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Europe will change this year.

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Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States does not offer Europe choices or loopholes. He simply turns the page and announces a new world order where America is first, strong, secure, prosperous and proud.  Nato is obsolete and America is no longer paying for Europe’s defense.

Europe is advised. Donald Trump means it. It will force Europe to wake up from its quiet life reorganize and come to grips with new rules, new treaties and new problems. The new presidency comes at the worst time with elections in France and Germany, Netherlands scheduled this year. The Brexit decision appears to be finalized when it passed overwhelmingly in parliament.

However, there are other long-standing problems that have resurfaced. France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called on voters across Europe to “wake up” and follow the example of US and British voters. “2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. I am certain 2017 will be the year when the people of continental Europe wake up.”

Grexit was coined long before Brexit.  European creditors need to approve the second round of Greece’s bailout. The money is critical for Athens to repay $6 billion due in July. Senior EU officials said there has not been enough progress for the finance ministers to approve a deal. The government has been sent back to the drawing board to find new spending cuts and revenue. Greece has been facing a deep economic crisis for nearly a decade now, with public debt more than tripling compared to the prior crisis figures. In January, a confidential report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is one of the main creditors for Athens, said that the country is likely to face an “explosive” surge in public debt with only significant debt relief capable of easing the situation. There is small hope that an agreement can be reached by February 20th before the next Euro group meeting. Officials in Athens are not optimistic. There is resistance against any further austerity. The calls to dump the Euro and return to the Drachma are getting louder.

Britains Prime Minister May has pledged to invoke the so-called Article 50 that kicks off the Brexit process in March. Once Article 50 is triggered, there is no turning back. So analysts expect more volatility in stocks and currencies.

Also in March, the Dutch head to the polls for elections. Prime Minister Mark Rutte is coming under pressure after his Justice minister resigned. The populace leader of the far-right Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, holds strong anti-immigrant and anti-E.U.  views. This has made him a strong candidate in the upcoming election.  His victory could put the Netherlands on a path to leave the Eurozone. Analysts, however, expect a more mainstream party to form a coalition without him…..but that is what they predicted for the American elections.

In April or May, the French also go to the polls. Given the scandal surrounding the French president, the Nationalist Front Marine Le Pen has made gains in the polls. She is hoping for a similar political shakeup in France and an end to the country’s membership of the Eurozone. This would be a fatal blow to the shared currency project. Le Pen has taken the lead in several polls but isn’t expected to win the election.

Italy isn’t slated to hold another election until 2018. But analysts have started to brace for a June ballot because the country’s court last week struck down the 2015 election law passed by the former Prime Minister Renzi.  That would add to an already unstable landscape in Italy after Renzi stepped down in December following the referendum defeat on a constitutional reform plan. Of all the major EU members,  Italy poses the most significant political risk in 2017. Italy no longer has a center-right alternative to the current governing party that makes the country more vulnerable. The populist five-star movement has gained popularity and a win for them would be feared to put Italy on the path out of the Eurozone.

The stable heavyweight of the European economy is Germany. They are headed to the polls on September 24. Analysts are speculating that Angela Merkel could hold on to the leadership despite her popularity being marred by terrorist attacks,  immigration issues, and rising inflation. Germany’s social Democrats have chosen Mark Shultz, the popular ex-president of the E.U. to stand against Merkel. He has promised to make the election exciting and focus on the hard working people.

I expect new leadership in Europe. Nationalism, trade war and U.S. isolation will not be economically beneficial to our trading partners. These conditions will mirror the 1930’s and they gave us Franco, Tito, Tojo, Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler.  It was Europe that dragged the world into war…Twice. Third time is a charm.

Merkel, the last man standing.

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Germany prepares to split with America. European politicians doubt Donald Trump will become a mature statesman.

Merkel is preparing for the worst. The New York Times called her “the last powerful defender of Europe and the trans-Atlantic alliance.” She is the last man defending a dying vision.  She stands for election a fourth time after 11 years in power.  She faces a difficult election and with 1.5 million new refugees in 2015, her popularity has been damaged by terrorism.

