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As we pray for the peace of Jerusalem

Daily Prophetic News and Commentary

Tuesday, 4/05/06

 

 

 

Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….

 

Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

 

Disclaimer: The opinions shared in the comments section of each article are the opinions of the commentator and are not meant to be an exact end-all to the study and interpretation of end-times events and how it relates to biblical prophecy.  Much of prophecy is subjective and open to many different interpretations.  What we wish to accomplish in this report is to encourage the reader to be as the Bereans and search the scriptures to see if these things are so (see Acts 17:10-11)

 

 

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The following articles are compiled by:

Rick Allinson

Rick@WatchmenWatching.com

 

 

 



 

 

EU: Give Hamas A Chance To Change

Source: Herald News daily

 

April 5, 2006 -- The European Union held out an olive branch to the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Wednesday, saying Europe did not want it to fail and it should be given a chance to change its attitude to Israel. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told the European Parliament that the 25-nation bloc had been disappointed by the government program put forward by the Islamist movement, but there was room for it to change. "Right now, I stress -- I don‘t know what‘s going to happen in the future -- at the moment, we can‘t regard Hamas as an appropriate speaking partner."We can‘t do that until its views and positions change," he said. But he added: "The Union doesn‘t and shouldn‘t want the Hamas government to fail."

 

Comments:  Does anyone expect that Hamas will change their policy towards Israel? I don’t ever believe that it is possible for a terrorist regime like this to change. The Palestinian government led by Hamas is broke and an empty pocket means no money to pay anyone, not even the people who lead this government. This will lead to a collapse and Hamas will fall like a ton of bricks. There is a carrot dangling in front of the Palestinians and Javier Solana is holding the string. If Hamas changes its ways, it would mean millions of dollars in direct funding and the EU will be generous, very generous. So again, do I believe that Hamas will change its policy towards Israel? Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, they will fill their empty pockets.

 

Note: Policy is only recorded in the KJV one time.

 

Da 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

 

Ho 8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

 

 

 

EU opposes Israel's unilateral actions

Source: China View

 

April 5, 2006 -- A senior European Union (EU) official on external relations on Wednesday expressed opposition to Israel's unilateral actions in resolving the Israel-Palestine issue.  "We strongly believe that Israel's legitimate security concerns cannot be met through unilateral action or decisions imposed by force: only a negotiated settlement will be sustainable," said Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy. Ms Waldner voiced the EU's position in a speech to the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg of Fance. This is the first comprehensive expression of the EU's position on the Middle East after the Israeli elections.  "The EU would only support changes to the pre-1967 borders agreed by consensus between the Parties: we support a two-State solution leading to a final and comprehensive settlement of the conflict, with Israel and a Palestinian State living side-by-side within secure and mutually recognized borders," she said. "We should underline to our Israeli partners the importance of refraining from actions that may prejudice final status negotiations," she added.  After Israeli acting Prime Minister Olmert on Kadima's election victory, the EU has extended congratulations and closely watched the changing situation in the Middle East. According to Ms Waldner, the EU "stands ready to work with the next Israeli Government to promote security and peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

 

 

Comments:  Benita Waldner as I have mentioned, is the European Neighborhood policy Commissioner. Every time I read about her in the news she always has something incredible to say, this time it is peace and security that involves Israel. This should really come as no surprise since we know a peace and secure Israel will come in the form of a “Confirmed Covenant with Many”. The ENP consists of 37 countries, over 800 million people and Israel is included. This partnership of many people promotes peace, security, good governance and the rule of law. There is also a carrot here dangling by a string, the countries that promote good governance in their countries get rewarded with benefits and lots money. The same person holding the string and carrot in front of Hamas also has a string and carrot in front of 17 ENP countries to the east and south. He also helped create the ENP project.

 

Keep Watching!

 

Da 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

 

The following articles are compiled by:

Dave Hilling

Dave@WatchmenWatching.com

 

 

Tornado eyewitnesses: We've only seen such things on TV

 

 

April 5, 2006 --
By Tamara Traubman, Jack Khoury, Revital Levy-Stein, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service

 

A tornado and other stormy weather wreaked havoc across Israel on Tuesday and weather-related accidents caused injuries to at least 70 people.

 

The tornado and accompanying heavy storms raged across the Western Galilee and hailstones the size of Ping-Pong balls were reported.

 

A total of 70 people, including 20 children, were admitted to the Nahariya hospital in the wake of the violent weather. Most of the patients suffered light injuries from flying objects or from road accidents. Two children, aged six and seven, suffered deep cuts in the storm.

 

Meteorologist Nachum Malik confirmed that the Western Galilee storm was a tornado and said it was an indication of increasingly unpredictable weather in the country.

 

"When this kind of phenomenon occurs over water it is called a water spout, but when it occurs over land it is called a tornado. To use military terminology, this is escalation in terms of weather and a very rare occurrence in Israel. This is an example of how extreme the weather in Israel has become," he said.

