Think on this: “The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk, but of power.”… “Just as you were at one time disobedient to God and have now received mercy, as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedience, so that they too may now receive mercy, as a result of God’s mercy to you.” (I Corinthians 4:20; Romans 11:30)
Pray on this: Heavenly Father, we are eternally grateful for the mercy you have shown us in granting us faith in Jesus our Messiah. Grant us grace to show that same mercy to our Jewish elder brothers, especially in view of the growing anti-Semitism world wide. In Jesus name, AMEN!
Jim,
Easter is based on the Babylonian sun god worship system with an egg laying rabbit sign of fertility. Please refer to our Lords death, burial and resurrection as Passover… OK? Lets get it right for all believers. I am blessed by the Spot Report until His return!
March 25, 2013
Dear Pastors:
Good “Monday evening” from the OKC Heart Hospital where I am being treated for heart problems. The Lord be praised, today they have taken over 3 liters of water off my lungs. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I felt like I was drowning. I am not the least afraid of dying but I’m not interested in dying by drowning.
On Ynet comes the story of Obama taking off his gloves in that speech in Jerusalem and in front of a captive and adoring audience. He called on young Israelis to wake up, stop being indifferent and take their future into their own hands. His call was perfectly packaged.
In thousands of beautiful words that evoked a ‘sense of security and calm’ in every Israeli. Why? Because they were spoken by the US President.
But, brethren, you and I best not ignore the truth! Barack Hussein Obama encouraged the Israeli public to rebel; to rebel against the concept that has existed there for over 20 years; rebel against the narrative of PM Netanyahu and our friend, Boogie.
BHO expresses fondness of Bibi, and yet he doesn’t believe the Israeli leader. He does not believe his statements and does not trust his intentions.
This is why Obama bypassed Netanyahu in his speech and spoke directly to the Israeli people, right over the prime minister’s head. This is who I am, Obama said, this is what I believe: I will protect and help you, but I will not cut you any slack with regard to the Palestinian issue. You, the Israelis, already have a state, and they, the Palestinians, are being smothered under the occupation. I am familiar with the excuse, Obama said between the lines. I’ve heard it all and I can recite the list of all the threats, disappointments and frustrations that have been accumulated over the years. But excuses are not a plan. A Palestinian state, on the other hand, is, so get moving.
Obama took advantage of his second day in Israel to put on the agenda the issue that really matters to him and that he will not back down from in his second term: the establishment of a Palestinian state. To clarify just how determined he is, Obama had to come here equipped with his full arsenal.
Obama’s advisers did their homework and prepared an “Israeli” speech which mentioned Begin, Rabin, Grossman, Holocaust, Eretz Nehederet, and by the time he had gotten to the “Paletinian issue”, all Israelis [except the ones old JAV knows] were in love with him. Previously, he had been a ‘hater’, now he is a ‘lover’.
From my friend, Helen Friedman, at “Americans For a Safe Israel”
Bibi’s Apology to Erdogan: Back-Stabbing by Bibi & Obama
By: Helen Freedman
Cited as a great diplomatic victory for President Obama, as he returns from his trip to Israel, Ramallah and Jordan, is the apology that PM Netanyahu proffered to PM Erdogan of Turkey for the May 31, 2010 killing of nine Turkish terrorists on the Mavi Marmara. The ship was part of a Gaza-bound flotilla attempting to break the naval blockade on Gaza. [The Israeli Navy Seal Colonel who commanded this operation is a personal friend of ole JAV!]
Linked to the apology is an agreement to compensate the families of those who were killed, and to cancel the legal proceedings against IDF officials who were deemed culpable in the situation. Immediately after the apology, Erdogan announced his intentions to visit Hamas’s PM in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. How Israel can have diplomatic relations with Turkey, while Erdogan is courting recognized terrorists, is hard to understand.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy coming out of this apology to Turkey was expressed by MK Yoni Chetboun of the Balyit Yehudi party. While recognizing the importance of Turkey in the region, MK Chetboun, a Major in the reserves, who served as an officer in the Golani Brigade’s elite Egoz reconnaissance unit, was clear in his recognition that the apology was a “knife in soldiers’ backs.”Chetboun said, “Israel does not have the privilege to apologize for its soldiers actions, when they acted in accordance with the principles of the IDF’s ethical code and its definition of “the purity of arms.’ The apology amounts to a knife-stab in the back of the IDF’s combat soldiers and commanders. it sends a grave message to our soldiers, ‘ we don’t have your backs.’ As a soldier and commander in all sectors of warfare I can testify that the government backing is critical for the soldier at the front.” MK Chetboun continued, “It constitutes a dangerous precedent that will encourage anti-Zionist organizations to continue operating the mechanism of delegitimizing Israel in general and the IDF in particular.”
