History of the Promise Land & Israel

* * * Note:   This is yet incomplete, but I thought it better to publish 80% done rather than 100% never. * * *
  
The squeeze play plight of Gaza's people is a chronic, sad tale.

Nobody likes Hamas except the people of Gaza who elect and re-elect them as their political leaders.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood wants Gaza under its power and control.  The Muslin Brotherhood was removed from power in Egypt by a military coup in July 2013, so Egypt has closed its borders to Gaza, except for a rare humanitarian aid shipment.  Egypt wants to squeeze the Gazian people until the people submit to Egyptian influence and rule by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Brief History of Jews and Israel

My thanks to CBC News,  Wikipedia, and many other Internet sources, as summarized here:

~1312 BC Israelites leave Egypt under the leadership of Moses, and the protection of God, headed for the Promised Land  (Middle East), which was promised to them forever by God.  God blessed the Israelites because of His covenant with Abraham, as well as the sins and evil done by those who were then occupying the Promised Land.  As the Israelites grow in population and skill, they slowly displace all previous occupants with God's never ending help.









~1003 BC  King David captures from the Jebusites what will become the City of David and Jerusalem.  David buys the threshing floor as the alter site for worshiping God.

c. 740 BC–c. 722 BC   The Northern Kingdom falls into sin and away from God.  God finally resorts to punishing them when Israel falls to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and its former inhabitants disappeared from history as "The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel".  The Southern Kingdom of Judah, including Jerusalem, continued under Hebrew rule.

 

In 721 BC, Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians

 

586 BC   Kingdom of Judah falls into more and more sin, and away from God.  God finally punishes the Jews by the invasion of Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar, Solomon's Temple is destroyed, and thousands of Jews are placed into slavery captivity in Babylon for 70 years, including the Prophet Daniel.

 539 BC   After 70 years of punishment in captivity, God arranges for the Persians to invade and conquer Babylonian Kingdom.  The Jews are released from captivity, and the Persian King Cyrus authorizes the Jews to inhabit and rebuild Jerusalem, including a new Temple.

332 BC   Alexander The Great invades everywhere, including Israel and Jerusalem, all as foretold by Biblical prophecy by Prophet Daniel.  Impressed by the prophesy, Jerusalem is spared from destruction, but is placed under Alexander's control.  After the Greeks were finished, next came the Ptolemies of Egypt, then the Seleucids of Syria to hold the Jews captive.

167–161 BC   The Jewish Maccabees lead a successful revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, recapture Jerusalem, and commemorate their victory with Hanukkah holiday; still celebrated today by all Jews.

 

63 BCE   Roman General Pompey the Great lay siege to and entered Jerusalem and the Temple.  All of Judea became a client kingdom of Rome.

66–70 AD   The First Jewish–Roman War ended with destruction of the Second Temple and the fall of Jerusalem. 1,100,000 people are killed by the Romans during the siege, and 97,000 captured and enslaved.

115–117 AD    Kitos War (Revolt against Trajan) – a second Jewish-Roman War initiated in large Jewish communities of Cyprus, Cyrene (modern Libya), Aegipta (modern Egypt) and Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq). It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans, ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination of Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed Emperor Hadrian.

131–136 AD   The Roman emperor Hadrian, among other provocations, renames Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina" and prohibits circumcision. Simon bar Kokhba (Bar Kosiba) leads a large Jewish revolt against Rome in response to Hadrian's actions. In the aftermath, most Jewish population is annihilated (about 580,000 killed) and Hadrian renames the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina, so as to help root out Judaism.

138 AD   With Emperor Hadrian's death, the persecution of Jews within the Roman Empire is eased and Jews are allowed to visit Jerusalem on Tisha B'av (Ninth of Av, a day of mourning for destruction of Jerusalem & Temple on this day). In the following centuries the Jewish center moves to Galilee. 

361–363 AD   The last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian, allows the Jews to return to "holy Jerusalem which you have for many years longed to see rebuilt" and to rebuild the Second Temple. Shortly after, the Emperor is assassinated, and the plan is dissolved. 

438 AD   The Empress Eudocia removes the ban on Jews' praying at the Jerusalem Temple site and the heads of the Community in Galilee issue a call "to the great and mighty people of the Jews": "Know that the end of the exile of our people has come"! 

610–628 AD   Jews of Galilee led by Benjamin of Tiberias gain autonomy in Jerusalem after revolting against Heraclius as a joint military campaign with ally Sassanid Empire under Khosrau II and Jewish militias from Persia, but are subsequently massacred. 

1095–1291 AD   Christian Crusades begin, sparking warfare with Islam in Palestine. Crusaders temporarily capture Jerusalem in 1099. Tens of thousands of Jews are killed by European crusaders throughout Europe and in the Middle East.

