Burning the House Down...Obamas Last Stand

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December 30, 2016

Burning the House Down...Obamas Last Stand

What a child. A tantrum pouty child. Yes Barak Hussein Obama is quickly descending down to the dregs of Presidential Has-beens.

Obama's Legacy is what Obama is really lusting after, and this will be good for a few Liberal Left Loons, however for mainstream America, he is quickly becoming a bad taste in our mouths.Which is really too bad as almost everyone had some hope for Obama. We, for the most part, wanted him to succeed.

He didn't. Although he claimed he did. It took Donald Trump to scratch the record and start a new conversation.

The last days of Obamas Administration are sure to be anger and angst filled, as Obama continues to piss off allies and non-allies alike, steal lands for government set asides and do everything in his power to make President Trumps start to be difficult.

You have no honor Obama, you have no care for your fellow man, just yourself and your progressive liberal imbeciles.

Lets look at some of the carnage from Obama

First of all, it seems that Russia and Turkey have brokered a cease fire deal...without the US.

This is a slap in the face to Obama and proves that the rest of the world doesn't need Obama to engage cease fires.

After all, Obama wants everyone to think of him as a man of peace, right?

Cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey begins across Syria

A cease-fire announced by the Syrian government went into effect across the country early Friday as part of a broader deal that includes a return to peace talks after more than five years of a war.
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reestablished control over the northern city of Aleppo earlier this month, forcing rebels to flee what was once their largest stronghold and handing the government a victory that appeared to bring the war’s endgame into view.

The Assad government, backed by Russia and Iran, is now in its strongest position since the start of the war, while rebel groups are mostly boxed into the northwestern province of Idlib and hold no strategically significant urban areas.

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Now we move to the "Russian Hacking" issue

Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election

The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.

The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.

Nor has it corroborated subsequent leaks from anonymous officials contending that the CIA believes the campaign was an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure Donald Trump’s victory. 
President Obama has ordered the intelligence community to produce a complete review of its findings before Trump takes office on Jan. 20. The White House has said it will make as much of the report public as it can.

But officials have warned that the document will contain “highly sensitive and classified information” and it is unclear how much concrete evidence it will be able to release.
Releasing any documentation of Russian interference would be a slap in the face to Trump, who has rejected assertions that the Kremlin was involved in the hacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

The president-elect and his team have treated any suggestion of Russian involvement as an attack on the legitimacy of his election, and Republican leaders in Congress have treaded carefully on the issue.

The firestorm ignited by the CIA’s assessment has spurred calls from both parties for the administration to provide proof of Russian meddling.

In late November, seven Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee urged the White House to declassify “additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election.”
As of last week, they had not yet received a response.

The House Intelligence Committee earlier this month demanded a briefing on the subject but was rebuffed by intelligence leaders, who said they will not brief Congress again until the completion of the report for the White House.

 re documentation. 
Vice journalist Jason Leopold and Ryan Shapiro, a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the office of the director of national intelligence seeking records pertaining to Russian interference. 
And even Trump’s transition team has said the White House should provide definitive proof to back up its claims.

"If the CIA Director [John] Brennan and others at the top are serious about turning over evidence … they should do that," Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said earlier this month. "They should not be leaking to the media. If there's evidence, let's see it."

Which leads to this....note the next to last paragraph.


Investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of Democratic Party organizations.

The document makes clear reference to the hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, though it does not mention either by name. 

The 13-page report provides technical details regarding tools and infrastructure used by Russian civilian and military intelligence services to “compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. Government, political, and private sector entities.” (See the entire report below.)

The report, known as a “Joint Analysis Report” or JAR, refers to the Russian hacking campaign as “Grizzly Steppe.”  

It comes as part of a slate of retaliatory measures against Russia issued Thursday by the Obama administration in response to the hacks, and expands on a joint statement issued by the two agencies in October, formally attributing the attacks to Russia.

In the October statement, officials described the the hacks and subsequent publication of stolen emails on WikiLeaks as an attempt to “interfere” with the U.S. election that is “consistent with the Russian-directed efforts,” but provided no evidence to support their assessment.

