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Israel becomes a spoil

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Israel is embarking on its largest-ever infrastructure project with the development of the huge Leviathan offshore gas field in the Mediterranean. The development of Leviathan, which is scheduled to take about three years, constitutes both the largest energy project and financial investment in Israel in the country’s history.

Developers of Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field committed last month (Feb 2017) to a $3.75 billion investment to develop the oil and gas reserves. Leviathan was first discovered in 2010 some 100 miles west of Haifa. Located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea area off the coast of Israel, the Leviathan field is estimated to contain 22 trillion cubic feet of gross recoverable natural gas resources.

Phase one – The first phase involves an initial investment of $4 billion to produce 12 billion cu meters of gas annually for domestic customers as well as, initially, Jordanian, Palestinian and Egyptian markets.

The first phase of Leviathan’s development includes the drilling of eight production wells, which are to be linked to an offshore production-and-treatment platform and, from there, by undersea pipeline to two entry points along Israel’s central coast.  Subsequently, the processed gas will be transferred to Israel Natural Gas Lines’ onshore transportation grid for export.

Phase two – A second phase to expand production to 21 billion cu m per year at a cost of $2.5 billion export to Turkey, Egypt, and southern European countries. “A pipeline to Turkey could be operational by the time commercial production begins,” predicted Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s energy, and water minister.  Talks are already underway with Turkey following the thaw in relations between the two countries after a six-year freeze. The Israeli energy minister last month met in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart, Berat Albaryrak, to discuss future gas shipments to Turkey and possibly to Europe using existing networks.

The gas would be transported via a 500-kilometer-long undersea pipeline from the Leviathan field to Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast.   An initial cost estimate of the pipeline is $2 billion. Israeli energy sources said the state-owned Eilat to Ashkelon Pipeline Co. is set to complete in March a technical planning and economic analysis of the proposed pipeline.

In addition to sales to the Egyptian domestic market, discussions have resumed on possible gas shipments from both the Leviathan and the neighboring Tamar fields to two largely idle LNG plants on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.  This plan would entail construction of a 450-km-long pipeline.

Phase three – An even more ambitious plan proposes building a 1,300-km pipeline that would transport gas from the Leviathan field and a nearby, newly discovered field off the coast of Cyprus to Cyprus itself and Greece. Then, it would link up with existing transmission lines to Italy.

A feasibility study conducted by IGI-Poseidon for the European Commission estimated the cost at $5.7 billion, but the report found that total would be substantially less than an offshore LNG plant. “Israel views gas exports to Europe as important from a strategic point of view,” said Chen Herzog, an economist.  But Herzog added that the pipeline to Greece likely would depend on the discovery of more gas at sites off the coast of Israel.

There are dangers ahead….

While Energy Minister Steinitz celebrated the decision, pointing out that the natural gas field will boost Israel’s economy, provide cleaner air, and give the country a measure of energy security in the near term. “If we continue on a responsible and steadfast path, we will also succeed in discovering more gas fields, positioning Israel as an important player in the energy market alongside our neighbors in the Middle East and Europe.”

Could it be not all players want to share?  Russia is the largest provider of natural gas to Europe. A pipeline from Israel to Greece/ Italy breaks the leverage Russia always had over a freezing Europe.

In 2007, Russia provided 38.7% of the European Union’s natural gas total imports and 24.3% of consumed natural gas. That has grown to over 40% now. As of 2009, Russian natural gas was delivered to Europe through 12 pipelines. The largest importers of Russian gas in the European Union are Germany and Italy, accounting together for almost half of the EU gas imports from Russia

Ezekiel 38 and 39 tell of a time in the near future when a consortium of Muslim Nations (including Turkey and Russia) will invade Israel….The identity of those nations includeTurkey, the Southern Russian Muslim States, Iraq, Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia,  Iran and Syria and others.

(Ezek. 38:10-13)  This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme.  You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.”

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?” ‘ (Ezek. 38:10-13)

Ezekiel 38 v 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, v 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

  • The target is the people of Israel, only once they are resettled in the land –  Post-1948
  • The motivation will be v 12 – to take a spoil and plunder dressed up perhaps as the “liberation of the Palestinians?”

That never made sense until now – and Israel never had any natural wealth like oil that would make her a target until now.