 

1141 AD   Yehuda Halevi issues a call to the Jews to emigrate to Palestine. He is buried in Jerusalem.

 

1187 AD   Upon the capture of Jerusalem, Saladin summons the Jews and permits them to resettle in the city. In particular, the residents of Ashkelon, a large Jewish settlement, respond to his request.

 

1267 AD   Nahmanides (Ramban) settles in Jerusalem and builds the Ramban Synagogue.

1488 AD   Obadiah ben Abraham, commentator on the Mishnah, arrives in Jerusalem and marks a new epoch for the Jewish community. 

 

1700 AD   Rabbi Judah HeHasid makes aliyah (emigration to Jerusalem & Land of Israel, and Palestine) accompanied by hundreds of his followers.

 

1740 AD   Ottoman authorities invite Rabbi Haim Abulafia (1660–1744), renowned Kabbalist and Rabbi of Izmir, to come to the Holy Land. Rabbi Abulafia is to rebuild the city of Tiberias, which has lain desolate for some 70 years. The city's revival is seen by many as a sign of the coming of the Messiah.

1740–1750 AD   Thousands of Jews immigrate to Palestine under the influence of Messianic predictions. The large immigration greatly increases the size and strength of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine.

 

1799 AD   While French troops were in Palestine besieging the city of Acre, Napoleon prepared a Proclamation requesting Asian and African Jews to help him conquer Jerusalem, but his unsuccessful attempt to capture Acre prevented it from being issued.

 

1808–1840 AD   Large-scale aliyah in hope of Hastening Redemption in anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah in 1840.

 

1834–1835 AD   Muslims and Druze attack Jews in Safed, Hebron & in Jerusalem.

 

1860–1875 AD   Moshe Montefiori builds Jewish neighbourhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem starting with Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

 

1870–1890 AD   Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.

 

1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920 AD   Three major waves of pogroms (persecutions) kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920; 75% heading to USA, balance to Europe and elsewhere. 

 

1881 AD   On December 30–31, the First Congress of all Zionist Unions for the colonization of Palestine was held at Focşani, Romania.

 

1882–1903 AD   Based on the 1881 Congress, the First Aliyah, a major wave of Jewish immigrants occurs to build a homeland in Palestine.

 

1890 AD   The term "Zionism" is coined by an Austrian Jewish publicist Nathan Birnbaum in his journal Self Emancipation and was defined as the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

 

1897 AD   In response to the Dreyfus affair, Theodore Herzl writes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), advocating the creation of a free and independent Jewish state in Israel.  

 

1897 AD   The First Zionist Congress was held at Basel, Switzerland which brought the World Zionist Organization (WZO) into being. 

 

1916, May 16   British and French negotiate a secret treaty on how the Middle East and Ottoman Empire will be divided up amongst European powers after the end of First World War.

 

1917
    The British defeat the Turks and gain control of Palestine.   At this time, there were approximately 50,000 Jews; 50,000 Christians; and more than 700,000 Arab Muslims in the areas comprising Israel and Palestine of today.  In the USA, there were 20 million Americans who had German ancestry, and 3.5 million Jews.  Over the course of next few decades, however, the demographics were changed by shipping hundreds of thousands of East European Jews to Palestine.The British issue the Balfour Declaration (Nov. 2, 1917) which gives official British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Many Jews interpret this to mean that all of Palestine was to become a Jewish state.

 

1935   There were now 300,000 Jews in Palestine. Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, had 100,000 people.  

 Palestinian Liberation Organization ("PLO"), a political group started in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others.  PLO used and/or sponsored terrorism from 1965 onwards as their prime method to achieve their political goals, until around 1988.

Jordon declared the West Bank to be officially separated and independent from Jordon in 1988, forming the State of Palestine.

After the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, Israel considered PLO to have renounced terrorism. In 1993, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat recognized the State of Israel in an official letter to Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In response to Arafat's letter, Israel decided to revise its stance toward the PLO and to recognize the organization as the representative of the Palestinian people. This led to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, where the Palestinian Authority, lead by Arafat, was created for self-government of the West Bank and Gaza.  However, the PLO has employed violence in the years since 1993, particularly during the 2000-2005 Second Intifada.



Palestinian Islamic Jihad ("PIJ") is an extremely violent and hard lined terrorist organization in Gaza, that has sought the destruction and removal of Israel.  PIJ is in direct competition against Hamas.  PIJ says they don't hate Jews, but they strongly hate the State of Israel.  PIJ used to be much more powerful in Gaza, resents their loss of power to Hamas, so makes trouble for Hamas, and tries to upstage them (eg. by antagonizing and attacking Israel and Jews, blaming it on Hamas if it fails, and claiming responsibility if it succeeds).

