Amir Tsarfati's Special Middle East Update - December 30, 2018

Will Israeli-Iranian Shadow War Trigger Ezekiel 38?

Will Israeli-Iranian Shadow War Trigger Ezekiel 38?   It didn't take long for the recent Israeli Air Force strikes on Iranian/ Hezbollah targets in the Damascus area to receive Russian condemnation.     The Top 5 Prophetic Trends of 2018   As 2018 draws to a close, what are the biggest prophetic trends we see and what should we look for in 2019?     All The Cool Girls Are Transitioning: An Epidemic Of Teenage Gender Confusion   Peer pressure almost never pushes teenagers to good places. Recently, it's been pushing them to the gender clinic.       China's Pastors Take Their Stand: Jesus Is Lord   In the spirit of Peter and John, a group of at least 250 Chinese pastors has publicly signed a joint statement opposing new regulations that clamp down on the church in China.

New York Times Propaganda: “Muslim Could Teach Trump Supporters About Jesus

Updates from John McTernan's Insights New York Times Propaganda: “Muslim Could Teach Trump Supporters About Jesus By John McTernan on Dec 31st  I read the article and it was head spinning to read all the lies about President Trump. This article is just an outright attack on "white evangelicals" for supporting President Trump. Read in browser » Recent Articles: YouTube/FaceBook Sunday Night: “Looking For Blessed Hope” City slapped down for forcing churches to bow to LGBT agenda Saturday YouTube: Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Revival for Survival) Women’s March Organizer: ‘White Jews, as White People, Uphold White Supremacy YouTube Thursday Night Teaching: Jesus Christ Came to Heal the Broken Heart/Mind (Part 2)

Netanyahu Says Brazil Will Be Moving Their Embassy To Jerusalem To Join Growing List Of Nations Already There

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Netanyahu Says Brazil Will Be Moving Their Embassy To Jerusalem To Join Growing List Of Nations Already There by Geoffrey Grider In Rio, Netanyahu tells local Jewish leaders that Jair Bolsonaro told him he’ll make good on his promise to relocate Brasilia’s mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem It takes tremendous courage to defy the majority to go it alone and do the right thing. President Trump showed courage not displayed by Obama, either of the Bushies, Slick Willy Clinton, or even Ronald Reagan for that matter when he walked in the footsteps of Harry S. Truman, defied all the talking heads, and did the right thing regarding Israel. "Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD."Psalm 135:21 (KJV) President Trump was the first to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem, then Guatemala followed, Australia is talking about it, and now Brazil says it will absolutely happen. God promises a blessing for those who are willing to bless Israel, and He also promises a curse for those who curse Israel. That means about 98% of the entire United Nations is under a curse. Ironically, the very existence of the UN is fulfilling prophecy that says it is God's desire to 'gather the nations" to destroy them when they come against Israel. "Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy." Zephaniah 3:8 (KJV) Netanyahu: Brazilian leader said embassy move a matter of ‘when, not if’ FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Brazilian Jewish leaders on Sunday that Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro informed him that he would like to relocate the Latin American country’s mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “It’s a question of when, not if,” Netanyahu said, according to a source present at the meeting. The statement came after Netanyahu and Bolsonaro met on Friday, and after an Israeli government source insisted Saturday that Brazil’s embassy move to Jerusalem was merely “a matter of time.” “The situation is similar to US President Donald Trump’s declaration” that he planned to move the US embassy in December of 2017, the source said. “He declared it and he carried it out later on.” The US embassy move took place in May of 2018, six months after Trump stated his intention to do so. Netanyahu had announced his trip to Brazil following a November 1 tweet from Bolsonaro indicating he intends to move the Brazilian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following in Trump’s footsteps. Bolsonaro later backtracked by saying “it hasn’t been decided yet.” On Friday, Bolsonaro said he expects to visit Israel by March 2019, after accepting an invitation by Netanyahu. Netanyahu arrived in Brazil on Friday, accompanied by his wife Sara and son Yair, and the family is set to stay on through Tuesday to join other foreign dignitaries at the inauguration in Brasilia of Bolsonaro, a far-right, security-conscious politician and former army officer who was elected in October on pledges to crack down on endemic crime and corruption. FLASHBACK: LIKE TRUMAN BEFORE HIM IN 1948, PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST NOW RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL “We will be starting a difficult government from January, but Brazil has potential,” Bolsonaro said Friday, indicating that his Israel visit would come, in part, to reciprocate Netanyahu’s trip to Brazil. “So that we can overcome obstacles, we need good allies, good friends, good brothers, like Benjamin Netanyahu.” Netanyahu’s is the first-ever visit by an Israeli prime minister to Brazil. READ MORE