This oil and gas project competes directly with Russia and Turkey’s energy ambitions.  Completed pipelines to Turkey and Europe to carry 22 Trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas fields are a huge spoil.  A stranglehold on Europe’s Energy supply ….is a Russian bonus. It is a motivation for Russia and Turkey to join the final Muslim attempt to destroy Israel.

We do not prophecy future events since we cannot even predict the next 8 hours of our day. It never goes as planned.  We do however watch world events….and see how Gods infallible word could possibly come to pass in our time.

 

70 nations gather to defy God.

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70 nations were the families of Gen 10 after the Flood. They are the descendants of Noah and his three sons.

70 Disciples/Apostles correspond to the 70 Nations of the World.  Luke 10 v 1 after these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, where he himself would come.

After all, the 70 Elders Moses appointed also represent judges and rules over the mixed multitude Number 11 v 17 The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have they come to the tent of meeting that they may stand there with you?

These 70 Elders would eventually become the 70 that sat on the Sanhedrin in Yeshua’s day. – Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the center. Each of them held an incense burner, from which a cloud of incense rose above their heads. Ezekiel 8 v 11

That during Sukkot (Feast of Nations) 70 bulls were sacrificed on behalf of the 70 Nations if you add up all of the bullocks offered over the seven days, they total seventy.  And if we go to the table of nations in Genesis, after the dispersion of the Tower of Babel, we find that humanity was divided into seventy basic families or nations.

Now the 70 nations of the world again gather to defy the God of Israel.

On Sunday, January 15th, 2017 Foreign Ministers and other diplomats from some 70 different countries have descended on Paris, with the intent to renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.  These were led by John Kerry Secretary of State for the United States and  French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault.

The summit, which opened Sunday without leaders from either side of the conflict, is expected to urge the establishment of a Palestinian state. “We are here to reiterate strongly that the two-state solution is the only one possible,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, in his opening remarks to top envoys at the conference.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to attend, decrying the conference as biased against Israel from the outset.

Just a week and half before the Security Council vote, U.K. Prime Minster May delivered a speech overflowing with praise and support for Israel. Addressing the Conservative Friends of Israel, the prime minister hailed the Jewish state as “a remarkable country” and “a beacon of tolerance.”

Ties with Jerusalem were “crucial,” she said, promising to raise the bilateral trade relationship to new heights and describing the Balfour Declaration as “one of the most important letters in history.” Britain broke with the 70 and chose not sign the resolutions passed in Paris.

Nevertheless, international pressure on Israel to carve up the Holy Land like a Thanksgiving turkey continues to build following President Obama’s May 2011 speech calling for Israel to withdraw to the 1967 borders.

Nearly every world leader — and certainly every American president since the Six Day War — has demanded Israel give up significant amounts of territory within Judea, Samaria, and the Golan Heights in order to create a sovereign Palestinian state and make peace with Syria, but never this much territory. The Obama plan would force Israel to give it all up, to divide Jerusalem, and return to indefensible borders.

The recent United Nations Security Council resolution 2334 was a radical reversal of 30 years of US support for Israel in the U.N.  This resolution declared Jewish housing in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem to be illegal. Israel fears the outcome of the Paris conference will certainly be biased against them.

A two-state solution would call for Israel to relinquish territories conquered in the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently, create a Palestinian State. This would include establishing a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, thereby removing the Kotel (Western Wall) and the Temple Mount from Jewish control.

It is unclear whether the 800,000 Jews living over the 1949 Armistice Lines, comprising approximately 13 percent of Israel’s Jewish population, will be required to relocate.

I find it interesting that those 70 are now scheming to divide what God calls His – Joel 3:2, the Lord says: “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” 

 

Our Leader cursed our nation.

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President Obama’s refusal to veto an anti-Israel U.N. resolution was ranked as the most anti-Semitic incident of 2016 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Gen 12 v 3 – ” I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

In the annual anti-Semitism report, the centre placed the Obama administration’s decision Friday to abstain on the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements at the head of its list, the “Top 10 Worst Global Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Incidents.”

“The most stunning 2016 U.N. attack on Israel was led by President Obama when the U.S. abstained on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel for settlement construction,” the centre said. “It reversed decades-long US policy of vetoing such diplomatic moves against the Jewish State.”