Each terror incident does pose electoral challenges for some of Europe’s leading pillars of unity like Merkel. Terror attacks in France and Germany do provide ammunition for right-wing leaders who want to go beyond simple bans on immigration from the Middle East. The National Front and their supporters want nothing less than a dissolution of the European Union and a return to pull-up-the-drawbridge nationalism for their individual nations.

A new rival to Merkel is Edmund Stoiber. He flatly rejects that Islam is a part of Germany. What makes him an interesting candidate is he appears to walk in the footsteps of his mentor, Franz Josef Strauss.  Stoiber called Strauss ‘the father of the people’s party’ and ‘the greatest political son of Bavaria.’” In the article, Stoiber wrote, “He was a Bavarian in the heart of Germany and European in vision. The modern people’s party was embodied in Franz Josef Strauss. … For me, he remains a teacher and fatherly friend” It was Strauss that wrote The Grand Design: a European solution to German unification. He led during Germany’s rise to power in Europe.

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel called for Salafist mosques to be banned and their communities broken up.   “On this question, I am for zero tolerance,” the German official told Der Spiegel in an interview, commenting on the links between the Christmas market truck attacker and a Salafist preacher.

Gabriel was referring to Salafist preacher Abu Walaa, who was arrested in November along with others for recruiting people in Germany on behalf of the terrorist group Islamic State. Truck attack suspect Anis Amri, who killed 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market, is believed to have communicated with the cleric.   Salafism is growing fast in Germany, flourishing on grants and other forms of support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations. Gabriel says Germany should fight radical forms of Islam on its own soil.  Gabriel leads to the Social Democrats (SPD), a coalition ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU). He is expected to run for chancellor this year against his current boss.

The cost of assimilating all those refugees and the strain on public services and welfare programs are beginning to mount up. Germans are also troubled at the cultural and religious influence of so many Muslims. Vladimir Putin is deeply troubling to Eastern Europeans.

The refugees are a burden on the country. They will move into apartments that are already in short supply in some cities. They will present a challenge to teachers because children who speak no German will enter the school system. A study by the Nuremberg-based Institute for Employment Research found that 13 percent of new arrivals in 2013 had a university degree, with almost one in four having at least a high school diploma.  Still, the largest group of newcomers, some 58 percent, has no occupational training whatsoever. If the country wants to avoid the mistakes made in the past, these people must quickly be given training. That will be one of the largest tasks in the coming years.

Europe has responded to the crisis with organised irresponsibility. Italy and Greece allow asylum-seekers to continue their journeys, despite the Dublin Regulation, which requires that refugees apply for asylum where they first enter the EU. It is a system that has allowed countries like Germany and France to ignore the true dimensions of the problem for years. As long as the refugees are headed to the Scandinavian countries in the North, they are not Germany’s present problem. The whole eurozone faces economic and financial collapse driven by ageing demographics and slow economic growth. Merkel has faced angry mobs calling her a traitor.  Right-wing parties in Denmark are seeking to clamp down on the number of people coming in, while Hungary is pushing ahead with plans to build a 13-foot-high barbed-wire fence along its border with Serbia, despite criticism from its European Union partners.

The Czech government has defended the right of the police to detain illegal migrants. Last week, its president, Milos Zeman, responded to a revolt among migrants held in a guarded facility by saying, “No one invited you here,” and, “If you don’t like it, leave.”

The Interior Ministry in Germany recorded 202 attacks on housing for asylum-seekers, including attempts to render shelters uninhabitable through arson, attacks with stones or other vandalism. A group called Courage Against the Right cites 48 attacks on individuals, based on local police records.

I wrote in an earlier article, we are entering the age of the strongmen. We will elect the same type of men, in conditions that are very similar to the 1930’s. Brexit, Trump, the swing to the right in European politics are all a logical outcome of the failed policies of globalism and failed attempts to export democracy to the Middle East.

