can form Israel’s next government. But he cannot manage without the new centrist figure Yair Lapid and his fledgling Future party (second with 19 seats) and meeting their demands for peace talks and key economic, budget, security, and other policy changes. If they agree on guidelines, other parties will fall in line behind them. Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home, which would have been Netanyahu’s natural senior partner had the Israeli voter given him the same chance as Lapid instead of only 12 seats, will no doubt soon join the new government lineup. The newcomers lack background in government. But Netanyahu was not prevented by long experience from making serious mistakes in the last year or two. New faces may not be a bad thing for Israel’s political wellbeing. January 24, 2013 Briefs: American Mumbai plotter gets 35 years David Coleman Headley, a US Chicago citizen of Pakistani descent was sentenced to 35 years prison as co-plotter of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, which killed 166 people, including six Israelis at the Habad center. He avoided life or death by agreeing to testify against additional terror suspects living in America. Official results of Israel’s 19th Knesset elections The results as released Thursday night by the Central Elections Committee: Likud-Israel Beitenu – 31; Future – 19; Labor – 15; Jewish Home -12 (up from 11); Shas – 11; Raam-Taal – 4; Kadima – 2; Tzipi Livni and Meretz – 6 each. Voter turnout reached 67.79 percent. Forty-one thousand ballots were disqualified. Germany, Netherlands join Britain in advising nationals to quit Benghazi They were responding to a “specific, imminent threat to Westerners,” a week after the hostage siege at an Algerian gas field left scores dead.  Wednesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified to a House Committee on the murders of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff in Benghazi last September. DEBKAfile: The advisory applies in effect to all foreigners employed in Libyan oil fields since most have accommodation in Benghazi. North Korea plans nuclear test, more rocket launches The North Korean Defense Commission announced a third nuclear test will take place as well as more long-range rocket launches, “targeting the arch enemy, the United States.” White House on Israeli vote: Talk to Palestinians White House spokesman Jay Carney commenting on the Israeli election said: "We believe that what needs to take place is direct negotiations between the two parties (Israelis and Palestinians) that addresses the final-status issues and results in a two-state solution that provides the sovereignty that the Palestinian people deserve and the security that the Israeli people and Israel deserves."

THE HIGHLY RESPECTED DR MICHAEL YOUSEFF ON "THE ULTIMATE IN HYPOCRISY"!!

"THE ULTIMATE IN HYPOCRISY" BY MICHAEL YOUSEFF. 

 Where can one look to find the ultimate hypocrisy today?
One would think we could look to current politicians, among whom there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around.
Or we could look to Al Gore, who preaches “green,” but makes more than $100 million from the “black gold” of Qatar. In selling Current TV, Gore’s failed television network, to Al Jazeera, he merely confirmed what nearly everyone knew about him: that the only green he believes in is the color of money.
But to find the ultimate hypocrisy, we need only look a little further—for if you guessed it is closely connected with Al Jazeera, Qatar, and Al Gore, you would be very close.
On Monday, January 21, the beefy Emir of Qatar opened the Doha Third Forum to combat human trafficking. His royal highness played host to the annual conference, which takes place in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
Readers who are unfamiliar with Middle East politics would be excused for criticizing me for even mentioning this worthy cause in a negative light. The tragedy of human trafficking is a global catastrophe and needs all the exposure it can get. But it is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the Emir of Qatar to play host to such a worthy effort to stop that tragedy. It is like Osama bin Laden having hosted a Middle East conference on peace.
Qatar, and its billionaire Emir, have been funding and supporting Islamist radicals around the world for years. And in addition to dolling out money to those groups, they have spread an Islamist message by using their global megaphone, called Al Jazeera—an operation that was even shunned by some Arab countries because of its support for radicals.
It was said that when former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt visited Qatar, he wanted to see Al Jazeera’s headquarters. When he saw the small size of the building, he reportedly said, “Is this the matchbox which is igniting all this fire?”
Al Jazeera has indeed created havoc. The Emir of Qatar and his Al Jazeera megaphone have a reputation for, as they say in the Middle East, “killing a person and weeping at his funeral.” In other words, they sow trouble and support radicals, and yet they try to appear as clean as Mother Teresa.
Having said all that, I need to clarify something for Western readers who may have watched the English-language division of Al Jazeera. For those viewers, the English version often seems “no more radical than CNN or BBC.” In fact, many of the personnel for the English division came from those two organizations.
But when it comes to the mother ship—the Arabic channel of Al Jazeera—it’s a whole different ballgame. On the Arabic version, reporter after reporter often creates a narrative that fits their anti-Christian, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic milieu.
Qatar and its rulers trying to cover themselves with the golden robe of a popular cause—such as their supposed support of the fight against human trafficking—is to cover what may not be savory intentions.
When it comes to hypocrisy, there is plenty of guilt to go around. But Doha’s hosting of the forum against human trafficking represents a new low in the annals of duplicity.