Also making the list was activity by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement as well as U.S. white nationalist leader Richard Spencer’s questioning whether Jews are “people or soulless golem” at a November gathering in Washington, D.C.

As a South African, I watched B.D.S. destroy our economy as the world isolated our government. Despite half the world’s gold reserves and the strongest military on the continent, our economy was crippled, our travel limited, and culturally we were isolated. I left South Africa in protest and was unable to return to my country for more than 15 years.

Now the two countries that fought so hard for the right of minorities and who share a similar constitution (U.S.A. and S.A.) lead the charge in anti-Semitic behavior. The 2001 World Conference against Racism (WCAR), also known as Durban I, was held at the Durban International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, under UN auspices, in September 2001. Durban 2 followed in Switzerland. On the first day of the conference, Ahmadinejad, the only head of state to attend, made a speech condemning Israel as “totally racist”

He overlooked the fact that over 1 million Arabs (20% of the population) own land, live and vote in Israel, serve on their Supreme Court and in their Knesset and Cabinet, and play for their national and international sports teams.

In the past few years, scores of universities, pension funds, churches, and unions in the US, Europe, and elsewhere have supported BDS by boycotting Israeli goods and investments. The United Methodist Church’s $20 billion pension board, the biggest pension fund asset manager in the US, blacklisted the five largest Israeli banks. Norway’s $810 billion Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, blacklisted two Israeli companies over their involvement in settlement building in East Jerusalem.

The student councils of most of the University of California campuses have voted in favour of requests that the university system administrator divest from American companies making money from the settlements. The National Women’s Studies Association and other academic groups in the US have voted to boycott Israeli universities.

Two top Israeli officials have accused the Obama administration of orchestrating the resolution behind the scenes. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said Wednesday that Israel would work to repeal the resolution even though such efforts can take years.

The true nature of the UN resolution is also hinted at by numerology. Resolution 2334 has a value. In gematria 2334 – is XXXX. In the rules of gematria, a repeated letter is for emphasis, turning XXXX into an emphatic XXX, which means ‘to betray’. By abstaining, US President Barack Obama betrayed his alliance with Israel, paving the way for the conference in Paris.

“Our goal would be to repeal it,” Mr. Dermer said “You know, the ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution was sitting on the UN books for 15 or 16 years before we were able to repeal it.”

In its report, the Los Angeles-based centre said the resolution “identifies Jerusalem’s holiest sites, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, as ‘occupied Palestinian territory.’”

“It also urges U.N. members ‘to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,’ effectively endorsing BDS,” said the report.“The reason why Jews are called Jews is because we are the people of Judea,” Mr. Dermer said. “So now the Jewish people are foreign occupiers of Judea? Judea all of a sudden has become occupied Palestinian territory? So this is absurd, and it has to be fought.”

The vote came as the latest of 20 anti-Israel U.N. resolutions approved in 2016. The U.N. General Assembly approved one resolution each against the countries of Syria, Iran, North Korea and Crimea in the same year.

Netanyahu will not meet with the foreign ministers of those countries and their ambassadors will not be received at Israel’s Foreign Ministry.  The officials said that business with the embassies of those countries that supported resolution 2334 — Britain, France, New Zealand, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal — will be suspended.

When we elect a leadership that actively:

  • Promotes the widespread killing of our unborn,
  • Considers the bible a version of hate speech,
  • Undermines the marriage covenant,
  • Exalts the Muslim faith and favors it over Christianity,
  • Now undermines and curses the Jewish people.

For those that don’t believe in the God that faithfully keeps score…..Sleep well.  

For those that do believe in the God that faithfully keeps score, who is the Righteous Judge, the Defender of the unborn and His people Israel…..we know there is trouble ahead.

D.N.A. proves the bible!

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The advancements in DNA have been able to trace family relationships and prove parenthood beyond any doubt. Could this DNA research tell us if:

  • Jews were related to the Arabs and whether they shared a common family heritage?
  • Was there a Levite (Kohen) genetic marker that traced the descendants of Levi – the Priesthood.

“Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham,” says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine. “And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years,” he says.