The move to the Right will have huge consequences. The last time the world looked to the Right to solve their problems – the choices were Franco, Tito, Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. We have learned nothing from history, so we will repeat it.

Why should Xians study Torah.

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Top 10 Reasons why Christians should know Torah

Know Torah = Know Yeshua

We do new converts to Christianity a disservice when we hand them a Gospel of John and the Book of Psalms.

The book of Hebrews says in Heb 10 v 7 – Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.  Hebrews is quoting Ps 40 v7 – Then I say, “Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.” 

Which scroll was He referring to in light of there being No New Testament yet?

Yeshua made every effort to validate His ministry and His Messiahship from the Jewish Torah. His talk on the Road to Emmaus appears to be a thorough survey of the Jewish Scriptures. His uniquely Jewish mission was to fulfill Jewish roles and customs …..like Kinsman Redeemer, Passover Lamb, High Priest, Atonement, Line of Judah, Son of Joseph and Son of David are terms only explained in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Attempts to de-Judaize the bible are not new. Early Christian Fathers tried to separate themselves from their Jewish Roots and the early 12 Jewish disciples of Messiah.

  • Hilary of Poitiers (AD 291-371) wrote: “Jews are a perverse people accursed by God forever.”
  • Gregory of Nyssa (died AD 394), Bishop of Cappadocia: “the Jews are a brood of vipers, haters of goodness…”
  • Jerome (AD 347-407) describes the Jews as “… serpents, wearing the image of Judas, their psalms and prayers are the brayings of donkeys.”

Hitler’s plan was to gradually ‘Nazify’ the church beginning with a theological center he set up in 1939 called ‘The Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life’. Walter Grundmann was appointed as its academic director and wrote in 1941,  ‘The Bible must become Jew-free and the German people must see that the Jews are the mortal enemy who threatens their very existence’.

In the 1940 edition of the Nazi bible, the following words can be found: “The Evangelical Jesus can only become the savior of our German people, because it does not incarnate the ideas of Judaism, but fights against them mercilessly’.  Referring to the rewritten bible in a memorandum to the institute in Eisenach, Hitler wrote ‘The book will have to serve the fight against the immortal Jewish enemy!

When you see who does not want you to read and Study Torah…That should tell you something!  Please let that strengthen your resolve to find the Jewish Yeshua on very page of the volume written about Him. That volume starts with the Torah.

  1. Yeshua can be found there!

John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the Torah, and the Prophets, wrote: Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

  • How can you know the answer if you never knew the question?
  • They only recognized Yeshua as the Messiah because they knew the Torah.
  • The Torah is where the hidden treasure is found!
  1. So we can properly understand who Yeshua is!

Luke 24:27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Yeshua began with Moses and so should we. How can we claim to know Yeshua if we know nothing of His family, His culture or His country?

  1. So we can believe Yeshua is the Messiah!

John 5:46,47 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. But if  you do not believe his writing, how will you believe my words?”

If you throw out the Torah and claim it is irrelevant you have no validation for your belief in Yeshua. It is not a matter of Moses versus Jesus it is belief in that what Moses says proves your belief in Messiah!

  1. Torah sets your heart on fire!

Luke 24:32 They said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

There were no Gideon Bibles back then. All they had was the Tanakh. (Hebrew Old Testament) God says His Word is like a fire. Our hearts will burn when we allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the truths of the Torah to us.

  1. Torah, as the beginning, is the Key to prophetic understanding!

Isaiah 46:9,10 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

The Bible says it is to God’s Glory that he conceals matters and it is to our honor to search them out. You will never fully understand Revelation if you don’t understand Genesis and the Torah. They are bookends of one story.

  1. So we can know the promises to the family we are grafted into!

Romans 9:4,5 Who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

There are not two trees, one Jewish and one Christian. We are grafted into one tree and the early “church” fathers are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You are saved by the same faith that Abraham was saved by. Gen 15 v 6 And Abram believed the LORD and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith.