Palestinian National Authority ("PNA") controls the West Bank area, and was kicked out of Gaza by Hamas in June 2007.  PNA is controlled by Fatah (a.k.a. Palestinian Liberation Organization, "PLO"), a political group started in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others, and has used and/or sponsored terrorism to achieve their political goals throughout their existence.

CBC Radio Documentary:   Fifty Years After The Six Days War
 




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Nuclear War will soon destroy many

Everybody wants a piece of Syria, and are willing to do anything to get it their way.  This will soon lead to World War 3 with nuclear attacks.

Israel appears to want Syria to become a failed state.  Israel seems to think that the failure of Syria means that the Golan Heights captured and held by Israel since the 1967 War will become 100% and officially part of Israel.  Ever since huge shale oil deposits were found in Golan Heights in 2012, Israel has re-doubled its efforts to hold these lands.  Israel also wants even more of Syria, maybe as far as Syrian border with Iraq, equal to the Promised Land at the time of Moses.

Israel has been offering medical assistance to wounded ISIS fighters.  They seem to pretend that this is 100% humanitarian, but in reality Israel wants ISIS to defeat Bashir al Assad so that Israel can take what they covent of Syria's territory.

The Sunni Muslim government of Saudi Arabia want to use Syria to defeat the Shia Muslim government of Iran and its allies.

Russia needs Assad's Syrian government to block the natural gas pipeline from Qatar, which would pass through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and then on the Europe.  Since Russia gains 60% of its GDP from oil and natural gas sales, and natural gas sold to Western Europe is a major part of Russia's sales, and Qatar's proposed pipeline will destroy Russia's income, Russia will Syria as the proxy battleground to stop Qatar's pipeline.

USA is a rabid dog crazed by communism and Russia.  The Americans will do anything to destroy and punish Russia.  President Obama and Hillary Clinton started the war in Syria with its allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others.  There were no Iranian troops in Syria at that time, but Iran soon came to the defense of Assad and Syria.  Syria is a US proxy battleground used against Russia.  The US hopes that Assad will be defeated so that the subsequent puppet government will approve the pipeline, destroying Russia's economy.  In addition, the US hopes Russia's involvement will suffer in Syria another Afghanistan millstone, equivalent to USA's Viet Nam.  The US seems to think the more messy and complex Syria becomes, swirling around Russia inside Syria, the better.  That's why the USA is funding many of the 100 different sides within Syria (eg. CIA funds one group, Pentagon funds another group, and these two "moderate" jihadists groups fight against each other).

President Assad just wants to survive by removing the 100 different terrorist groups within their border who threaten Assad and his people.  For the majority of Syrians, they liked moderate Assad, and were happy with their lives in Syria before this war started.  For example, the large Christian population in Syria has been defended and protected for decades by Assad's government. When the Muslim jihadists (funded by USA et al) invaded Syria, the Christians were persecuted and attacked by these Islamic jihadists. Many Christians fled to Aleppo Syria, where the jihadists eventually caught up to them, slaughtering most of these Christians.  Many of the Syrian Muslims have fled for Europe, dramatically destabilizing almost all European countries, just as the Devil would want.    With Russia's help, Assad has almost defeated all of these foreign Islamic jihadi groups, and recently doing mopping up operations to cement its victory.  With US and Sunni plans to overthrow Assad in tatters, they had to up the ante, so USA/UK got the White Helmets (Syrias pseudo Civil Defence unit, started by UK's MI6 spy group, and funded by USA and UK on ongoing basis) to stake a false flag phoney chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians.

What a mess!
 
President Trump was against Syrian war even before he was President.  Since then, it seems the US Deep State has turned Trump, getting him to attack Syria for the US false flag chemical weapon attack as an excuse, and risking the possible start of WW3.  One plausable explanation is as follows:

See Dr. Robert Mawire's video where he explains what comes next in Syria (ie. World War 3, nuclear), and why Trump and Putin will push the nuclear launch buttons:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ3ewfUI-Lg&t=604s

Also see Revelation 9:13-18

" And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,  saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths"

These 4 angels at Euphrates River were fallen angels that were bound by Noah because they were killing human men and stealing their women at that time, around 2350 BC; all as described in the Book of Enoch.

“…Bind them [fallen angels] fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated.” Enoch 10:12

Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4 seem to support Enoch's claims.  From 2350 BC to 2018 AD is a total of 4,368 years, so 70 generations in Enoch 10:12 would be 62.4 years per generation.  This is a generic calculation, as we don't exactly know when the Euphrates Fallen Angels were chained.  Back calculation while assuming the Biblical standard of 70 years per generation, we get 2882 BC for the chaining.  Noah was born around 2948 BC, so this would have been when Noah was 66 years old.  The Flood occurred around 2348 BC, when Noah was around 600 years old.