President-elect Donald Trump has denied that Russia was involved in the hacks, and Obama has been under pressure to provide proof. 

 

The luxurious, 45-acre compound in Maryland being shut down for alleged Russian espionage

On Thursday afternoon, the Obama administration announced its long-awaited retaliation for what has been characterized as Russian interference in November's presidential election.
Among the wide-ranging measures, the White House announced that the State Department would be closing two Russian-owned compounds — one in Maryland and one in New York — that it says were used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes. It is also declaring 35 Russians “persona non grata” for their alleged role in intelligence operations.

How hidden were these alleged spy compounds? At least in the case of Maryland, the answer is simple: not very.

[U.S. takes action against Russia for election hacking]

The compound in Maryland sits on around 45 acres of land at Pioneer Point, a peninsula where the Corsica and Chester rivers merge — around a 90-minute drive from downtown Washington, by the Eastern Shore town of Centreville in Queen Anne's County.

The site was purchased by the Soviet government in 1972, and became something of a resort for Soviets living in the United States. It is the former estate of John J. Raskob, a former executive for DuPont and General Motors perhaps best known as the builder of the Empire State Building. The Soviets later added to the estate by making a deal with the State Department, which received two properties in Moscow in return.

At the time of its purchase, there was some resistance to the sale of the building to the Soviets, with the local newspaper reporting there were “fears of nuclear submarines surfacing in the Chester River to pick up American secrets and defectors.”

But by 1974, the New York Times reported that many locals had been won over, with the help of dinner parties and gifts of vodka and caviar. “As far as neighbors are concerned you couldn't ask for better,” Joe Handley, a former estate manager for Raskob, told The Washington Post in 1979. “They don't bother anybody.”

A reporter from the local Star Democrat newspaper in Easton visited the site in 1987 — in large part because of the long-standing rumors that it was being used for espionage. The resulting article, also published in The Post, noted the tall chain-link fence outside the compound and the video cameras monitoring the gate, but also the lime-green bungalows, swimming pools and numerous tennis courts.

“Tomorrow we have a game,” one tennis player identified as Yevgeny told the reporter. “We have a tournament with the International Monetary Fund. They have a beautiful team. But this year, God knows who will win.”

After the turmoil of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pioneer Point was bought by the Russian Federation — at the time, the Associated Press reported its value was $3 million. Local residents told the AP that they didn't have any problems with the Russians who visited the compound.
''I live down the road from them. We fish and crab with them. There's usually one that speaks English for the group,'' a woman named as Bonnie Delph told the AP.

The compound has been in the news very little since then. Nine years ago, the Russian ambassador to the United States, Yuri Ushakov, invited a reporter from Washington Life magazine to tour the grounds, explaining that for him it was like the traditional Russian summer house, or dacha, he was used to back home. “Because we have such a hectic life in Washington, we need a place to hide for a while,” his wife, Svetlana, was quoted as saying.

A man who answered the phone for a number listed online for the Pioneer Point compound said it was a wrong number, before adding that he did not speak English.

On Thursday, U.S. officials would not confirm the location of the New York compound being shut down — saying only that it was a 14-acre property on Long Island that had been purchased by the Soviet government in 1954. However, a number of Russia-watching bloggers pointed towards the Killenworth estate on Dosoris Lane in Glen Cove, which acts as the country home for Moscow's delegation to the United Nations. The grand country house was once owned by American philanthropist George Dupont Pratt.

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Jerry

Living In A Food Processor

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December 6, 2016

Living in a Food Processor

Tit For Tat

Russian medical personnel killed at hospital by "Rebels"

Smoke rises following a Syrian government air strike on rebel positions, in eastern Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. The government seized large swaths of the Aleppo enclave under rebel control since 2012 in the offensive that began last week. The fighting was most intense Monday near the dividing line between east and west Aleppo as government and allied troops push their way from the eastern flank, reaching within less than a kilometer, about half a mile, from the citadel that anchors the center of the city. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press

Super accurate mortar rounds kill Russian medical personnel at a field hospital in Aleppo.