  1. Torah comes from the breath of God and is His Word!

2 Timothy 3:16,17 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Again there was no New Testament when this was written. The Torah equips us for every good work. The early church proved all their doctrines from the only scriptures they had –The Torah.

  1. Torah brings us liberty!

Psalms 119:43-48 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments. So shall I keep your law continually forever and ever? And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts. I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.

Only when we know our boundaries do we have true liberty as well as safety for everyone.

  1. Torah reveals God’s heart and is what makes our lives go well!

Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there was such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

God is the same yesterday, today and forever! God would never say that Torah is good, now Torah is bad, and now Torah is good again. The Torah is God’s instruction. His instruction is always for our good, as He loves us!

  1. Torah prevents us from being deceived and reveals false prophets!

Deuteronomy 13:1-5 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and join him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the evil away from the middle of you?

Any person who believes the Torah is done away with is a false prophet. There are many modern day “prophets” going around claiming to hear from God. Just ask them if the Torah is done away with?.

If they say, yes, Run for your lives!

Chanukah Newsletter

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Dear friends:

The Bible declares that there is nothing new under the sun. What happened back then is happening today. We are only building upon the sins of the fathers. Sadly, the events at the U.N. on Friday – will only get worse. We as a nation now have chosen to curse and betray the ‘siblings of the Messiah.’

There is a saying that the Church started it all with forced conversions declaring:
“Jews cannot live among us as Jews!”
Then, the nations of the world followed up on what the Church said by expelling the Jews from various countries and declared:
“Jews cannot live among us as Jews!”
Hitler simply built on the foundation that the Church and the nations had laid by stating:
“Jews cannot live among us as Jews!”

The National holidays of Israel point to a time of two such persecutions. Esther is the story of Purim – when Haman (like Amalek) wanted their extermination. Chanukah was a time of forced assimilation by the Greek Empire. The Hebrew word “Chanukah” (say “chah-noo-kah) literally means “dedication.” It is from this word that the holiday known as Chanukah gets its name. This festival is not one of the seven festivals of the Lord found in Leviticus chapter 23.

Some Background is needed
During the few hundred years prior to the Common Era (C.E.), the Hellenistic (Greek) armies of Alexander marched throughout the Middle East in a conquest to control the civilized world. The later Hellenistic armies, led by General Antiochus Epiphanies IV, sought to eliminate all traces Judaism which was alien to Hellenism, by fierce methods of assimilation.

He enforced strict anti-Torah policies, the forbidding of circumcision and public and private Torah reading. The Judeans resisted. Antiochus eventually seized complete control of the Temple itself, and in a public display of triumph and mockery, he sacrificed swine upon the altar itself, pouring swine urine on the Temple furniture and holy things. He also enforced the strict Hellenization of Israel by setting up a gymnasium in Jerusalem, compelling Jews to attend.  His activities are described as – And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt-offering, and they shall set up the ‘abomination that maketh desolate.’ Daniel 11:31. That phrase and its implications are covered in our study.

A resistance led by the Maccabean family began to fight back. When the Temple was eventually recaptured by the Judeans, it was in shambles. The altar had been ritualistically defiled by Antiochus’ armies. It was decided that before any reconstruction and repair could commence, the House itself had to be cleaned up and rededicated back to God. The story is recorded for us in the Apocryphal books known as the Maccabees.

The familiar 9-branched candlestick is known as a “Chanukah.” The Chanukah (the Hanukkah menorah) has very special instructions for how it is lit. The lampstand itself has eight candles, with one extra candle set apart or placed higher than the other candles. This special candle is the Shamash or servant candle. All the main candles on the menorah receive their light from the Shamash.

In the same manner, we receive our light from the Messiah, the Suffering Servant of The Almighty of whom it was written: “The One who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” (John 1:9)

The Bible tells us John 10 v 22 – It was now winter and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Temple during the time of Chanukah, the Festival of Dedication.