THE LATEST EXCLUSIVE HEADLINES FROM THE EXCELLENT DEBKA FILES.

Summary of DEBKA Exclusives, January 21, 2013

January 11, 2013 Briefs: • Islamists injured 7 Egyptian troops in Sinai Al Qaeda or Salifist Bedouin extremists attacked an Egyptian patrol Friday in the Sinai Ouja region near the gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, and injured one officer and six recruits. They were taken to hospital in El Arish. US military option for Syria nixed before Hagel’s coming DEBKAfile Special Report 11 Jan. At a joint news conference Friday, Jan. 11, retiring Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey, cleaned the Pentagon’s Syrian desk ready for incoming Secretary Chuck Hagel. Boiled down to essentials, their triple message was that Bashar Assad could not be stopped from using chemical weapons if he chose to do so, that securing the CW sites after Assad’s fall was the job of the “international community,” and that no US ground troops would be sent to Syria. AS DEBKAfile reported in thee third week of November, the White House has resolved to dump the Assad headache into the laps of Syria’s immediate neighbors, Turkey, Jordan and Israel, and cast the rebels adrift. January 12, 2013 Briefs: • Israel troops shoot two Palestinian infiltrators dead An military border patrol killed a Palestinian attempting to steal through the security fence near Hebron Saturday. Friday, a large group of Palestinians tried to break through the Gaza border fence near Jebalya. The Israeli force first fired warning shots to stop their advance and then aimed at lower limbs when they kept coming. One Palestinian was killed, a second injured. • Israeli police evict 150 Palestinians from E1 Area A large police force early Sunday evicted some 150 Palestinians who established a “settlement” Friday in the E1 Area between Jerusalem and the town of Maaleh Adummim. They were removed from the area and bussed to the West Bank. Their tents remain in place until it is determined whether they are standing on state or privately-owned land. Saturday night, on orders from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the state prosecution petitioned the High Court to annul an earlier temporary injunction against removing the outpost. E1 was meanwhile declared a closed military zone. • Hamas: 885 Palestinians killed in Syrian uprising According to Hamas figures published in Lebanon’s Daily Star Saturday, 885 Palestinians have been killed since the uprising broke out against Bashar Assad nearly two years ago. A further 20,500 Palestinian refugees from Syria are trapped in Lebanon, including least 3,500 who fled last month from the fierce outbreak of violence in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus. France on national terror alert after African operations DEBKAfile Special Report 12 Jan. French President Francois Hollande placed the country on high domestic alert Saturday, Jan. 12, in case of retaliatory attacks by al Qaeda for French operations against two of its African wings: a failed mission to rescue a French hostage from the Somali Shabaab, and air and commando aid for the Mali army’s drive to stop advancing Islamists. The Islamists threatened to execute at least eight French hostages one by one, unless French forces pulled out of Somalia and Mali at once. Hollande said France had intervened in Mali because the wider Sahel region of West Africa was becoming an Afghanistan-like base for Islamist terrorists and threatened to establish a terrorist stage threatening all of Africa within range of Europe and France. January 13, 2013 Briefs: • Chief of staff sacks former C-in-C aide Wiener Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has sacked Brig. Erez Wiener, bureau chief of ex-army C-in-C Gaby Ashkenazi over the State Comptroller’s disclosure of his leading role two years ago with disgraced ex-officer Boaz Harpaz in digging out information to malign the defense minister and block Yoav Galant, his appointee’s appointment as chief of staff. • Egyptian court orders new trial for Hosni Mubarak The court Sunday accepted the former Egyptian ruler’s appeal against his conviction and life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that overthrew him. Mubarak was moved to a Cairo military hospital last month. • Netanyahu: Iran is my number one task after my reelection Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu dismissed allegations by ex-PM Ehud Olmert that he wasted billions of dollars preparing for “illusory security escapades” that did not take place. Obama forced out of office in 2009 over a corruption scandal. January 14, 2013 Briefs: • Maj. Gen. Gady Eisenkott takes office as Dep. Chief of Staff He assumed the post Monday in a ceremony conducted by Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, after the state attorney ruled that Israel’s security situation demanded that the office be filled without delay - even during an election campaign. • Netanyahu: The next government must either cut spending or raise taxes In view of the mounting deficit, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a TV interviewer Monday night that the post-election government which he hopes to head will have to decide whether to cut spending or raise taxes. Israelis go to the polls Jan. 22. • Syrian rebels forced out of Taftanaz air base Syrian rebel leaders admitted Jan. 14, that Syrian forces had forced them to retreat from the big Taftanaz air base in the north. DEBKAfile: They never seized the entire base only a small part of it. • Islamists counter French airstrikes, capture Diabaly in central Mali Al Qaeda-led insurgents Monday struck the town of Diabaly in government controlled central Mali in retaliation for French airstrikes Sunday. The rebels fought with reinforcements from Mauritania. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French bombardments had blocked the Islamist advance to the east of Mali, but the situation in the west “remains difficult.” • Iran plans “big-budget” film to “correct Golden Globe-winning Argo Tehran shot back at Ben Afleck’s thriller about the CIA’s rescue of 6 American diplomats from Islamist Iran by announcing plans to make its own epic film to “correct numerous historical distortions” in Hollywood's version of the takeover of the 1979 US embassy takeover by revolutionary students. Argo is banned in Iran but it bootleg copies have a wide circulation.