The researchers analysed the Y chromosome, which is usually passed unchanged from father to son, of more than 1,000 men worldwide. Throughout human history, alterations have occurred in the sequence of chemical bases that make up the DNA, leaving variations that can be pinpointed with modern genetic techniques. Related populations carry the same specific variations. In this way, scientists can track descendants of large populations and determine their common ancestors.

Specific regions of the Y chromosome were analysed in 1,371 men from 29 worldwide populations, including Jews and non-Jews from the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that Jewish men shared a common set of genetic signatures with non-Jews from the Middle East, including Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. These signatures diverged significantly from non-Jewish men outside of this region. Consequently, Jews and Arabs share a common ancestor and are more closely related to one another than to non-Jews from other areas of the world. The study also revealed that despite the complex history of Jewish migration in the Diaspora (the time since 556 B.C. when Jews migrated out of Palestine), Jewish communities have generally not intermixed with non-Jewish populations. If they had, then Jewish men from different regions of the world would not share the same genetic signatures in their Y chromosome. It is possible to calculate from the divergence of the Y-chromosomes how much intermarriage there was over the last 2,000 years. The answer is a striking 0.5 percent per generation.

A similar study published in British science journal, Nature (January 2, 1997), asked that participants in Israel, England, and North America to contribute DNA material and identify whether they were Kohen or could identify their family background.

The results of the analysis of the Y chromosome markers of the Kohanim and non-Kohanim were indeed significant. According to Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman in his article “The DNA Chain of Tradition: The Discovery of the ‘Cohen Gene,’” one scientific study found that 98.5% of Cohens tested share the same genetic marker, which signifies descent from a common male ancestor. Astonishingly, Cohen progeny from both the Sephardic (Arab-Muslim world) and Ashkenazic Jewish (European) groups share the same sequence. Judging by the number of mutations that has occurred in the Cohen haplotype, scientists conclude that the Cohens descend from one man who lived approximately 3,300 years ago.(A haplotype is a group of genes within an organism that was inherited together from a single parent.)

In a second study, Dr. Skorecki and associates gathered more DNA samples and expanded their selection of Y chromosome markers. Solidifying their hypothesis of the Kohens’ common ancestor, they found that a particular array of six chromosomal markers were found in 97 of the 106 Kohens tested. This collection of markers has come to be known as the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH)–the standard genetic signature of the Jewish priestly family. The chances of these findings happening at random is greater than one in 10,000.

The finding of a common set of genetic markers in both Ashkenazi and Sefardi Kohanim worldwide clearly indicates an origin pre-dating the separate development of the two communities around 1000 C.E.

Professor Hammer was recently in Israel for the Jewish Genome Conference. He confirmed that his findings are consistent that over 80 percent of self-identified Kohanim have a common set of markers.

The findings exposed two common myths

  • The biblical assertion that the Samaritans were not proper Jews was unjustifiable and politically motivated. The Samaritan DNA shows that the lineage of this group is even more homogeneous and over a longer time than that of the Jews who returned from the Babylonian captivity. The fact that from Ezra’s time onwards Jewish teaching prohibited marriage between Jews and non-Jews – reinforced later by Christian rulers also forbidding it – contributes mightily to Jewish genetic identity.
  • The Christian Identity and  British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a doctrine based on the hypothesis that people of Western European and Northern European descent are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of the ancient Israelites. DNA proves this is a fairy tale.

Two books make for interesting reading:

Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Ernstein.

DNA and Tradition: The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman.

US support of Israel withdrawn

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Today the UN Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements. Applause broke out in the 15-member Security Council’s chambers after the vote on the measure, which passed 14 to 0, with the United States ambassador, Samantha Power, raising her hand as the lone abstention. It broke with 36 years of accepted US Policy. Israel’s ambassador, Danny Danon, denounced the measure, and castigated the council members who had approved it.

In abstaining, the U.S. brushed aside calls for a veto by president-elect Donald Trump who, in an unprecedented move, managed to delay the vote a day by weighing in with Egypt, the initial sponsor of the resolution. Egypt then withdrew its support.