So this Festival of Lights is a time of dedication. Rededicate your Life to renewed service to the Messiah – the Light of the World.

Starting in a few weeks it is my hope to add weekly written and audio teachings to this site. We are adding almost 70 new books in January that we just completed processing. Some are quite exciting. Please forward our material to others.

Blessings

Richard A. Volunteer

Fourth of July – Independence or Slavery

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At Toastmasters we start our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, standing at attention with our right hand over our heart and face the American flag hanging in the corner.

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”,

Not being raised in America, gave me an opportunity to hear the pledge with adult ears and think about the words….One Nation under God……Liberty…. Justice for all…..

Does God see “One Nation under God” when He looks at America?

Do you think He cares that we are:

  • The world’s largest arms dealer
  • Largest consumer of illegal drugs
  • We lead the world in incarcerated citizens. We are 5% of the World population and we have 25% of world prisoners.
  • One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001 and African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.
  • We are number 1 in defense spending and outspend the next 15 countries combined despite the fact that 13 are our closest allies.
  • We send more missionaries preaching the “word of faith”  RIPOFF  to the poor in Africa and South America.
  • We destabilized the Middle East – and then went home leaving 6 countries in ruins and millions dead. They have reason to hate us…..
  • We are the largest creator and exporter of PORN to flood every smart phone on the planet – with a target age now of 10 years old….25% of all net traffic is porn.
  • We kill more unborn than any other nation and promote and fund abortion here and overseas. The number of legal abortions performed in the United States is about 1.5 million per year. In the United States, we deliberately kill one of every four unborn babies.
  • We  allow the sale of human body parts, despite its laws that are supposed to protect against it.
  • We promote the homosexual agenda, both domestically and internationally.
  • We lead the advertising and media industry, to mislead consumers.
  • We produce and promote poisonous food (banned all over except here) harming people and the environment.- G.M.O.’s and other poisons leading to an obese and undernourished nation.

We are not the greatest country in the world in any of the measures that matter.

  • We are
  • 7th in literacy,
  • 27th in math,
  • 22nd in science,
  • 49th in life expectancy,
  • 178th in infant mortality

 

America isn’t number one in:
The U.S. ranks 47th in press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders.
The U.S. is 25th among 43 developing countries for the best place to be a mother.
The U.S. is only the 11th happiest country in the world, according Columbia University.
There are 21 countries better than America in freedom from corruption, according to Heritage.org.
The U.S. was ranked 24th in perceived honesty, according to Transparency.org.
The U.S. is an embarrassing 142nd out of 150 countries in infrastructure investment, according to the CIA World Factbook. Our infrastructure is old and falling apart.
The US growth rate of industrial production is ranked 79th,according to the CIA World Factbook…..It seems we shipped all those jobs overseas.
The US. is ranked 192nd, dead last, in the net trade of goods and services,according to the CIA World Factbook.

Personally, I think God cares less about our failing industrial production and being the greatest debtor nation in history.

He does care about a  corrupt society, satiated in blood, drugs, and immorality. 

Ezekiel 16:48-50 God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying “Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done.” He explains that the sin of Sodom was that “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me.”

He further explains Jude 1:7…”Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange (Greek: different, other) flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of fire.”

If God is God,  who changes not …He has three choices….

To remain Just and Righteous…God must…

  • He has to destroy us.
  • He must change Us (Revival).
  • He must apologize to Sodom.

BREXIT – The world changed forever.

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Britain is the second-largest EU economy after Germany. It also has a seat on the UN Security Council, and it’s a close ally of the US, and of course, Australia.

Last year, Britain’s government borrowed an equivalent of 4.4 percent of its gross domestic product. The only EU nations with a higher level of borrowing are Spain and Greece, both troubled economies that have required some form of bailout.

Britain’s trade is in a dire position. Its current account deficit is at 7 percent of GDP—the highest peacetime level since records began in 1772. At the heart of this problem is the simple fact that Britain is importing far more than it is exporting.