 

Comments: That Malik would have to name the type of storm is an indication of just how rare a tornado is in Israel. In my opinion, such weather disturbances will only become more and more common the closer we get to the Tribulation period, as Israel continues to divide its God-given land. Nor do I consider it a coincidence that the tornado in Israel happened the same day that tornadoes ripped through the American South and Midwest.

 

Joel 3:2: I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

 

 

 

Bush Admin. $15B AIDS Plan Questioned

 

April 5, 2006 -- The Bush administration's $15 billion global AIDS initiative is emphasizing sexual abstinence and fidelity more than Congress intended, and that focus is undermining prevention efforts in poor countries, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

 

U.S. teams on the ground in Africa and other poor areas told Congress' Government Accountability Office that the requirement that they spend a specific percentage of their money on abstinence is hurting some efforts to tailor prevention programs to countries' needs.

 

The directives are creating confusion and forcing reduction in some programs deemed necessary for pregnant women, high-risk groups like truck drivers and sex workers, married couples and sexually active youths, the GAO said.

 

 

Comments:  I’m sorry if the facts don’t suit the US Congress, but abstinence and fidelity are the only known ways to prevent the spread of AIDS. Treating AIDS after someone already has the disease is expensive and cruel. The Bush Administration is to be commended for their efforts to promote abstinence and fidelity. This has always been the Lord God’s plan for male-female relations.

 

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 

 

 

DHS Official Charged in Online Seduction

 

April 5, 2006 -- MIAMI - A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl.

 

Brian J. Doyle, 55, the fourth-ranking official in the department's public affairs office, was expected to appear in court Wednesday afternoon in Maryland and also to be placed on administrative leave.

 

"He said last night that he was going to waive extradition. If he does that, we may have him back by the end of the week," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday. "He could get to court today and some lawyer may say 'no, you don't want to do that.' The bottom line is we don't know when he's coming back."

 

Comments:: It looks like holding a respectable and responsible position is no bar to predatory behavior. This man needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. As we get closer to the end, I fear that this sort of thing will only become more common. We must protect our children.

 

Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

 

2Timothy 3:1-7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

 

Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

 

 

The following articles are compiled by:

Leo Wong

Leo@WatchmenWatching.com

 

Gospel of Judas to be presented this week

Source: ANSA

 

April 5, 2006 -- A fourth-century papyrus manuscript containing the long-lost 'Gospel of Judas' will be presented in Washington on Thursday.

 

The Gospel of Judas is one of several ancient accounts of Christ's life which were rejected as suspect by the fathers of the early Church and so they did not become part of the Bible.

 

Vatican officials have denied that the publication this week is part of a rehabilitation of Judas by the Catholic Church.  The document reportedly argues that Judas Iscariot, known to Christians as the man who betrayed Jesus Christ, was an essential part of God's design and, as such, almost a hero.

 

Without his betrayal, Jesus would not have been crucified and so, the argument goes, God's plan to save mankind from its sins would not have been fulfilled.

 

Italy's top Catholic writer, Vittorio Messori, noted however that the text does raise interesting questions about the role of Judas in the Christ story.

 

Interviewed by the Turin daily La Stampa, he noted that a key difference between the Gospel of Judas and the Bible accounts concerns the question of forgiveness.

 

Messori recalled that in the apocryphal account Judas is forgiven: "He weeps, Jesus forgives him and in order to purify him he sends Judas into the desert to do spiritual exercises."

 

In the New Testament, in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is quoted as saying: "Woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born." After the betrayal, they never meet again and, overcome with remorse, Judas commits suicide. Christ atones for the sins of humanity but never specifically forgives Judas.

 

Messori said the lack of forgiveness in the Bible account appeared strange in a man who preached forgiveness.

 

Comments:  The Gospel of Judas came straight from the bottomless pit!  It’s a false gospel created by the Devil to deceive the unsaved and to try to shaken the faith of blood bought Christians.  It’s not part of the inspired Word of God, the Bible.  Judas died an unsaved man.  Who said so?  The Lord Jesus said of Judas:

 

John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition (Judas); that the scripture might be fulfilled.

 

Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

 

Judas is a lost soul presently being incarcerated in a place called Hell, the holding cell for all lost souls who will eventually be cast into the lake of fire along with the Devil, his wicked angels, the Antichrist and the False Prophet.

 

This Catholic writer dared to question the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Judas had his many opportunities to get saved, but his love for money (30 pieces of silver) led him to betray Jesus.  Judas was the Devil’s fool.  He then hung himself and entered Hell.

 

The Apostle Paul warned believers about false gospels being propagated in the last days and for us to shun them at all cost.

 

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed (i.e. let him go to Hell).

 

Verse 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

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Bible Society won't print 'Jesus Loves Porn Stars' Bibles

Source:  The Christian Post

 

April 5, 2006 -- Two Corona pastors who minister to the adult film industry have hit a roadblock in their crusade. Their publishing company is refusing to print Bibles with the brand ''Jesus Loves Porn Stars'' emblazoned on the cover.