No Egypt-Israel hot line after Egypt hosts al Qods chiefDEBKAfile Exclusive Report 14 Jan. The IDFs’ closure to civilian traffic of a 182-kilometer long security strip, 300 meters deep, along the Israeli-Egyptian border, resulted, DEBKAfile reports, from the failure of US Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers to breathe life into the US-Egyptian-Israeli partnership for combating terror during his Cairo trip earlier this month. Refusing to reactivate the Cairo-Jerusalem “hot line” for terror, the Egyptians were instead engaged in détente with Iran after Al Qods chief Gen. Qassam Soleimani paid them a secret visit. Deeply impressed with his feat for keeping Bashar Assad in power, President Morsi invited him for expert advice on hanging onto office. Cleansing Sinai of Islamist terrorists was far from his mind. January 15, 2013 Briefs: • Hollande: 750 French troops in Mali to increase French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that a total of 750 troops are taking part in the offensive against Islamist rebels in Mali and their number would increase. During a visit to the French Middle East military base, Peace Camp in Abu Dhabi, Hollande said French overnight strikes “achieved their goal.” French sources commented that the rebels’ conquest Monday of the western town of Diabali "was not a setback.” US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed that the US was backing French forces in Mali. • New secret tunnel from Gaza runs 600m into Israel A tunnel, of the type used by Gazan Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate Israel or pack with explosives for remote detonation, was discovered by a routine IDF patrol Monday. It ran 600 meters into Israeli territory from a point in southern Gaza. Iran to send monkeys into space DEBKAfile Special Report 15 Jan. Iran will parade its ballistic rocket achievements by sending monkeys into space next month. This was announced by Hamid Fazeli, head of the country’s space agency Tuesday, Jan. 15. DEBKAfile: Since firing the first Iranian-made satellite, the 27-kilogram Omid, in February 2009, Tehran has developed a rocket with a payload capacity of 330 kilograms, capable of placing nuclear warheads anywhere on the face of the earth. The Iranians habitually mask advances in their nuclear and missile programs as pure scientific research. Obama ready for first Iranian nuclear test DEBKAfile Special Report 15 Jan. After US intelligence admitted it cannot detect or stop a Syrian chemical attack, US experts now estimate that Iran will not be able to produce enough weapon-grade uranium for one or bombs before mid-2014 “without detection by the West.” DEBKAfile: Barack Obama is preparing the world for the “surprise” of an Iranian nuclear test. The new, delayed dateline, moreover, is based on a false supposition. Already today, Iran has acquired or produced enough enriched uranium to build five nuclear bombs. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told an Israeli TV interviewer Monday night, Jan. 14 that his government had spent billions of shekels to outfit Israel’s Defense Forces with offensive and defensive options hitherto lacking. He stressed Israel is obliged to be extremely strong – whether to stand up to the Iranian nuclear threat and the extremist Islamist wave lashing the Arab world – or to make peace. The new nuances in Netanyahu’s reference to the Iranian nuclear threat suggest that he too is aware of the new winds blowing in