BREXIT (the vote to leave the EU) was motivated by the following fears and concerns:

  • Over 300,000 immigrants directed from the EU settling in the U.K. in 2015 taking jobs and straining public services.
  • The inability to negotiate trade agreements unless all 28 nations of the EU agree and vote to adopt the agreement so trade with India and China and Australia were stalled.
  • Fears of a German proposal for an European Army separate from NATO, and the possibility of Turkey joining the EU and the subsequent new flood of economic refugees.

A short history of Britain in Europe

1951 – European Coal and Steel Community founded under the Treaty of Paris, as a way to prevent  future wars between France and West Germany

1957 – European Economic Community (EEC) founded under the Treaty of Rome (pictured) – original signatories are West Germany, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands

1963 and 1967 – French leader Charles de Gaulle vetoes UK membership.

1969 – UK applies for a third time, this time successfully

1973 – UK joins the EEC

1975 – UK holds its first referendum on membership of the EEC; votes to stay a member

1991 – Maastricht Treaty formally establishes the European Union as a political body

1999 – Single European currency adopted by 11 member states in 1999; UK does not join.

2016 – UK votes to leave the EU with 51 – 48 majority voting to leave or BREXIT.

On June 23rd 2016 the British people voted to leave the EU. Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty goes into effect for the first time ever, as the UK now has 24 months to negotiate its way out.

The successful BREXIT vote was clear and shocking. Financial markets plunged. Worldwide markets lost more than $2 trillion on Friday in paper wealth, according to data from S&P Global, the worst on record.  The pound traded at a 40 year low, and the Credit Agencies lowered Britain’s credit rating.

This event is as momentous as the end of the cold war and the Wall in Germany coming down.

The world is also economically due for another recession (7 years since 2008-2009)  and the discontented angry voters will stage more nationalistic uprisings. All over Europe we will see the rise of a Nationalist Right. America as in the 1930’s will become more isolationist leaving the rest of the world to fight their own battles. This will lead to a rearming of Japan, Korea, China and Germany.

The financial chaos of the 1929 crash and the subsequent depression gave rise to the following leaders who were nationalistic and promised answers to their nation’s woes.

  • Tito – Yugoslavia
  • Tojo –Japan
  • Mussolini –Italy
  • Hitler –Germany
  • Stalin –Russia
  • Mao –China
  • Franco – Spain

We are entering a similar time with all the same problems…..aggravated by an unstable Middle East and the Islamic threat. The EU will be under further threat as other countries like the Greece choose to leave.

There is an end time scenario that holds to a union of 10 kings arising in Europe. Revelation describes this union as….. The ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no power as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” (Rev. 17:12-13)   The message to us is to watch and pray….and just perhaps world events will shake us from our sleep.

 

BREXIT – Acts of God.

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This week we witnessed history in the making. Britain was to decide whether to stay in the EU. For weeks the BREXIT polls had been tied with all the establishment leaders including the Prime Minister confident in a “REMAIN” vote. Bookies offered 13 to 1 odds against a BREXIT.

The demographics pointed to the over 40 age favouring “LEAVE” and the younger voters wanting to “REMAIN.” London in the South had elected a Muslim mayor and favored “REMAIN” while the further North more and more favored to “LEAVE.” A high turnout was seen as helping the “remain” camp, a Wall Street Journal story said. That’s because it would suggest younger people, who typically don’t bother to vote, would actually cast ballots, and younger people supported EU membership.

Although the British seemed ready to vote in the Brexit referendum to “Remain” in the European Union, an intense “Act of God” storm system moved in and favor a vote for the “Leave” campaign by bringing a month’s worth of rain in “just three hours” on voting day.

The eve of the election at precisely midnight a huge storm hit England. Summer storms always came from the West and Atlantic Ocean. Eerily this storm came from Europe and Brussels in the East. In London alone 300 calls an hour poured in to emergency services…while 6,000 lightning strikes hit. The storms would move North from the Southeast as the day progressed.