Let's understand this, hospitals should be off limits...period. However, both sides target hospitals on a regular basis.

This action has another facet to it. Russia claims that the Rebels (remember those guys are Al-Qeda, and any other Allah Akbar group that we recently were at war with, but now support) were give targeting information by...lets let Russian Maj General Igor Konashenkov speak; "an unspecified number of residents at the field hospital were wounded, and he accused the U.S., Britain and France of telling the rebels the location of the hospital.

“The blood of our soldiers is on the hands of those who ordered this murder — those who created, nurtured and armed these beasts in human form and named them the ‘opposition,’” he said.

So, Russia accuses us of giving targeted information to the "rebels", basically this is the proxy war I've been talking about previously. This makes the US, Great Britain and France targets as well.

The Russian response can be counted on. 

Will President Trump have better success in this matter? I sure hope so.

Another tool in the Battle

Alligator in Syria

This attack helo is Russia's version of an Apache like craft. There is no humanitarian action on the agenda for Alligator crews.

You know, I could go on and on about this weapons system or that weapon system. The end result is they all produce death.

This is not Gods design

This is not how God intended His creation to live.

Nowhere in Gods Word the Bible do I read that God says it's OK to kill maim and destroy innocent people.

This brings us back to Israel

Kerry and Netenyahu about a two state solution

Obama would have liked to have a solution in the Middle East. That would for him be a better legacy that what he's saddled with now. As is typical of Obama and Kerry, its always the other guys fault. They cannot see WHY Israel wouldn't want "peace". It's beyond their thinking...just like their recent loss in the Elections...,they just don't understand.

Lets look at the past. I'll make this simple for you. Israel has and will bend over backward for peace. Israeli's want peace, and they are willing to give for that. However, the Palestinians want Israel destroyed. They don't want any part of Israel, they want all of Israel.

How do you negotiate with that?­

You can't. You either destroy them or they destroy you.

The Bible speaks of this hatred against Israel in Psalm 83

Psalm 83

Do not keep silent, O God!
Do not hold Your peace,
And do not be still, O God!
² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult;
And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent;
They form a confederacy against You:

The maps speak for themselves.

Now

Proposed 

The UN speaks

The Palestinian response. I kid you not this is what they actually said;

The PA’s Foreign Ministry said, “We regret that few countries succumbed to the PR bullying orchestrated by Israel, which shifted the focus from Israel's illegal and colonial actions in occupied East Jerusalem to issues irrelevant to the content and objectives of the resolutions, which aims to put an end to Israel's dangerous and illegal actions against holy sites in Jerusalem and Palestinian rights, including the right to worship.

“Palestine will continue to defend the rights of our people through all available legal and diplomatic avenues, including UN organizations. Our peaceful agenda will not be derailed by propaganda, nor will our tolerance and adherence to international law be altered by fallacies and cynical spin,” the PA Foreign Ministry said.

Seriously...adherence to law and peaceful agenda...oh boy.

And so it goes....

This Coming War...What Do We Know?

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December 2, 2016

This Coming War...What Do We Know?

With all of the computer super powers we have I'm sure that they have calculated that we are going to war.

It's inevitable...it's going to happen.

We know who it is we are going to war with, and we know the likelihood of  where we are going to war, but we don't know when.

Look at this map. This is a very likely flash point.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Now, do you see that small spit of a place Kaliningrad?

 NATO, Latvia and Lithuania are also NATO, Kaliningrad is Russian.

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is comprised of 28 countries who have agreed to the charters terms and agree to aid one another in time of war. Basically it works like this; attack one of us and we ALL will attack you. This group is expanding and represents a counter to Russia's aggression., whether real or imagined. NATO has had new life breathed into it since the 2014 Russian invasion/annexation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

Back to K'grad,  (Im spelling it this way due to laziness in having to type it over and over) was recently in the news. Remember this?