Washington. In his latest statement, he departed from his standard assertion that his government would not permit Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and said instead: “The government which I head has invested billions to prepare the country for the Iranian threat.” January 16, 2013 Briefs: • Washington ignores “compelling” evidence of Syrian chemical warfare A leaked State Department report by US diplomats in Turkey, which made a “compelling case” that Bashar Assad’s forces had used poison gas, was dismissed by National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, who said there was no such evidence. • Netanyahu: No return to 1967 borders Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he stands by his refusal to return to the pre-1967 war borders and will make certain to keep Jerusalem united, against international pressure. This was his associates’ comment on the an article by Jeffrey Goldberg quoting Barack Obama as saying Netanyahu does not know what Israel’s best interests are and is driving Israel into grave isolation. Israelis go to the polls for a new parliament and government in six days. • France must triple troops in Mali after no agreement on African force France pledged to triple the size of its 750-strong force fighting an Al Qaeda-rebel force threatening to overrun Mali, after West African army chiefs failed to agree on the deployment of the 3,300 troops promised by the region at a meeting in Bamako Tuesday. The regional force was to have taken over from France. DEBKAfile: This number is a drop in the sand for contending with well-trained, highly mobile al Qaeda and rebel forces equipped with high quality weaponry in broad desert regions. France in Mali fights the unfinished Libyan War DEBKA Video 16 Jan. Neither France nor the US has learned from the Afghanistan War that aerial warfare won’t defeat al Qaeda – certainly not when they are highly-trained in special forces’ tactics and backed by mobile, well-armed local militias with advanced anti-aircraft weapons. Those militias are Touareg tribesmen, trained and armed by the US in Libya as a spearhead against al Qaeda in Africa, who instead defected to the enemy. January 17, 2013 Briefs: • The Algerian operation at the gas field hostage site is ongoing Thursday night there were with no definite figures on the number of 41 hostages held by al Qaeda for two days who survived and how many were freed. Many were used as human shields by their kidnappers, the al Qaeda (AQIM) Islamists who took them hostage Wednesday. Washington reported a US drone joined the Algerian air operation at the embattled Algerian gas field, where the Islamists had threatened to blow up the BP-operated gas facility with their Norwegian, British, Japanese, American, French and other foreign hostages unless France ended its military operation in N. Mali. • Somali Al-Shabaab says French captive killed, fears for 41 hostages The Al Qaeda-linked Somali al-Shabaab rebels claimed Thursday they had executed Denis Allex, the French secret agent held since 2009, after a French mission to rescue him failed Saturday. Al Qaeda’s African wings have threatened to execute all 10 French hostages they are holding unless France ends its Mali offensive. Paris has repeatedly claimed that Denis Allex died in the failed French rescue mission, in which two French soldiers were killed. As DEBKAfile reported earlier, the French intervention in Mali has united al Qaeda’s African factions.