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, defended the move to abstain, saying “one cannot champion” both settlements and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The settlement problem has gotten so much worse,” Power said after the vote, which had been delayed from Thursday. She added that “our vote today does not diminish” the country’s “steadfast” commitment to Israel. The decision to abstain highlighted the increasingly frayed relationship between the Obama administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Netanyahu’s office, in a statement after the vote, rejected the resolution and said the Obama administration secretly plotted to undermine Israel by not vetoing the proposal. The White House rejected the accusation.

“The Obama administration not only failed to protect Israel against this gang-up at the UN, it colluded with it behind the scenes,” Netanyahu’s office said in the statement.

Israel argues the final status of the territories should be determined in any future talks on Palestinian statehood. “President Obama and Secretary Kerry are behind this shameful move against Israel at the UN,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity. “The US administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back.” He called it “an abandonment of Israel, which breaks decades of US policy of protecting Israel at the UN”.

The measure demands Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.” It declares the establishment of settlements by Israel has “no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.” While the resolution does not call for sanctions on Israel, it amounts to a high-profile rebuke of the Israeli government and could hamper Israel’s negotiating position in future peace talks. Palestinians argue that the expansion of settlements on the disputed land makes a peace deal even less likely.

Under international law, Israeli settlements — built on Palestinian land occupied by Israel — are considered to be illegal. Some 600,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem and on the West Bank, which the Palestinians seek as part of a future independent state. Israel captured both areas in the 1967 Mideast war. Putting the West Wall – Israel’s Holiest site in Palestinian lands is unthinkable.

President-elect Donald Trump and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer had all called on the Obama administration to veto the resolution before the vote.  “Today’s vote is a blow to peace that sets a dangerous precedent for further diplomatic efforts to isolate and demonize Israel,” Paul Ryan said. “Our unified Republican government will work to reverse the damage done by this administration and rebuild our alliance with Israel.”

In a tweet following the vote, Trump said: “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.”

Palestinian Reaction

Palestinian leaders, meanwhile, welcomed the resolution’s passage. The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement issued in Arabic that the move is “a big blow for the Israeli political policy, a condemnation for settlements and consensus by the international community and a support for the two-state solution.”

Ruling party Fatah spokesman Osama Qowasma called the vote a “historic victory for the Palestinian people, and it inaugurates a new stage in the conflict.”

A time is coming when the whole world will condemn Israel and the US Veto that protected them will be withdrawn. If it had not been for the US Veto and US Arms during the 1967 and the emergency shipments during the 1973 war, there would be no Israel today.

While Donald Trump may be a temporary change – America will abandon her ally and throw Israel to her enemies. The 14-0 vote is but the beginning. Like the Nazi era where harsh anti-Semitic laws were passed on the eve of Holy Days, so this Chanukah echoes of an earlier time. 

Israel fears that the United States and France want to advance another move on the Israeli-Palestinian issue before the Obama administration wraps up its term. The international foreign ministers’ meeting is scheduled for January 15 in Paris as part of the French peace initiative, a series of decisions on the peace process will be made. These will immediately be brought to the UN Security Council for a vote and will be adopted there before January 20.

God is clear. Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, whoever curses Israel will be cursed. America, under Barack Obama’s leadership, has now, for the very first time actively cursed Israel. A red line has been crossed.

All that we can now do, is wait for the judgment that will now fall. It will fall on the United States corporately, and there is nothing that Donald Trump can do to stop it.

Blood Moons – Pattern Recognition or Prophecy?

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Notes to download: Blood Moons - Pattern or Prophecy

Sunday September 27th 2015 will be a harvest moon and a blood moon and a super moon and the last of a Lunar Tetrad. NASA says this is the first time in 30 years for a super moon and an eclipse to coincide.

In discussing the sun, moon and the stars let’s be certain we are together on the definitions of astronomy and astrology. Astronomy is the science of studying the movements and positions of planets and stars. Astrology is the worship of stars, which is cultic and pagan.

The harvest moon is also special because it will rise in the east near sunset and appear full for several days in a row — making it seem as if there is more than one full moon. A “normal” harvest moon wouldn’t necessarily appear bigger and brighter than those during the rest of the year, but this one may because it’s also a super moon.

A blood moon can appear reddish in color during a lunar eclipse (which will fall on Sunday, Sept. 27 2015). That’s because the moon reflects light from the sun. According to NASA, almost all colors except red are “filtered” out, and the eclipsed moon appears reddish or even brown. This filtering effect is one of the origins of the term “blood moon.”