Dr. Mawire says these 4 Fallen Angels have now been released by God.  I don't understand why or how that is true, because it seems that this release of Fallen Angels at Euphrates River as described in the Book of Revelation should be occurring much later in the End Times sequence, not now at the beginning of the End Times (ie. off by 3.5 to 7 years).. 

Dr. Mawire says Trump has been (or will soon be) possessed by one of these Fallen Angels, causing Trump to turn 180 degrees from his previous position.  Is this what has caused Trump to attack Syria, opposite of what Trump has said for a long time?  How else do we explain Trump's sudden reversal, especially when it will lead us to WW3 shortly?

Perhaps Dr. Mawire meant other Fallen Angels (like those at the Euphrates) will possess Trump, Putin, and other world leaders, causing them to go to nuclear war.

Julie Whedbee's most recent vision seems to support and confirm Dr. Mawire's most recent video.

Russia is now installing S300's in Syria, Israel has sworn to destroy them before they are operational.  Israel will soon attack the Syrian S300's, Russia will defend them, USA/Israel will counter-defend by bombing Old City of Damascus Syria.  Soon after, Russia & China & Iran & ? will launch all out nuclear war against USA and all NATO countries, USA will respond likewise; killing 2.5 Billion people in the process.

Read. Understand about Jesus. Pray.  Confess your sins.  Ask for forgiveness.  Ask Jesus to be your Saviour, and the Holy Spirit to come into your heart and soul.  Turn from sin.  Turn towards Jesus and His Commandments.  Follow the teachings of Jesus.

Do all this, and you will be rewarded with everlasting life.

If you skip any of these steps, God will eventually judge you for your sins (in spite of you being kind to puppies and being a "nice person"), and you will spend all of eternity continually suffering in the Lake of Fire.  The default choice (if you refuse to choose) is Hell.

God prefers you choose Heaven, rather than the Hell.  However, God gave you a brain and the right of free will, and He will respect your decision to go to Hell because you have no interest in God or Heaven.

There isn't much time left.  Perhaps you can run and hide from nuclear war, but nobody can hide from God and his End Times.

Choose wisely.  Choose soon.


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The Greatest Sin: War or Abortion?

I hate war.  I'm not sure I can be convinced there is something called "Justified War".

In my youth, I heard others say, "It is every woman's right to choose."  Being in favor of freedom and rights, and too young and too shallow to think clearly and deeply about abortion, this seemed reasonable to me.  Today, I think differently.

The Bible tells us "Thou shalt not kill".  Seems plain and simple enough to understand.

Let's examine these complex, emotional, and gut wrenching issues.

War

 We have had war with us for a very long time.It seem surprising that the recent death toll is below the historical norm.  Perhaps that means we are overdue for the Big One.

Battles, and the resulting military and civilian death rates, from Year 1400 to 2000.  Just wait till Nuclear War and Battle of Armageddon get added to this graph!

From the 1776 US Revolutionary War till the 2014, it is estimated that 1,319,943 Americans died from war.

Since WWII, it is estimated that US government has killed 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations”.  We have no idea how many millions have been killed by all US wars, but I'm sure it's way more that 20 million.

I feel the US government is a blood thirty war monger that kills way too many people, and destroys nation after nation. To me, the US warmongering seems equivalent to the Imperial Roman army, Genghis Khan, and Alexander The Great.

In addition, the CIA and many other secret organizations inside and outside of the US government have done their unholy share of killing, assassinations, coups, explosions, and other mayhem.

Were any of these US wars and covert ops truly justified? 

Humanism

Humanism is a broad worldview which describes a number of shades of opinion, but the core set of beliefs and values can be summarized as follows.
A humanist…

• trusts to the scientific method when it comes to understanding how the universe works and rejects the idea of the supernatural (and is therefore an atheist or agnostic)
• makes their ethical decisions based on reason, empathy, and a concern for human beings and other sentient animals
• believes that, in the absence of an afterlife and any discernible purpose to the universe, human beings can act to give their own lives meaning by seeking happiness in this life and helping others to do the same.

I have heard of Humanism before, but never gave it much thought, and was unsure of the definition.  I now know that Humanists must be an Athiest ( lacks belief in a God or gods) or Agnostic (unable to be 100% certain if there is a God or gods).

Since I am a True Christian (recently upgraded from a Nominal Christian), I can no longer be a Humanist.  Has the Devil been involved in twisting and complicating our world through a misguided humanist agenda?  Some believe that Satan founded, and is the current leader of the Secular Humanist movement.

One Humanistic viewpoint on abortion is available here (MS Word document).  All it says is we need to think about a broad range of issues before we decide; all issues except God and God's Moral Laws.

One issue the Humanists rightly raise is exactly when does life begin in a fetus?  Humanists must rely upon logic and science to determine these types of issues, and avoid any religious teachings.