The Breakdown was as follows:

Central England (High Brexit support): Largely dry day with more showers in the evening.

East (High proportion of Brexiters): Wetter than northern and central England with the chance of thunder during the afternoon.

Southwest (Around 40 per cent of people plan to vote leave): Wet and rainy during the morning, becoming clearer and drier through the afternoon.

Southeast (Relatively high percentage of leavers): Largely dry with showers around the coast.

London (High support to stay): Heavy rain in the morning, drying out later with thunderstorms predicted in the afternoon.

Two London polling stations were forced to close due to flooding. Another two, in Kingston-upon-Thames, had to be moved at the last minute. Then the London Underground flooded. Conspiracy theorists saw an attack on their democratic rights.  Even Britain’s loudest blond, Boris Johnson, who made it to his local polling station with only 18 minutes to spare after his flight from Edinburgh, was delayed by the weather.

Despite the storm, the flooded Underground, and the power blackouts the older voters came out. They held their nerve and were not deterred by warnings from the Bank of England, or by the money markets, that the pound would plunge (it did) and markets would crash (that happened too).

They were not defeated. The BREXIT “LEAVE” campaign won by more than a million votes. Europe and England were forever changed.

We forget who is Sovereign over all.

Leaders scheme and masses vote….but Daniel 2 v21 says It is God who alters the times and seasons, and He removes kings and promotes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. The weather played a part. Some feel it tipped the scales to favour BREXIT.  Jeremiah 10:13 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And He brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Creation Groans

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Over a single two week (14 day) period the we count staggering losses of fish, birds and animals. The words of the bible written 2000 year ago,  describe today's reality. Day after day, the dying continues.

Hosea 4 v 3   The LORD has a charge to bring against …………because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away…”

Zephaniah 1:3  “I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

5th May 2016 -  40,000 TONS of Salmon and 8,000 TONS of Sardines have washed up dead, due to red tide in Chile. Link

5th May 2016 - 30+ TONS of dead fish appear in a lake, 'people in shock' in Hainan, China. Link

4th May 2016 - 39,000 turkeys killed due to avian flu in Missouri, America. Link

4th May 2016 - Hundreds of cattle dead due to disease in Kampong Thom, Cambodia. Link

3rd May 2016 - 2,600 Turtles and thousands of sea birds found dead during past 6 months in southern Brazil. Link

3rd May 2016 - Massive fish kill in Lake Thunderbird in Oklahoma, America. Link

3rd May 2016 - Hundreds of TONS of fish suddenly die in Lake Toba, Indonesia. Link

2nd May 2016 - 200 TONS of fish found dead in a lake in Alfenas, Brazil. Link

2nd May 2016 - Thousands of dead jellyfish found washed ashore, 'a rare phenomenon' along Odisha coast in India. Link

2nd May 2016 - Hundreds of dead fish found in a lake in Florida, America. Link

30th April 2016 - Millions of dead molluscs found washed up on beaches, 'a disaster' in Los Lagos, Chile. Link

30th April 2016 - 14 TONS of dead fish found in a lake in Xiamen, China. Link

29th April 2016 - 80,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Al Biqa, Lebanon. Link

28th April 2016 - 100+ TONS of clams have died in central Vietnam. Link

28th April 2016 - 80,000 Chickens killed from fire at a farm in Connecticut, America. Link

26th April 2016 - 720,000 birds killed due to avian flu in various parts of Iraq. Link

25th April 2016 - 65 TONS of fish have died in the waters of Kampong Thom, Cambodia. Link

25th April 2016 - 40 TONS of fish have died in a lake in Nalgonda district, India. Link

23rd April 2016 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up on a beach in Cattlewash, Barbados. Link

23rd April 2016 - 70+ TONS of dead fish found in a river in Magdalena Department, Colombia. Link