 

They thought putting an edgy cover on the bibles could get them attention and increase their distribution.  So they paid the American Bible Society (ABS) to print 10,000 copies of the Scriptures. But the publisher backed down after hearing about the cover concept.

 

The ABS says while it appreciates the pastors' mission, the words "Jesus Loves Porn Stars" are “misleading and inappropriate for a New Testament."

 

Comments:  This was a missed/wasted opportunity, in my opinion, to present the Gospel of God to the porn peddlers.  The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus loves ALL sinners although he hates ALL sins.  Love the sinners but eschew sins = what our Lord would have all believers in Christ to practise, but the Bible Society’s reasoning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.  The “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” statement certainly does not make Jesus appear as He is condoning the sins of carnality, fornication and adultery.   Refusing to print such adorned Bibles spanks of legalism and tradition when countless souls are lost and are heading full-speed straight to Hell.

 

May we have a fervent love for perishing souls and lead them to the foot of the cross where Jesus died and shed His blood for the forgiveness of sins.

 

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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Proposed gay games event divides Illinois town

Source: Associated Press

 

April 5, 2006 -- Among the items on the City Council's agenda seems a simple matter: Whether to give rowers a permit to have a boat race this summer on a small man-made lake. But because the rowers are gay - participating in something called the Gay Games - what would normally be a mundane debate about parking and street closures is instead a heated battle between those who see the event as a threat to their small-town way of life and those who see such views as simply small-minded.

 

On Tuesday, the City Council was scheduled to discuss whether to allow the Olympics-style Gay Games to hold its rowing event in this bedroom community of 40,000 about 50 miles northwest of Chicago.

 

One look at the angry letters to the editor that have frequently appeared in the local newspaper revealed it isn't the logistics of the race that's on residents' minds.

 

"Make no mistake: The purpose of the Gay Games is to legitimize homosexuality and make it appear as a wholesome lifestyle choice," wrote Tim Coakley, a critic of the games.

 

In the same day's paper, Perry and Christine Koste dismissed such views. After wondering if Crystal Lake's motto should be "homophobic capital of the Midwest," they asked, "How proud are we to live in such a narrow-minded, backward hateful community?"

 

Comments: Gay games. What will they come up with next?  As was in the days of Lot, today’s sodomites are shamelessly parading themselves in public and demanding equal rights and exposure.  The few God fearing people in this world who are protesting society’s growing acceptance of the abhorrent gay lifestyle are being vilified as “narrow-minded” and mocked. What did Jesus say about the broad and narrow paths as they pertain to eternal death and everlasting life respectively?  Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.  Verse 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 

The unrepentant homosexuals and lesbians are on the broad path (marked out by the Devil) and unless they change course, they are headed straight to Hell.  Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone when God had enough of the repugnant sin bellowing from those two cities.  Can modern day Sodom cities such San Francisco, Vancouver Canada, Chicago, etc., be spared God’s wrath?  If they were, God would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, but He won’t have to.  Judgment upon the sodomites of this world is just around the bend once Christians have been removed from the scene.

 

Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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Doctors reattach piece of Sharon's skull

Source: CNN.com

 

April 5, 2006 -- Doctors reattached a piece of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's skull on Wednesday, a day after the surgery was delayed because of a respiratory infection, hospital officials said.

 

The operation was the eighth for Sharon since he suffered a debilitating stroke on January 4. Doctors had removed the piece of skull during a previous operation on his brain.

 

Sharon was taken back to his room in the intensive care unit, where he has been hospitalized since his massive stroke.

 

Comments:  What is the purpose of keeping Ariel Sharon alive aside from a doctor’s sworn duty (Hippocratic Oath) to do so?  In some other countries such as the Netherlands, Sharon’s lifeline would have been pulled months ago according to the relatives’ wish.  Even if he does come out of his comatose state, he won’t likely resume normal living. He’s essentially in a vegetated state.  Only by some miracle from God would he recover to his pre‑stroke condition.

 

Is this a political ploy to announce to the Arab/Muslim world that one of Israel’s most decorated war heroes won’t go down without a tenacious fight and Israel won’t either.  (Israel’s existence has never been so threatened with ravenous foes all around her perimeter ready to pounce on her.)  Surely, many in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Damascus, Lebanon and elsewhere would rejoice and dance in the streets when Sharon is declared dead.  That’s how much this former decorated general is hated among Israel’s enemies.  He has been a stalwart defender of the State of Israel and a strong comfort for every Israeli citizen, a sort of protective patriarch.  His passing would create a sense of fear among the Israelis and inject bravery and a swagger among Israel’s enemies.

 

Ariel Sharon’s 180 degree turnaround from an unyielding hawk to a compromiser (appease and disengage) has befuddled many of us, nevertheless, this man needs our prayers that somehow, God’s Holy Spirit will speak to his mind (no matter how feeble it is) and he’ll turn to the God of his ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and be eternally saved.  He as done much to preserve Israel over the past decades and God loves each of His chosen people including the terminally ill Ariel Sharon.

 

John 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he (Jesus) loved him.

 

Until next time,

Shalom!

 

 

 

 

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