Russia just sent this missile system into K'grad

This is the Iskander. A short range, maybe 300 miles, conventional and nuclear tipped weapon. This puts Berlin Germany, Poland and Sweden in it's sights. Russia has also set up their S400 anti-missile, anti aircraft defense system nearby. Remember the S400? that's the very same system Russia set up in Syria to protect their new airbase and warm water port.

This is the part of the world war that will probably go nuclear.

Now, lets look back at the war, yes I said war, in Syria.

Here is what God wants you to know;

1. Damascus Syria will be utterly destroyed, and overnight.

2. Russia will lead an attack on Israel, and will be backed by Iran, Turkey, Lybia, Sudan and quite possibly some of the European nations.

3. The US and Saudi Arabia will be on the sidelines, doing nothing.

4. Israel will not prevail against Russia.

5. God Himself will show up and destroy Russia's army and airforce.

6. All the world will know there is a God

Lets look at it.

#1 Damascus Syria. One of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. The prophet Isaiah prophesied in

Isaiah chapter17 vs 1

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

This has never happen in recorded history, we read in verse 12-14

Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,

And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹³ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,

And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹⁴ Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he is no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us

What we read is that the world will be all astir at this conflict, the battle over Damascus and their million plus inhabitants, then in the course of one night...gone. Did Isaiah foresee nuclear war? How would a prophet 2800 years ago describe something like this?

What would be a cause for Damascus to get nuked? What if chemical weapons were being amassed and prepared for use against Israel?

Far fetched?

The Syrian government thinks nothing of using chemicals against its own people. Do you think they wouldn't hesitate to use this against Israel to retake the Golan Heights?

Israel's response would be swift and nuclear. That's stating the obvious. World opinion against Israel would be overwhelmingly bad. Thats also stating the obvious. You can just  imagine what the UN would be saying, and the possibility of Barak Obama having a UN leadership role looks probable right now. Obamas disdain for Israel is readily apparent.

Lets look at #2. the Russian led assault

Another of the major prophets Ezekiel was given a vision of the end times and specifically the rebirth of the nation Israel and this war.

In his excellent work Gog-Magog, Nathan Jones presents a thorough and thoughtful analysis of this extremely import section of the Bible. If you get the chance, please take some time and read this. Lets look at the chapter and work through the problems.

Ezekiel Chapter 38

Gog and Allies Attack Israel

38 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,^[a] Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, ³ and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. ⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. ⁵ Persia, Ethiopia,^[b] and Libya^[c] are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ⁶ Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.

⁷ “Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them. ⁸ After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. ⁹ You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
¹⁰ ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: ¹¹ You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— ¹² to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. ¹³ Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’
¹⁴ “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? ¹⁵ Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. ¹⁶ You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” ¹⁷ Thus says the Lord God: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

Judgment on Gog

¹⁸ “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face. ¹⁹ For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, ²⁰ so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’ ²¹ I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. ²² And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. ²³ Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”’

Who is Gog?

I am going to paste Lamb and Lion Ministries analysis. Please keep in mind, this analysis draws the very same conclusions that Biblical scholars have drawn for many years. The strange thing is, Russia didn't even exist during Ezekiels day

From Nathan Jones and Lamb and Lion Ministries:

The Nations
Ezekiel 38:1-6 gives the ancient names of the territories that comprise the invading nations in the Gog-Magog Battle: Rosh, Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Gomer and Beth-togarmah. If only Ezekiel had gone the extra mile and given the names of the invading nations contemporary to the battle, a lot of debate over their modern identities would have been saved. Never-the-less, God prefers students of Bible prophecy to do their historical research, and the following list of equivalent names is the fruit of that research.