23rd April 2016 - Massive die off of fish in a river in Hulunbuir, China. Link

22nd April 2016 - 1 TON of shrimp and other fish have died in a pond in Phuket, Thailand. Link

22nd April 2016 - 200,000 fish have died in fish farms in Taiping, Malaysia. Link

21st April 2016 - 50 dolphins found stranded, 10 dead on a beach in Cambutal, Panama. Link

21st April 2016 - Hundreds of fish die in a lake, 'whole lake is dead' in Alberta, Canada. Link

21st April 2016 - Massive die off of fish, 'never seen this before' in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.Link

21st April 2016 - Hundreds of fish die in a lake, 'never seen this before' in Princeton, New Jersey, America. Link

21st April 2016 - 190,000 birds killed, 62 farms closed, due to avian flu in Plateau, Nigeria. Link

21st April 2016 - Thousands of dead fish found in a lake in Yuriria, Mexico. Link

Losses are not measured in pounds but in thousands of tons. How long will it take for this trend to show up as shortages and higher food prices? Will that prompt our groaning?

Rom 8 v 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Blood Moons – Pattern Recognition or Prophecy?

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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?

Stock Cycles and Shemitah Years.

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  • 1966: Stock market collapse, Dow down 22%, Fed tightens, Vietnam War, protests
  • 1973: Oil embargo (Oct) Yom Kippur War, Stocks down 45%, recession
  • 1980: Inflation, Iran-Iraq war, Silver panic, 21% interest rates, Stocks crash, recession
  • 1987: Black Monday (Oct.) Largest single day crash ever
  • 1994: Bond collapse, DJIA bear market, Wars
  • 2001: Stock market crash, 9/11 (Sept.) Stocks lost 821 pnts (7.7%) in 3 days, recession
  • 2008/9: Stock market crash  9/29 (Sept.) Stocks lost 777 pnts (7%) Tarp Bailout, recession
  • 2015/16: ???

As a former stockbroker with Morgan Stanley I started my career just weeks after the Black Monday of October 1987.  The Seven Year Cycles in stocks caught my interest.  My career suffered a few of those cycles.

7 year cycle peaks at 2015

Jonathan Cahn a Messianic Rabbi has made the Shemitah Year a household word with his book the “Mystery of the Shemitah.” This Shemitah (Shmita) commandment was given to Israel in Leviticus 25 and was to govern their agriculture and their economics.

The Sabbath Year

In Leviticus chapter 25 v 1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruit, 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5 That which grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines, for it is a year of complete rest for the land. (Lev.25:1-7).

The Year for Canceling Debts

Deuteronomy 15 v 1 – At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

God took this land rest so seriously that He only allowed Israel to violate the command for 490 years then He came to collect on the 70 years of rest they owed the land. They were taken into captivity for 70 years to give the land an opportunity to rest.

Jeremiah 25 v 11 This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. …13 I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

2 Chronicles 36 v 19 – 22  So they burned down the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, burned down all the palaces with fire, and destroyed all the precious items. 20 Then he carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who survived the sword, and they were slaves to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia ruled, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

So the question remains …. Does this apply to America?  The land rest command was only given to Israel which was a Theocracy bound to YHVH in covenant with their borders defined in scripture. God calls that particular piece of property “His land.”

The USA is a Gentile nation (melting pot of the world) which cannot assume those promises/curses as some kind of New Israel.  That is just another version of Replacement Theology. The USA is not Israel and given her moral behavior and national character….she is no longer even a “Christian nation.”

However…..Ps 24 v 1  says “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.“ He is coming back to rule it with a Universal Law. Those Shmita Laws were given by the  “God that does not change.” Would those Land Rest Laws (Shmita) not be implemented over all the earth?  He is coming to reign for 1000 years, and of His government there will be no end?

Are we in America suffering the unintended economic consequences of ignoring those economic principles? Regardless…the principle of reaping what we have sown will be judgement enough to bring about our ruin.