In this mailing: Uzay Bulut: Turkey's War on Christian Missionaries Amir Taheri: The Growing Poverty of Political Debate Turkey's War on Christian Missionaries by Uzay Bulut  •  December 30, 2018 at 5:00 am          American Pastor Andrew Brunson and American-Canadian evangelist David Byle are among many Christian clerics who have fallen victim to Turkey's aversion to Christianity. According to Claire Evans, regional manager of the organization International Christian Concern, "Turkey is making it increasingly clear that there is no room for Christianity, even though the constitution states otherwise." Today, only around 0.2% of Turkey's population of nearly 80 million is Christian. The 1913-1923 Christian genocide across Ottoman Turkey and the 1955 anti-Greek pogrom in Istanbul are some of the most important events that largely led to the destruction of the country's ancient Christian community. Yet, still today in Turkey, Christian missionaries and citizens continue to be oppressed. "One issue that differentiates Turkey from the rest of the world is that our national identity is primarily shaped by religious identity. What makes a Turk a Turk is not so much due to ethnicity, or the language people speak, but is primarily about being Muslim... A large majority of Turkish people think there is nothing in ‎their history that they should be ashamed of. [They] don't feel close to Europe or to the Middle East; they basically feel close to only themselves... one striking fact is that we [asked] if everybody would be a Turk, would the world be a better place, and Turks gave a very high rating. No self-criticism whatsoever." — Professor Ali Çarkoğlu of Koç University, who conducted a survey on nationalism with Professor Ersin Kalaycıoğlu of Sabancı University. Bishop Luigi Padovese, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, Turkey, was murdered in 2010 by his driver, who shouted, "Allahu Akbar" as he slit the priest's throat. (Image source: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons) The day after American pastor Andrew Brunson was released from Turkish prison, another Christian who had been living for nearly two decades in the country was detained by Turkish authorities, and told that he had two weeks to leave the country -- without his wife and three children. The American-Canadian evangelist, David Byle, not only suffered several detentions and interrogations over the years, but he had been targeted for deportation on three occasions. Each time, he was saved by court rulings. This time, however, he was unable to prevent banishment, and left the country after two days in a detention center. When he tried to return to his family in Turkey on November 20, he was denied re-entry. According to Claire Evans, regional manager of the organization International Christian Concern: Continue Reading Article The Growing Poverty of Political Debate by Amir Taheri  •  December 30, 2018 at 4:00 am          The European Union, too, is clearly on the decline. Despite Pollyannish talk of creating a European army and closer ties among member states, the EU has lost much of its original appeal and faces fissiparous challenges of which the so-called Brexit is one early example. I believe that the only way for the EU to survive, let alone prosper, is to recast itself as a club of nation-states rather than a substitute for them. Another significant trend concerns the virtual collapse of almost all political parties across the globe. Within the year now ending, a number of mostly new parties forced their ways into the center of power in several European countries notably Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Holland and Sweden. Interestingly, the more ideological a party is, the more vulnerable it is to the current trend of decline in party politics. This is why virtually all Communist and nationalist parties have either disappeared or been reduced to a shadow of their past glory. The massive development of cyberspace has given single-issue politics an unexpected boost. Today, almost anyone anywhere in the word could create his or her own echo-chamber around a pet subject. Here, the aim is to fight for one's difference with as much passion as possible.That trend is in contrast with another trend, promoted by the traditional, or mainstream media, offering a uniform narrative of events. Turn on any TV or radio channel and go through almost any newspaper and you will be surprised by how they all say the same thing about what is going on. The weakening of political parties, trade unions, international organs, and institutions like parliaments that provided platforms for debate and decision-making, has deprived many societies of both a space and a mechanism for the battle of ideas and the competition among different policy options. (Image source: iStock) As the year 2018 draws to a close, what are the trends that it highlighted in political life? The first trend represents a growing global disaffection with international organizations to the benefit of the traditional nation-state. Supporters of the status quo regard that trend as an upsurge of populism and judge it as a setback for human progress whatever that means. Today it is not the United Nations alone that is reduced to a backseat driver on key issues of international life. Its many tentacles, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, too, have been reduced to a shadow of their past glory. In the 1990s, the two outfits held sway on the economies of more than 80 countries across the globe with a mixture of ideology and credit injection. Today, however, they are reduced to cheer-leading or name-calling from the ringside. Continue Reading Article

Prophecy Update End Times News Headlines - 12/29/18

"City slapped down for forcing churches to bow to LGBT agenda" By Dr John McTernan!