1.     Magog = Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan (and possibly Afghanistan)

2.     Rosh = Russia

3.     Meshech + Tubal + Gomer + Beth-togarmah = Turkey (and possibly Azerbaijan, Armenia)

4.     Persia = Iran

5.     Ethiopia = Sudan

6.     Put = Libya (and possibly Algeria, Tunisia)

Noticeably absent from this list of Middle Eastern nations are those surrounding modern-day Israel, such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Gaza, the Arab nations and Iraq. Ezekiel 38:13 describes these nations as just observing, for many of them originate as “Sheba and Dedan [Arab nations] and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages.” Why these nations are not also actively involved in the Gog-Magog Battle is open to speculation, but a Psalm 83 scenario where Israel has subjugated their surrounding neighbors previous to the Gog-Magog invasion so that they are finally in the peaceful situation Ezekiel describes (Ezek. 38:11) is the most likely possibility.
One glaring similarity among all the Gog-Magog invaders put in a scenario today is that all but Russia claim their national religion to be Islam. Islamic religious fervor to destroy the Jewish people would unite the fractious Muslim nations into a coalition which has never existed in this form before. The obsessive drive for economic wealth would be the draw for Russia to join in and lead this doomed coalition.

I believe this to be the next installment on Gods plan for Israel and this world. In reading the Bible in its entirety, one gets a feeling for a big picture event.
Remember the old cowboy movies? The sweeping landscapes, the endless vistas, mesas, mountains and cumulous cloud filled skies? Then the story would drill down and unfold and get personal, very personal.
Keeping that analogy on mind, we have been on an almost 2,000 year intermission. Gods story has been getting personal with individuals for a long time.

 Its been fairly quiet on the earthly God front. Jesus has been building His church (translated from the Greek word Ekklisea) this literally means Called Out Ones and we have spread the Word across the globe like we were mandated to.

Now, its curtain time...and the show will go on.

Are you ready for it?

The Soon Coming War

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December 1, 2016

The Soon Coming War.

Yup...The Mid East...again.

Have you ever wondered WHY Israel? Think about it for a moment. Here is this small country, the size of New Jersey, that every time a building gets built or they try to be as normal as any other nation, the world media goes apoplectic over it.

As comedian Jerry Seinfeld used to say "What's the deal?!!!"

If you pull up any of the "Israeli News sites" you will find story after story of Palestinians attacking civilians. Other state actors like Hezbolla up north in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza area, and a cauldron of others who continually spring up with the express purpose to attack Israel, and kill Jews.

So, lets set the record straight. I'm not Jewish. Im Scotch Irish and as Gentile as they come. I am also a follower of Jesus Christ, Yeshua...you get my point.

So this land, Israel was one of the most important in world history. A couple thousand years ago, the God of the universe, created a people for Himself. They are called the Jews, or Hebrews, however you want to call it, the fact remains. These people were given a land in perpetuity, this small land we call Israel. Ok, so the nation of Israel rejected God and God kicked them out, scattered them all over the world, and promised to forgive them and in the latter days bring them back.

That happened in 1948.

From 1948 onward, the land of Israel went from a dusty rock filled swampy desolate place, to now a vibrant farming area. With water being as scarce as it is in that area, Israel leads the world in drip irrigation technology. Israel also is a world leader in technology. You have to admit a certain jealousy over the success of this Jewish nation. I wish our nation were as focused and prosperous as Israel.

Their advances in technology became life saving when the Palestinanians fired more than 4,000 rockets at civilians during July and August of 2014.  Israels Iron Dome anti-missile system performed admirably, protecting the locals much to the Arabs dismay. 

So, with this Iron Dome system, increased food production, Jews moving in from all over the world, Israel should be sitting pretty and safe right? They wish, and Bible believing Christians also wish, but it is not so Im afraid.

The battle lines were drawn in the Garden of Eden. The chief architect of rebellion, Satan, has his sights on opposing God at every opportunity. The main focus of Satan's wrath is the Jew.

Let's use another analogy from the Seinfeld Show. One of the characters George Castanza, was having rotten luck with work and relationships. So he decided to "do the opposite", lo and behold...it worked!

Just do the opposite.

That's Satan's game plan in a nut shell.

God authors peace and truth. Satan spawns confusion, deception and lies.

God blesses marriage between man and woman. Do the opposite...same sex marriage.

Do you want to live a peaceful life and raise kids to follow the Lord? Make it exceedingly difficult. Use the media to promote everything against God at every opportunity. Promote the dark forces, make the good seem evil and the evil seem good. In other words, do the opposite.