Starting Point of Human Life

Neither sperm nor egg can reproduce a human by themselves.  Therefore neither of these cells are human; they are just cells, no better, no worse than somebody's fingernail, hair, or skin cells.  Therefore none of these can rightfully receive the protection and rights which are reserved for a human.

In 1 John 1:5, the Bible tells us that God is light:

"This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

In 2011, scientists discovered that at the instant that a frog egg is fertilized, there is a burst of light emitted.  In 2014, scientists duplicated the frog egg experiment with human eggs and sperm, and saw a similar flash of light.  The greater the flash, the stronger and more alive is the egg.  If there's no flash, then the egg failed to be fertilized, and is therefore dead and sterile. 





I suggest that the flash of light at fertilization is when life begins.

Sperm have the unique DNA genetic codes of the man.  The woman's egg contains her unique DNA.  Immediately after the flash, there is an exchange of DNA between the egg and sperm.  The DNA of the egg and sperm combine to produce a new, unique set of DNA; different from every other human on the planet.

After the DNA exchange, the fertilized egg will begin cell division within a few hours.  It will grow into a new, unique human with unique DNA, different from both mother and father.

Here is a 9.5 minute TED talk video "Conception to Birth - Visualized" by Dr. Alexander Tsiaras in Dec. 2010.

Picking any other point in time (from after the flash, up to full term birth) for when life begins has significant moral dilemmas attached (eg. akin to euthanasia, murder of sleeping or unconscious people, murder of elderly or sick or disabled persons, etc.).  The flash is life.

If life doesn't begin at conception, then I challenge you to pick the mm:ss timestamp in the video above as when it's OK to abort, and when it is no longer OK to abort because it is thereafter a human with the same rights to life that you currently enjoy (post your time mm:ss recommendation below in the Comments section, and explain exactly why and how you chose that particular moment).

Now that we know when life begins, let's talk about abortion.

Abortion

In 2012, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th Dist., New Jersey) said that since 1973, when the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, there's been "well over" 54 million abortions. This was based on data from The Guttmacher Institute.

In the video above, it is estimated that 3,000 abortions are performed each day in the USA, so that's  1.095 million US abortions every year.  Therefore, since 2012, that's an additional 6.7 million, for a grand total of  60.7 million abortions.

Therefore there are 46 times more abortion casualties in the last 23 years than 238 years of war.

If you add the US troops killed (1.3 million) plus their victims (20 million enemy troops and civilians since WWII), US abortions are likely still significantly greater than war deaths; even for the greatest war mongering nation in the last 1,500 year.

For peace loving countries, abortion is likely their biggest killing field.

If we do the comparison based on dead per year, abortion is 2.64 million per year on average over a 23 year period, while war is 5,545 dead per year over a 238 years average, so abortions are 476 times deadlier than war (based on number killed per year).

Apparently, I have been focused on small potatoes.  Abortions, I now see, is 476 times more important focal point for our attention.

If abortion in the US is worse than the rabid dog, blood curdling war mongering of the USA, then all other countries that have abortion but are more peaceful, abortion is even a greater target for changing for the better.

Canada gets along with most everybody.  We generally don't start wars.  How's Canada's abortion statistics?

 

Canada's Abortion Stats

 Based on statistics from University of Ottawa, 40% of all pregnancies in Canada are unplanned.  Of these, about half are carried to term; the other half are terminated.  There are 330,000 live births and 100,000 abortions each year in Canada. In 2003, 103,768 abortions were recorded in Canada, about 15.2 per thousand women. The number appears to be declining by about 1% per year.  A wide range of Canadian women undergo abortions.  About 50% are under 25; 64% are single, and 45% have children.

Since the US is approximately 10 times bigger than Canada, Canada and US have similar number of abortions per female per year.  When you look at the childbearing years incidence rate, US is 32.9% higher abortion rate than Canada (20.2/15.2*100%= 32.9%).

In Canada, there is no longer any law against abortion, nor when an abortion can be performed.  This can lead to some grisly situations were a healthy baby that could easily survive if allowed to be birthed, is instead aborted by highly questionable methods.

  

Abortions Around the World

 Abortion rates vary from a high of 53.7 per thousand women aged 15-44 in Russia, through 38 per thousand in China,  35 (Viet Nam and Kazakhstan);  33 (Estonia);  32 (Belarus);  27 (Ukraine);  20.2 (USA);  19.7 (Australia and New Zealand);  16.9 (France);  15.2 (Canada);  10.6 (Italy);  10.4 (Netherlands);  to 0.2 (Portugal). Reassuringly, no abortions were reported from the Vatican City. 