Updates from John McTernan's Insights City slapped down for forcing churches to bow to LGBT agenda By John McTernan on Dec 30th  This is a wonderful victory over the reprobates. The problem is look how low the nation has fallen, and what if some other judge upholds a law like this! We are now at the mercy of the judges which is not good! The culture is broken. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Women’s March Organizer: ‘White Jews, as White People, Uphold White Supremacy YouTube Thursday Night Teaching: Jesus Christ Came to Heal the Broken Heart/Mind (Part 2) YouTube Wednesday Night: Teaching Jesus Christ Came to Heal the Broken Heart – Mind (Part1) Scandinavian Women Murdered in Morocco Were Victims of the Left YouTube and FaceBook Tuesday Night: Prayer

UK Welcomes Extremists, Bans Critics of Extremists by Douglas Murray  •  December 29, 2018 at 5:00 am          In November, it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered asylum by the British government due to concerns about "community" relations in the UK. What this means is that the UK government was worried that Muslims of Pakistani origin in Britain may object to the presence in the UK of a Christian woman who has spent most of the last decade on death row in Pakistan, before being officially declared innocent of a trumped-up charge of "blasphemy". One person who has had no trouble being in London is Dr Ataollah Mohajerani, Iran's former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Mohajerani is best known for his book-length defence of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against the British novelist Salman Rushdie. This week we learned that the UK government has allowed in a man called Brahim Belkaid, a 41-year old of German origin, believed to have inspired up to 140 people to join al-Qaeda and ISIS. His Facebook messages have included messages with bullets and a sword on them saying, "Jihad: the Only Solution". It is almost as though the UK government has decided that while extremist clerics can only rarely be banned, critics of such clerics can be banned with ease. The problem is that the trend for taking a laxer view of extremists than of their critics keeps on happening. Britain's idea of who should be allowed to travel to the country (and stay) looks ever more perverse. One person who had no trouble immigrating to the UK is Dr Ataollah Mohajerani, Iran's former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, who wrote a book-length defence of the Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence against the British novelist Salman Rushdie. Pictured: Salman Rushdie in 2015. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images) The British government's idea of who is -- and who is not -- a legitimate asylum seeker becomes stranger by the month. In November it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered asylum by the British government due to concerns about "community" relations in the UK. What this means is that the UK government was worried that Muslims of Pakistani origin in Britain may object to the presence in the UK of a Christian woman who has spent most of the last decade on death row in Pakistan, before being officially declared innocent of a trumped-up charge of "blasphemy". Yet, as Asia Bibi – surely one of the people in the world most needful of asylum in a safe country – continues to fear for her life in her country of origin, Britain's idea of who should be allowed to travel to the country (and stay) looks ever more perverse. Continue Reading Article

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The Other Intersectionality: Victims of Islamism by Kenneth Levin  •  December 28, 2018 at 5:00 am          Censored from today's campuses is discussion of another, in various respects competing, intersectionality: That of the shared, intersecting, predicaments of today's victims of Islamist aggression, including terrorism. Hamas's operatives have trained in Sudan and worked with Sudanese forces, including those that have been engaged in the Darfur genocide. This is the organization whose supporters are leading movers behind the campus intersectionality/boycott campaign and have become the moral arbiters of campus political correctness. Of those killed at the Twin Towers on 9/11, 215 were black (136 men, 79 women). Other African Americans were murdered in subsequent Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks in California and Florida and elsewhere, and are as likely to be victims of future such terror attacks as anyone else. But work to prevent, and minimize the impact, of such assaults apparently counts for no more to Black Lives Matter, when weighed against promoting an anti-Israel agenda, than it does to SJP and other Hamas-linked groups. The "intersectionality" promoted on campuses and beyond by Hamas/SJP and their fellow travelers seeks, in pursuit of its anti-Israel agenda, to distract attention from the Islamist onslaught, its ongoing savaging of populations in Africa, Asia and America. The term "intersectionality" was coined by an African-American academic, Kimberlé Crenshaw, in 1989 to denote the circumstance of being the target of more than one bias. Crenshaw saw herself as the potential victim of both anti-black racism and misogyny, thereby living at the intersection of the two bigotries. In recent years, the term has gained prominence on many of the nation's campuses to signify something else: the supposed shared, "intersecting," predicaments of racial and ethnic groups -- as well as women and sexual minorities -- victimized by white male racism and its history of imperialism, colonialism, exploitation and slavery. Continue Reading Article