THERE ARE MANY "LYING WONDERS AND MIRACLES" OUT THERE TODAY AS SATAN CONTINUES TO DECEIVE "THE SLEEPING CHURCH". PLEASE READ THIS FINE ARTICLE BY JOSEPH CHAMBERS FROM "RAPTURE READY"!

"LYING WONDERS" BY JOSEPH CHAMBERS 

Many different manifestations previously known almost exclusively to the occult are sweeping the church world. Is it the Holy Spirit or is it "psychic activity?" You will eventually have to answer that question for yourself, hopefully after you finish this article. Sharp division between the real and the false will soon be a requirement for Christian living and church attendance, if not already. For too long the church has drifted like a ship without a rudder. In many congregations, Biblical truth has been treated lightly, while social and emotional matters have demanded attention. This closing hour does not allow for such carelessness, neither does it allow a light treatment of the "spirit of discernment." Those who do not have a firm and conscious hold on Biblical values and Biblical truth will not be able to survive.

A few proof texts of Scripture are not enough for this unprecedented hour. Jesus said, "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:5). Because someone says all the right things about Jesus does not prove that the truth is being spoken. Even if the teacher, pastor, evangelist, or so-called prophet can prove that some of his prophecies have come to pass, that does not prove anything about his standing before God. Psychics, like Jeanne Dixon and Edgar Cayce, have prophesied certain events that came to pass, but their lives and beliefs attest to the absence of the Lord Jesus and His Spirit in their lives.


Over and over the Holy Scripture warns us of these last days. Apostle Paul, speaking specifically about the Antichrist, said the following. "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10). Years ago when I read the Biblical statement made by Jesus, "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." (Matthew 24:24), it made no sense to me. Deceive the very elect if possible? I thought, how could that be? The great Christians that I served the Lord Jesus beside were as solid as a rock. The real church world did not tolerate false doctrines or questionable activity that passed the points of acceptable order. That day is gone.

To Read The Full Article, Please go to:

http://www.raptureready.com/featured/chambers/jc9.html

SOME MORE OF THE LATEST PROPHECY NEWS WATCH HEADLINES AND ARTICLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

Prophecy News Headlines

	Where Is The Us In Bible Prophecy? Pastor Lou Giglio & The New American Moral Revolution A new chapter in America’s moral revolution came last week as Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio withdrew from giving the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony  ....  Click here for full story
	Where Is The Us In Bible Prophecy? China's Space Activities Raising U.S. Satellite Security Concerns The United States is concerned about China's expanding ability to disrupt the most sensitive U.S. military and intelligence satellites, as Beijing pursues its expanded ambitions in space, according to multiple sources in the U.S. government and outside space experts ....  Click here for full story
	Israel: God's Timepiece Obama: I Know What's Best for Israel US President Barack Obama apparently believes that he knows better than Israel's democratically elected leader what is best for the Jewish state ....  Click here for full story
	Rise of Islam Egyptian Court Sentences Christian Family To 15 Years For Converting From Islam The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country ....  Click here for full story
	Christian Worldview and Issues Pastor Saeed Abedini Set for 'Sham' Trial in Iran; Fears Death for Faith in Jesus Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen born in Iran, is facing a quick trial in Tehran on Jan. 21 and has expressed fears that he might be given the death penalty for his Christian work .... Click here for full story
	Increase In Knowledge and Technologies Minority Report Has Arrived: Maryland and Pennsylvania Using Computers To Predict Future Crimes When police in Minority Report predicted who would commit crimes and stopped them before they did it, it was considered so futuristic, the film was set in 2054. Now, however, law enforcers in two American states are using crime-prediction software to predict which freed prisoners are most likely to commit murder, and supervising them accordingly....  Click here for full story
	The Gog/Magog War Russia Building Toward Military Dominance The U.S.S.R. has been gone for just over 21 years now, the terror it once exercised over the West deflated into a patched-up old Halloween ghost. Yet, despite the death of the superpower, Russia's determination to expand its military might has hardly waned .....  Click here for full story

CANCELLATION OF PONTYPRIDD MEETING THIS SATURDAY AT BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH.

Dear Friends,

The New year is now well under way, but unfortunately the first meeting planned has had to be cancelled because of the bad weather we are currently experiencing. The Pontypridd branch of the PWMI were to kick start proceedings this Saturday with their programme of two meetings, with guest speaker, Pastor David Moore from Stoke. However, Pastor Moore does not want to travel from the east Midlands with such a poor weather forecast for the weekend, especially as he wants to return to preach at his own church on Sunday morning. The meeting will probably be re-arranged for later in the year.

Because of this cancellation, the first meeting of the year will now be the Swindon PWMI gathering on Thursday, the 14th February when the youngest member of the PWMI National Council, Dr Paul Wilkinson from the Hazelgrove Fellowship in Stockport will minister on reigning in the Millenium and associated issues. Please contact Tony McLellan on 07931 421157 for more details.

The following evening on the Friday, Brian Gemmell from York, and also from the Bible Prophecy Foundation, will commence his annual visit to South Wales, when he will be ministering at three different locations over the period of February15th to the17th. We were hoping to add a further date on Thursday the 14th at Merthyr, but it now looks like this meeting will be postponed as our contacts there could not find a suitable venue.