The Bible could also refer to blood moons. From Joel 2:31-32 (New King James Version): “The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Sept 27th 2015 moon is final moon of what’s called a “lunar tetrad,” which began in 2014. A lunar tetrad is four total lunar eclipses in succession, with no partial lunar eclipses in between, separated by six lunar months (or six full moons).

The harvest moon, blood moon, super moon and eclipse will all be visible starting Sunday night, Sept 27th 2015.

Now what makes this particular Lunar Tetrad of blood moons interesting is that they have all fallen on the Gods Holy Days (Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23) as defined by His Calendar. The Hebrew calendar is a lunar based calendar, so starts each month on a New Moon and so the 15th of the month is traditionally a Full moon.

It is important to realize that the bible NOWHERE mentions “lunar tetrads” or ‘blood moons” as having some special prophetic meaning. Scriptures do not say that they point to any specific prophetic outcome.

At best this whole article is merely speculative pattern recognition. We cannot draw conclusions about the timing of the Rapture or the Tribulation based on a naturally occurring “sequence of eclipses” and “blood moons.”

BUT…..Four blood moons on four Feasts of the Lord within two years is very rare and has only occurred seven (7)  times since the time of Yeshua. There are now four blood moons scheduled to appear in 2014/2015 and then there will NOT be any for the next 100 years.

The events that have followed each of these seven Tetrads have been startling…..

Continued here…Blood Moons – Prophecy or Pattern?

Russia, Turkey and Palestine

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President Vladimir Putin opened Moscow’s new grand mosque on Sept 23rd – Yom Kippur . The new mosque, which can accommodate 10,000 people, is the largest in Europe. Islam is the second largest religion in Russia after Orthodox Christianity, making up around 15 percent of the population.
Putin was joined at the ceremony by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Russia’s Kremlin-backed Council of Muftis said private donations covered the construction of the mosque, including contributions from Kazakhstan and Turkey.

For Abbas the meetings extended his early Kremlin contacts with Putin. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had launched his “diplomatic intifada” against Israel with the exit from the Kerry peace initiative back in January. His meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev marked his breakaway from the US-led peace process with Israel. He then signaled his bid for Russian backing for a Palestinian state.

This gave Putin a chance to widen his influence on three very important Middle East issues. He is actively arming the Syrians and has boots on the ground in Syria while providing their government new fighter jets. He has concluded a $1.5 billion dollar purchase of Iranian oil and other trade deals before sanctions with Iran are officially lifted.

Putin accepted Chairman Abbas request for help and they jointly announced a $1 billion Gas project in Gaza section of the Mediterranean with Gazprom to produce 30 Billion cubic meters of natural gas. Russia’s Technoprom export engineering firm was also considering a small oil development project near the West Bank city of Ramallah, hub of the Palestinian Authority government headed by Abbas.

The Palestinian leader began his conversation with Putin by calling Russia a great power that deserved to play a more prominent role in the volatile Middle East region.

This move confronts Israel with two troubling concerns:
1. Russian interests could potentially encircle Israel’s offshore Mediterranean gas and oil sites and Russian pipelines may block Israel’s export facilities.
2. Under international law, the Palestinian Authority is not recognized as an Independent state and is therefore not empowered to establish Special Economic Zones in the Mediterranean as closed areas for prospecting for oil or gas.

By taking charge of the offshore exploration opposite Gaza, Russia is offering its Palestinian partner implicit Russian recognition of its status as an independent national entity authorized to sign international contracts. This will help the process of creeping Palestinian Statehood without any Israeli participation.

Russia’s desire to liberate the poor oppressed Palestinians and their support in the  UN for those motions have far less to do with poor Palestinians and much more to do with Oil and Gas.

A Middle East Spokesman put it bluntly – Russian tactics for Syria and Iran had proved effective, he said, and there was no reason why Moscow could not perform the same function on the Israeli­Palestinian track.  It was time to end the American monopoly on peace making. 

Soon all of the diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East will be in the hands of Israel’s enemies.

Israel – Czech Republic 1938.