 

God's Viewpoint on Abortion

In the Bible Jeremiah 1:4-5, Jeremiah says:

"Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.' "

Here, we learn that God knew Jeremiah, even before his conception.  God sanctified Jeremiah (ie. made him holy) prior to his birth.

Perhaps God knows all the rest of God's children in a similar way to Jeremiah.

After the Flood, when there were only 8 people left on the Earth, in Genesis 1:28, it is written:

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

This is a very specific commandment by God to be fruitful and multiply.  When God is specific, you had better do it, or could face immediate punishment.

Failing to be fruitful (whether by failing to marry, homosexual relationships, abstinence, or direct birth control methods) frustrates God's commandment of "be fruitful and multiply". 

Let's take another Biblical example.

When a husband dies, his widow is stranded if she has no children to help her. In ancient times, to ensure maximum fertility rates, a Levirate marriage (Hebrew: yibbum) is mandated by Deuteronomy 25:5-6, which obliges the oldest surviving brother of a man who dies childless to marry the widow of his childless deceased brother, with the firstborn child being treated as that of the deceased brother.

Levirate marriages shows you how serious God is about "be fruitful and multiply"

In Genesis 38:8-10, the Bible tells us about Onan, whose greed caused him not to follow God's Levirate marriage law.  Onan wanted his brother's widow would die childless, so Onan would then inherit his dead brother's property.  How did that work out for Onan?

And Judah [Onan's Father] said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.  And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.  And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him [Onan] also.

 Onan frustrated God's commandment of Levirate marriage, so God ended Onan's life as punishment, and likely as a message and example to all others.

God doesn't change.  God's rules don't change.  If this is how God felt in Onan's biblical time, He likely still feels the same now.

In another Biblical example,  Genesis 4:8-10 tells us how God hears Able's blood calling to God from the Earth:

 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”  While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.  Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

Blood from just one murdered person cries out to God for justice.  What then, of the blood from 60.7 million babies?

During End Times, the Bible tells us in Revelation 6:9-11 that Christians will be persecuted by the Anti-Christ, and eventually Satan tries to kill all who refuse his Mark of the Beast.  These persecuted souls also cry out to God:

"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:   And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?  And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."

 I therefore conclude that God hears the voice of all aborted fetuses and babies who cry for justice.

Since God is just, there will eventually be justice for these aborted babies.  Just because there is a fleeting moment between the crime and the punishment does not mean the sinner has escaped without punishment.

I therefore conclude:

Thou shalt not kill (babies and fetuses included).

 

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Open Letter To Our Friends in Russia

For 70 years or so, USSR then Russia have suffered under the baiting, threats, tricks, and tormenting by the West.

For at least 20 years, Vladimir Putin has been attacked, disrespected, teased, and tormented by the West.

Neither Russia nor Putin are innocent angels, but fortunately both have had the control and patience of Job.

We will soon be at the End Times event when their further patience fails.  Putin and others must then act against the West.

Billions of people will die shortly thereafter.

Does this mean that these are inhuman monsters who will burn in Hell for their actions?

I don't know.  Only God knows.  All of us have a role to play in End Times.  If through our free will, we refused to play our likely role, the situation will continue to spin out of control until we (or someone else) steps up to the plate and does what is necessary.  Either way, God's plan is accomplished.

For example, if it wasn't Russia, maybe it would be China.

This nuclear vaporization of 2.5 Billion people is obviously bad for humans continuing to habitate on Earth.  If all was perfect on Earth, we would never want to go to Heaven.  God is loving and good, and so is God's plan. God knows this is a necessary step to get us purified and refined in preparations for Heaven.

Around 587 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia was raised up by God to attack Jerusalem.  God knew that King Nebuchadnezzar would be victorious, and this King would take Jewish hostages for 70 years; exactly as prophesied in Ezra 5:12, Esther 2:5-6,  2 Kings 25, and 2 Chronicles 36 and described in Daniel 1.  King Nebuchadnezzar wasn't victorious because God liked him more than the Jews.  The Bible tells us that King Nebuchadnezzar won because the Jews needed to be punished for their chronic, never ending out of control sins.

The Bible tells us that in End Times, Mystery Babylon will be corrupt and full of sin.  The Whore of Babylon has fornicated with the rest of the world, leading everybody else to join Mystery Babylon in its outrageous sin.

Many people believe that the USA is Mystery Babylon and the Whore, as it matches all or most of the Biblical descriptions.  I share that belief.

In 2018, Russia and its allies will likely be God's instrument to punish Mystery Babylon and the Whore in accordance with Revelation 17-18.

Time will tell


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Damascus= Ruinous Heap

Israel has now set the stage for Damascus to become a "ruinous heap" as described in the Bible's Isaiah 17:1.

Israel has warned Syria that if an attack comes against Israel from Syria's territory, it will be Syria who will receive the Israeli retaliation, not the sponsoring, puppet-masters (Iran or otherwise).