However, we are delighted to announce that we will be holding a fine evening of superb Bible Prophecy teaching at The Pontypool branch of the PWMI and the BPF, when Brian will speak on "LAWLESSNESS ON THE LOOSE", as he succintly summarises what devilish practises are happening in the world around us today. The venue is the ZION Church, 4 Pisgah, Road, Talywain, Pontypool, NP4 7HZ (tel Neville Stephens on 07808 251502 for more info).

On the next day, Saturday the 16th February, Brian will be ministering four times at Nancy's Farm in Bassaleg from 11am-5pm (bring your own packed lunch), when his fascinating subject will be "RETURN OF THE BIBLE GIANTS???" when he will teach on fallen angels, the nephilim, demons, satanic influences on the earth, and much more on this scary but very believable scenario! Please contact me on 07808 251502 for more details.

Brian will conclude his mini tour of our area on the Sunday when he will take the morning service at the City Of Refuge Church in Bassaleg, Newport from 10.30am, when his title will be "GOD'S POWER THROUGH THE WORD" (please contact Nancy Williams on 01633 893210 for more info).

Finally for February, the Caldicot branch of the PWMI will be gathering on Friday, the 22nd Feb, when their speaker will be Bryan Sheldon from the Mountjoy Bible School in Newport. Please phone Tom and Pearl Jones on 01291 421850 for further information.

Happy New Year to all of you, and I hope to see you at some of these meetings. For a full guide to of all of the upcoming meetings (with their full addresses) in our area for the year, please go to the top right hand section of this blog where you will find a comprehensive list.

Maranatha Blessings,
Neville.

THIS IS AWESOME!! PLEASE READ AND ENJOY!!

This is awesome! How Great is our God!!!

 

Our Creator and Redeemer . . . and do we THINK about it ???

God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.. . . . .

For example:

-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.

(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number

of days in a week!)

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The four legs of this great beast all bend

forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal

would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums

so that it can rise from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its

two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number

of grains.

-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.

-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.

All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure.

Only the One Who made the Brain and the Heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.

I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I DID.

May God Bless You In Ways You Never Even Dreamed!

I didn't think twice about forwarding this one.

The Bible
When you carry "the Bible", Satan has a headache, when you open it, he collapses,

when he sees you reading it, he loses his strength, AND when you stand on the Word of God,

Satan can't hurt you! And did you also know...

When you are about to forward this email to others, the devil will probably try to discourage

you, but do it anyway.

"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
IN GOD WE TRUST!!!

 

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you've lived.

JOHN McTERNAN WITH A SPLENDID EXPOSITION OF "THIS GENERATION" FROM MATTHEW 24:34.

Matthew 24:34 and “This Generation”.

                       Matthew 24:34 

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Commentary

In February 2011, I debated two atheists, Dan and Bill Courtney from the New York State Free Thinkers. During the debate, we discussed the topic of Bible prophecy. The atheists took the position that Matthew 24:34 was a false prophecy by Jesus Christ because His generation passed away and the events prophesied did not take place. This is a common argument by many who attack the authority of the Bible. The Muslims often use this verse when I debate them.

 

Within Christianity, a doctrine called Preterism (means past) also believes that this verse pertains to the generation of Jesus Christ. The Preterists believe that all prophecy was fulfilled by 70 AD with the extreme view believing that Jesus Christ returned in 70 AD. Because this verse is so often used to attack the authority of Bible prophecy, it is very important to be grounded in the truth of this scripture.

Modern View of Jerusalem From Place of Olivet Discourse

There are two keys to understanding the prophecy of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming as revealed in Matthew 24, also known as the Olivet Discourse. The first is to understand Matthew 24:3, while the second is that Mark and Luke also write about this topic. The three Gospels together: Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are called synoptic and need to be studied together for the complete picture and understanding.