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On the 65th anniversary of the UN resolution that created Israel by partitioning British-mandate Palestine into Israeli and Palestinian states, the UN voted 138 to 9, recognizing the State of Palestine as a “non-member observer State.” The Czech Republic was the only European country to vote against the measure. She had learned from her past and stated: “we strongly believe that solutions cannot be imposed from the outside because they do not work.”

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas launched his “diplomatic Intifada” against Israel from Moscow where he had sought Russian help. Palestinian officials have said that vote paved the way for Palestine to join 63 international institutions, conventions, and treaties.

On April 1st (Abib 1) at a PLO meeting in Ramallah, Abbas formally requested membership in 15 UN international organizations and international treaties for the “State of Palestine.” Going to the UN means the potential of going for an Independent State and access to the International Criminal Court.

The UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine, Richard Falk, accused Israel of pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and creating unbearable conditions for the minority. Falk, an ethnic Jewish expert in international law stated that Israeli policies have “unacceptable characteristics of colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.” The UN, Arab League, and others are setting up Israel like Czechoslovakia was in 1938. The goal is division and ultimate betrayal and invasion.

Just look at the similarities:

  1. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel were supposed “artificially” created by the Allied powers following WWI. (Czechoslovakia was created by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and Palestine divided by the UN after WW2).
  2. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel had large minority populations from the defeated nations (Germans and Arabs).
  3. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel were islands of liberal democracy in a sea of authoritarian regimes
  4. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel were accused of mistreating their minority groups.
  5. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel made many mistakes that cost the lives of civilians on both sides of the conflict.
  6. Both Czechoslovakia and Israel were small nations. Both had a strong military.
  7. Both countries’ very existence was being threatened by German and Arab movements that derived their power from the nationalist sentiment of their people’s (the German Reich or  Arab-Islamic League)
  8. Both Germans and Arabs wanted to reclaim the “glory” of their former defeated empires and believed that they needed to correct the “injustice” that was supposedly done to them by the establishment of Czechoslovakia and Israel, respectively.
  9. Both German and Arab regimes prevented a peaceful resolution to the (manufactured) conflicts with Czechoslovakia and Israel.
  10. Sudeten Germans refused all reconciliation proposals until Czechoslovakia was forced to capitulate to British and French demands and give the Sudetenland to Germany. Israel will find herself in that position soon.
  11. Palestinians (at the instruction of Arab leaders) refuse to recognize the Jewish State while insisting on the return of 6 million Palestinian refugees into Israel proper (an act which would in effect destroy the Jewish State).
  12. In both cases Western powers were slow to understand the dynamics of the conflict. They did not see the big picture, and they gradually acquiesced to German or Arab demands with the hope of achieving “peace for our time.”

Using the poor oppressed Palestinians as the cause – the UN and others will divide and sanction and ultimately betray Israel.  As in 1938 the great powers of Britain and the USA and Europe will side with the aggressor.

Jerusalem and Rome in 2017.

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Senior Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials announced in Geneva that they would mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Oct 31st 2017 as a shared event.  The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis, the doctrinal challenge that launched the Protestant Reformation, will be their first joint celebration.

That is only a time and times and half a times, 42 months or 3 1/2 years from now.  In Oct 1517, the year of the 95 Thesis was also a Jubilee year when Jerusalem changed hands.  She was to remain part of the Ottoman Empire for the next 400 years or 8 Jubilees until her liberation again in 1917 and again in 1967. Her next Jubilee is also 2017.

Roman Catholic, the world largest church has 1.2 billion members and make up fully one half of all Christians. Lutherans make up 75 million. David A. Barrett’s book, World Christian Encyclopedia leads us to conclude that there are 30 Roman Catholic denominations and 41 different Orthodox denominations and only 27 “Protestant” denominations and 185 “Independent” denominations. Catholics and Lutherans began seeking theological common ground since the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council which opened the Roman church to better relations with other churches. In an age of cultural pluralism, interfaith unity became acceptable and desired.

The Vatican II initiative, coupled with other major documents like the 1964 “Restoration of Unity” by Paul VI and the 1995 encyclical, “That They May Be One,” by John Paul II, outlines how Catholics would like to have one universal—Catholic—church. In the 1960s, cultural pluralism led to theological pluralism. Theological pluralism gave birth to ecumenism. Ecumenism is the promotion of religious unity among interfaith groups. To make this pluralism work, the participants had to forget the past, and they had to compromise.