That avoids the "little green men" problem in Ukraine-Crimeria (ie. Russian speaking troops with no insignia nor obvious governmental authority, who invaded Crimea, fought against the Ukrainian government forces, and caused or aided Crimea succeeding from Ukraine and re-joining Russia).

Today in Syria, there are over 1,000 different armed groups who are fighting in some form or another (see here and here).

If Israel (or any other country) is attacked by somebody from within Syria, it could take years to figure out the truth of exactly who did the attack, which commanding officer ordered the attack, the proxy war puppet-master behind those attacking forces, the funding sources, the suppliers of the weapons, the co-conspirators, those who could have vetoed or prevented the attack but sat on their hands and did nothing, the enablers, the cheerleaders, the sympathizers, and so on.  Likely, it would be impossible to ever know for sure.

Syria's President Assad has claimed he is in charge within Syria, and the only legitimate government for all of Syria.  If Assad has encouraged, acquiesced, or failed to take action against terrorists, allied forces, or others who are using Syria as a base of operations, who should be held responsible for this dangerous situation?

By holding President Assad responsible (and indirectly Assad's supporter, Russia) for everything that occurs within Syria's territory, Israel avoids all of the impossible messiness of retaliating against the multitude of ghost armies inside Syria who might attack Israel or other countries.

If Iran, USA, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, ISIS, Pakistan, and others who control or influence the actions of armed forces operating within Syria, and they are truly friends of Assad and/or the Syrian people, they might want to clarify their orders, rules of engagement, and acceptable targets, weapons, timing, degree, and methods for anything that is direct or indirect against any other country, including Israel.

Are we now minutes or hours away from nuclear war, the first time since 1945?


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UN Peace Conference: End Times Prophesy?

Mahmoud Abbas, Leader of the National Palestinian Authority, demanded a UN Peace Conference in mid-2018.

Is this the Beginning of the End, planting the seed that creates the New World Order covenant that will be used by the Anti-Christ during End Times?

Abbas' speech to the UN Security Council on Feb. 20, 2018 demanded a UN peace agreement for Palestine, Israel, and all other stakeholders.  Here is a 2 minute video of his 2 hr. UN speech with the key demand.  Abbas wants the resulting peace agreement to be based on the Oslo agreement, 1967 borders, a 2-state solution, and East Jerusalem under PA control but open for all three religions (Jews, Christians, and Muslims).  For those who have no personal life and nothing better to do, or an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, here is the full text of Abbas' 2 hr. speech to the UN.




Dr. Robert Mawire recently prophesied about a Middle East Peace Agreement, and nuclear war that followed together with it.  Is this UN Peace Conference the source of the peace agreement that Dr. Mawire warned about?

Only time will tell for sure.

In Mark 13:28-30, Matthew 24:32-35, and Luke 21:29-33 Jesus told us that we will know End Times will soon occur when the fig tree puts out new shoots just before summer begins.  Summer begins on the Summer Solstice, occurring on June 21st each year.  This corresponds with Abbas' mid-2018 peace conference date proposed.

I assume that Abbas would already have a pre-agreed deal by all major UN powers prior to proposing this solution.  The UN has repeatedly made resolutions in favor of the Palestinians and against Israel, so the UN will likely follow Abbas' request.  For the most part, only USA has stood side by side with Israel. Therefore I suspect the UN will readily accept Abbas' proposal, and a motion will be made in support of Abbas' proposal.  The US could vote against the resolution to enact Abbas' proposal, vetoing it; however, they might let it go ahead under some undefined chain of logic.

Israel has insisted for decades that they will only negotiate under US involvement, as all others are clearly biased against Israel.  Perhaps in this case, all the world (except Israel and the US) will participate and sanction the peace conference results.  Israel may find the resulting "peace agreement" jammed down its throat by the rest of the world.

This "peace process" may embolden Russia, and piss off US and Israel enough that all three are prompted to a re-match, a vindictive grudge match in a different forum; perhaps nuclear.

Israel's "Day for Disasters" is the 9th of Av on the Hebrew calendar, falling on July 21 in 2018; just a few weeks after the "peace conference".  This could be the day when a Psalm 38 conspiratorial attack against Israel (see our Blog Posting "Israel Watch") reaches a life threatening climax for Israel on this day, and they feel forced to run to the nuclear option to save themselves.

Is it time to plan a "Stay-cation" rather than a summer vacation for 2018?


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Loyalty to Jesus & Christian Persecution: Different Sides to the same Coin?

Persecution of Christians is not limited to Communist and Muslim countries, or tyrannical dictatorships.  It is happening everywhere, from Jesus Christ's lifetime to even today.  Is this sad state of affairs prophesied by Jesus?