 

Jesus Christ and His disciples were in Jerusalem at the temple. He warned them that the temple was going to be destroyed. The disciples were upset upon hearing this and asked three questions. The questions are found in Matthew 24:3, which becomes very important because it is the basis for understanding Jesus Christ’s words found in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. These topics must be kept in mind when reading the chapters to understand what question He was addressing. The three questions are:

 

1. When shall these things be? (This is the coming destruction of the temple that was currently standing.)

2. What shall be the sign of your (Second) coming?

3. The end of the world.

Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, (1) when shall these things be? and (2) what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of (3) the end of the world?

With this in mind, let’s look at Matthew 24:34 in the context which it was located. In the preceding verses, the Lord was addressing question two which is the “sign of his coming”. This is found in verses 29-31.

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (31) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

These verses are about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the events preceding His return. They are not about the coming destruction of the temple. Then in the following verse, He gives a parable about the “fig tree” putting forth its leaves you know the summer is near. The fig tree blooms very late in the spring, and when it does summertime is very close. The fig tree becomes a timepiece or calendar for an event.

Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

The use of the word “fig tree” is very significant because in the Bible it can represent the nation of Israel. God uses this metaphor and others like it because the nation is supposed to bear spiritual fruit for Him. This is a very important parable as it is found in three gospel accounts: here in Matthew as well as Mark 13:28 and Luke 21:29. The fig tree represents Israel. The foundation of the fig tree representing Israel is found in the Old Testament:

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time …

When studying the gospels, there are many times that the Lord uses a parable about the fig tree. They are usually about bearing fruit, which Israel was not, and the subsequent destruction of the tree for being fruitless. In Matthew 24:32, Jesus Christ is talking about the fig tree coming to life and getting ready to bear fruit and not its destruction. The context of Matthew 24:34 is the generation that sees the events coming to pass regarding the end of the age and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus. THIS generation shall not pass until all the events are fulfilled. Let’s look at the entire section in context to see that the generation in focus is the one that is living during the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and it is not the generation that sees the destruction of the temple. These are two separate events.

Matthew 24:29,30 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

(31) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

(32) Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: (33) So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. (34) Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Luke 21 gives a tremendous key to understanding the setting of the generation mentioned in Matthew 24:34. Luke establishes the connection with the destruction of Jerusalem (Question One) and then restoration  of the city (Question Two). So, events involving Jerusalem become the setting for the final generation. In verses 20 and 21, Luke writes about the destruction of the city and what to look for. This is describing when Jerusalem is about to be destroyed. Jerusalem eventually was destroyed in 70 AD by the Roman army, thus fulfilling the warning of Jesus Christ. This answers the first question: “When shall these things be”?

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. (21) Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

Luke then goes on to say that the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jewish people would not last forever. That Jerusalem would be under the control of the non Jews for only a certain period of time. Jesus Christ referred to this as the “times of the Gentiles”. The exact length of time was not mentioned, but the conclusion would be known as prophetic events would focus on Jerusalem.

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

The prophet Zechariah also wrote, that just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, Jerusalem would again be the capital of a Jewish state, and the city would be the focus of world attention and massive world wars. The wars would end in the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Christ then returns to Jerusalem and this ends the “times of the Gentiles”.

Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

The Second Coming of Jesus Christ comes at the end of the non Jewish control of Jerusalem.  So, according to the synoptic Gospels regarding the Olivet Discourse, we could be the generation that will not pass away until all things be fulfilled. Just prior to the return of Jesus Christ, the world will be in an upheaval. The sun and moon will show signs that perplex people. On earth, nature will be convulsing with worldwide massive earthquakes and the oceans roaring. The events are so frightening that men’s hearts will fail seeing what is happening. Events like these have never happened before but will just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. These events are warnings to the world of Christ’s return.

Luke 21:25,26 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

(27) And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Today, after 1900 years, the Jews are once again back on the land and Israel is a nation. As prophesied by Jesus Christ and the prophets, Jerusalem is once again the capital of a Jewish nation. Hebrew was a dead language, but it was revived and is the national language of Israel. The Israelis even have shekels for money! The fig tree is once again ready to bloom, so we know that “the summer is nigh” or Second Coming of Jesus Christ is near. This is the generation that was mentioned in Matthew 24:34. This is the generation that shall see the end of the age and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

The Lord then went on to say we should watch for we never know when these events might start taking place.

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

The watching was not limited to the generation of Jesus Christ but every generation until He returns.

This is a sign that someone is a real Christian, when he is living with the Blessed Hope: looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

 

1Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

 

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;