In 1999 they took a major step forward by agreeing on a common view justification, the doctrine that was the core of the 16th Century dispute. The issue was the understanding of whether Christians attained eternal salvation by faith alone or also doing good works. In their joint 93 page report they agreed that each side had often ridiculed each other’s teachings in the past, sinning against the commandment against bearing false witness. The Lutheran side also confessed its shame and regret “the vicious and degrading statements that Martin Luther made against the Jews” and the persecution of Anabaptists.

With the growth of Christianity in developing countries, the secularization and the decline of the church in Western societies, many old feuds were now forgotten. The rise of Pentecostal and Charismatic moments in this century have changed the priorities of Christians, and made many of the old confessional controversies obsolete and irrelevant. The Vatican announced in 2009 that it would introduce a new church structure that would allow former Anglicans to enter into “full communion” with the Catholic Church while preserving their Anglican traditions.

Over half of the 67 Episcopal clergy who have applied for membership with the Catholic Church have been approved by the Holy See. An Episcopal church in Maryland was the first in the nation to join the Roman Catholic Church.  The members and pastor of St. Luke’s Episcopal parish in Bladensburg, Md., converted to Catholicism under a process set up by the Vatican to bring disaffected Episcopalians and Anglicans into its fold.

As society declines, the Catholic have stood by their traditional values and this will attract followers discouraged and disaffected by their compromising and secular denomination. The conclusion of the joint agreement between Lutherans and Catholics spoke of the church sharing “unity in reconciled diversity” over their issues.  The Lutheran World Federation (L.W.F) said it would hold further discussions  with other denominations to be included in those joint celebrations of the Reformation in 2017.

And while all the world see the need for Unity, the people of God squabble and bicker  among themselves.“That They May Be One,” is not just a book a Pope wrote, but the unanswered prayer of a Saviour preparing to die.  

Palestinian Vote in the U.N.

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Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations vote by Nov. 29,  2012 on whether to admit Palestine as a non-member state. Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 –on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine.

The Palestinians have more than enough votes to guarantee passage of the membership resolution, with 150 of 193 nations expected to back the proposal.

Once  legally approved, it will mean that Palestine will be formally recognized as a State under occupation. As an observer state, the Palestinian territories—the West Bank and Gaza—could participate in U.N. assembly debates, but could not vote.

The Palestinians could now agree to treaties and join specialized U.N. agencies, such as the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Criminal Court.

The Palestinians goal of the U.N. bid is to gain recognition of a Palestinian State  within the 1967 borders.

They believe this U.N.  bid will protect the two-state solution and give credence to negotiations.

America and Israel have strongly opposed this move. America has no power to veto this decision in the General Assembly. If the U.N. gambit is successful, the U.S. can freeze the  funds designated for the Palestinian Authority, which now receives more than $500 million in American assistance each year. Israeli officials say the Palestinians stand to lose $100 million a month in tax revenue if they go ahead with the Nov. 29 vote.

The risks to Israel are enormous.

The Palestinian could join the Law of the Sea Treaty and effectively end Israel’s blockade.

The Treaty also gives the Palestinians full sovereign  rights over its airspace. The Palestinians could bring claims of violation of its airspace to the International Court of Justice.

The Palestinian authority also could dispute Israel’s claim on a gas field near Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

More troubling for Israel and the U.S. would be the Palestinian territories joining the International Criminal Court.

Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said Thursday  that once the status of a Palestinian state is upgraded, the Palestinians would be able to pursue Israel for “war crimes” in the International Criminal Court.  “Once we become a recognized state, we will go to all UN agencies to force the international community to take legal action against Israel,” Zaki told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.

He said that the Palestinian Authority would consider itself free of all its commitments under the agreements signed with Israel, including economic and security obligations.

The same U.N. that acted to set up Israel in 1947 is now taking steps dismantle that decision of 65 years ago and to further divide the land.  What Israel and the U.N. do not realize is that it is Gods land.  Israel is the beneficiaries of Gods faithfulness to His friend Abraham.

When the world gathers for their  universal destruction at the valley, will they know  why?  Will they remember the majority vote of 190 nations on November 29th, 2012?

Meanwhile the world forgets while   God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.