Proof that this dhimmi posture of Israel’s will only lead to more demands of humiliation and degradation is the latest reports regarding new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s vision of breaking the impasse between the PA and Israel. It would involve Israel releasing terrorists and transferring land in Area B, under joint Israeli/PA control, to Area A, which is totally Arab controlled. In addition, Obama and Netanyahu might have agreed on a “silent construction freeze,” one that is unannounced but is the reality.
AFSI joins Prof. Steve Plaut in his denunciation of the Netanyahu APOLOGY. Read this and weep:
An open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdo an Prime Minister of Turkey
Dear Mister Prime Minister:
On behalf of all of the people of Israel, I would like to apologize to you for the cowardice and fathomless idiocy of the Prime Minister of Israel. As you know, this weekend Benjamin Netanyahu sent you an “apology” for Israel having defended itself against the genocidal terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers armed only with paint-guns when they boarded the terrorist “flotilla” ship that you sent out to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas enclave in Gaza. Netanyahu spoke only for himself when he apologized to you for Israel’s defending itself and its people, this two generations after the Holocaust. He does not represent anyone at all in the country when it comes to this “apology.” No one else in the country, except for some anti-Israel radical leftists with tenure at the universities, agrees that Israel owes you an apology for defending its people.
Actually, on behalf of all REAL Israelis, I would like to apologize to you for the fact that ONLY nine terrorists were killed by Israeli troops on the flotilla ship when Israeli soldiers were savagely attacked by Turkish and other terrorists. I would like to apologize for the fact that Israeli did NOT torpedo and sink the terrorist ships trying to break the blockade and bring in aid to the Hamas Nazis. I would like to apologize for the fact that Israel has a Prime Minister who is so clueless, insensitive, and divorced from Jewish history that he would consider buying a few moments of diplomat calm with a Moslem aggressor by shaming his entire country with an “apology” to Turkey, exhibiting one of the most disgraceful acts by a Jew in all of history, and all this just hours before the Jewish holiday of national liberation, Passover.
Beyond that, I really do think that Israel owes an apology for NOT having done much more to draw the world’s attention to the illegal occupation and destruction by Turkey of the jewel of Cyprus, the city of Famagusta. Israel sat by while Turkey conquered 40% of Cyprus and transferred tens of thousands of its own people as illegal settlers to the island. And for that I apologize. And since you have spent so much time in recent years denouncing Israel as an occupier, I think Israel owes an apology to the world for not helping to end the illegal Turkish occupation of the great ancient Greek capital of Constantinople, now under an illegal Saracen occupation that has continued for far too long. It is high time that Constantinople be returned to its true heritage and its legal owners, the Greek people. It is less than a hundred years since the city, along with Smyrna and other Greek homelands, was almost liberated by the Greeks, who were only to be blocked by the Turkish military aggressors, the mass murderers of the Armenians.
So Mister Prime Minister, as you see, I am afraid that Israelis DO owe the world quite a few apologies.
On behalf of the non-pusillanimous citizens of Israel, I remain most sincerely yours,
Prof. Steven Plaut
Brethren, the above articles give us plenty of reasons, even from a hospital, to be in prayer for the PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
I am somewhat in agreement the Gary, probably because the Church by and large has ignored the appointed Spring Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23. Having been blessing by new understanding of these, I am happy to observe and understand Passover (Jesus crucifixion and death), Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits (Resurrection Day) instead of Good Friday and Easter Sunday I was brought up with. Thanks Jim for watching on the wall faithfully, week after week.
It comes as no surprise that nothing much was accomplished by the PRESIDENT’S trip to ISRAEL. I can’t see any support that ISRAEL will receive from the OBAMA administration. Personally, I wouldn’t trust OBAMA as far as I could throw him! Happy EASTER, and a joyous PASSOVER. GOD BLESS.
God be praised! He is the source of our power. Mere words without Him in the midst are just that – mere words.
Just one thought that the Lord has been showing me these days. Without faith, unwavering faith in Him, casting out all doubt and fear … not much will happen. If we don’t believe He can conquer circumstances, change things, protect us, and help us we stand powerless. We have to stand steadfast in our faith that He is Lord of all and in all.
Baruch Hashem Adonai