Luke 14:25-27

And there went great multitudes with Him [Jesus], and He [Jesus] turned and said unto them, “If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.  And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple."

For centuries, Christians have puzzled over and been affronted by this shocking statement by Jesus.  Non-Christians who look for an easy target have used this and similar statements against Christ and Christians, rather than trying to understand the true meaning and purpose of Jesus Christ in saying this.  The puzzlement and misunderstanding continues to today (see here, here, and here).

Are we sure we understand what Jesus was trying to say?  The sentence contains a double negative.  Double negatives can be confusing, that's why double negatives are frowned upon as bad English grammar.  Perhaps Jesus meant that we must love all of our family members if we are to become a discipline of Christ?

The Greek word used here is "miseo".  Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Word 3404 provides other possible translations for the Greek word as "...to love less..."  Is this what Jesus meant?

Poor Biblical Translation?

Did Christ actually say what is recorded in Luke 14:25-27?  

I used to think the Bible may have been in error.  Today, I know better.  Today, I know that the original Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek are 100% true and correct, inspired and protected by God down through the centuries.  However, the various translations are not protected by God, so could this be a poor translation?

As good as the King James Version is, I know of some confusing passages, where a poorly placed comma totally changes the sense, and corrupts Christian dogma when that comma was added by biblical editors trying to "improve" the Bible.

For example, see Luke 23:43 which says:

 "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

In many places elsewhere in the Bible, we are clearly told that Jesus wasn't going to be in Heaven until 3 days and 3 nights after his crucifixion, so how could both the thief and Jesus go immediately to Heaven on the same day He is crucified (ie. "Today")?  There were no commas nor capitalization in the original Biblical manuscripts in Greek; all punctuation was added at the point of translation into English.  Therefore I believe (as taught me by Biblical scholars) this passage should correctly read as follows:

And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise."

Could this mandatory "hatred" (or less love than what is offered to Jesus) toward our family be merely a bad translation, bad English grammar, misunderstanding of the Greek, or poorly placed punctuation?  All that could be possible. However, this passage in Luke is remarkably similar to Matthew 10:34–37 where Jesus said:

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."

Therefore it does not appear to be a 1-off fluke nor mis-translation of Jesus.  Jesus obviously wants us to have clear "Chain of Command" and loyalities; God first, families second.

However, I'd like to propose an additional explanation.

Persecution of Christians

Could Jesus be referring to the wholesale persecution that will befall upon the Disciples of Jesus?  When the State realizes that the Disciples care not about persecution of themselves, the State could start persecuting the family members of the Disciples so as to try forcing a Disciple to leave his faith behind.

Sad Case of Tommy Robinson

Below is an interview of Tommy Robinson of England.  Tommy was a plumber who woke up when he learned of Rochdale Child Sex Abuse Ring (ie. a secret Muslim gang of men in England that were profiling and recruiting more than 1,000 young English girls, as young as 11 years old, for brutal rape, kidnapping by these Muslim men during multiple years), and other problems caused or contributed by Muslim immigration into the UK.  The government knew or suspected the Rochdale Sex Ring crimes were ongoing, but did little to nothing to stop it; mainly because the government was afraid of the backlash against the British Muslim community.  Tommy Robinson however, wasn't willing to be silent.  He became involved in a big way.

I don't endorse what Tommy Robinson and others did, but I bring to your attention what Tommy Robinson reports in this interview that the UK government did to him and all his family members surrounding him (ie. Tommy, his pregnant wife, Tommy's parents, Tommy's brother-in-law, Tommy's cousins, Tommy's friends, etc) so as to coerce Tommy from his political activism.  I have no way of knowing if any or all of Tommy's allegations against the UK government's coercion against Tommy are true.  However, if these allegations are even somewhat true, and Tommy's story becomes well known, who would be willing to follow in Tommy's footsteps and subject all of their family members with government persecution?

I would suggest that only if someone hated their family and friends would they subject themselves and persecution by the unlimited powers of a misguided, unjust State.

When Brittany Pettibone, a US citizen who is an independent YouTube reporter, tried to enter the UK for doing an interview of Tommy Robinson, she was banned from entry to UK, was imprisoned for 3 days, and then evicted from UK. Tommy Robinson subsequently met Brittany in Vienna to do this interview.

Are you fully prepared to give up everything for Jesus Christ?  As strong willed as Tommy Robinson is, he eventually caved in to persecution of him and his family by the UK government.  Will the Devil even better at persecution of Christians than the UK government was towards Tommy?

Jesus says He will be there in our moment of truth, but no doubt there will be much refining and dross that we will have to lose in this refining and purifying process to prepare us all for Heaven. 

Watch the video, and decide where, if it had been you instead of Tommy, and the persecution was about your faith in Jesus, you would have caved in, submitted, and taken the Mark of the Beast.