Here's one that we can relate to; Celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (you know Christmas?)...Satans plan? Turn it into a massive commercialized month long spending spree, void of Christ, full of Santa.

And so on and so on...you get the picture.

So, here we are in the year 2016. Israel has been back in the land for almost 70 years. The heat is now turning up in the Middle East.

Syria is the new Iraq/Lybia/Afghanistan.

The estimates on Syrian loss of life is about a quarter of a million killed. This country is ruled by Bashar Al-Assad. His rule is characterized as brutally murderous. He doesn't care how many die, just as long as he is in power. 

So Assad asks for some help. The Iranians are more than glad to help, especially if it means killing Sunni's or gearing up to destroy Israel. Assad gives right of way to Iran when it comes to weapons storage and transit towards Lebanon, where the de facto anti Israel army Hezbolla is in control.

Israel is now covertly attacking weapons depots and weapons shipments in Syria.

Assad also asked Russia for help. This is the 800lb gorilla in the room. It looks like Russia has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to keep Assad in power. They have been given total access to the port in Latakia and free reign of airspace.

What do you think would be Putins motivation for helping Assad? After all there has to be SOMETHING, right?

A news article posted in April said that Putin said that he intends to give the Golan Heights back to Syria.

A few days later Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said The Golan will remain a part of Israel forever.  

Ok so other than the Golan being militarily very, very important to the national security of Israel, what else is there?

Oil...and lots of it.

Now we know what's at stake.

Next up we will look at what the Bible has to say about this very time...its important and most likely you will see it come to fruition...soon, very soon.

Lord willing, see you tomorrow.

Shalom.

Jerry

One Step Closer Part 2

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November 30, 2016

One Step Closer Part 2

Yesterday I posted a piece on what I feel is another step towards, what I feel is, an inevitable confrontation between Israel and Russia.

I tried to identify some of the reasons, however, the more I write, the more it becomes apparent that this is a big wad of pasta noodles. To get to one point means untangling the entire mess.

Lets look deeper, ok?

There are some who say that we need to just be out of the Middle East. That to be involved is just a disaster waiting to happen. On the outside that would be a good assessment...however, its too late for that. We have to acknowledge that we screwed up and in a big way.

You see, President Obama ran on a promise to get out of the Middle East. If that is the case, why are we still there? Why are we providing so many weapons? So our Nobel Peace Prize President makes a claim that He's really good at killing people.

Please take a minute and watch the video

So now, who's our Daddy?

Saudi Arabia owns us, lets face it. Our addiction to oil has us scraping the barrel like a junkie. We had no choice...that is until we started to regularly produce our own supplies. Remember $3.00 plus a gallon gas? What happened? American ingenuity and the entrepreneurial spirit took over and we found ways to produce our own oil. We drilled and separated from shale and oil sand. Then our good friends the Saudis started dropping the price.

Generous weren't they? No, quite the opposite...they wanted to put small oil companies out of business. You know, eliminate the competition. It also looks like our own production killed off our own rally, Crazy as it seems, the oil companies were pretty leveraged out, meaning they borrowed money to lease or buy equipment. So when the prices started to drop...oops. They say over 175 oil companies could go bankrupt this year alone.

So what do the Saudis really want? Money? No, they have enough for many lifetimes. They want us to protect them, while they spread their radical terrorist Wahhabiasm. These wealthy elite cowards need protection from...drum roll please...Iran. Yeah the Shiite minorities want nothing more than to shove a nuclear weapon up The Saudi monarchies keister...and the Saudis know that, and they are afraid. Oh and the Iranians also want Israel destroyed and the US destroyed too, just had to add that.

I dont know if the House of Saud is fearful of President Donald Trump, but they better be mindful of him. President Trump isnt a globalist, they better  understand that if they want a relationship with the US. Its going to be a different game with Trump. I for one am really glad of it too. Lets leave that for a moment, and maybe that will be the topic for another time.

Sorry for my rant...

Back to Israel and Russia...

Now yesterday I posed a question. That was, if Mexico had intentions to protect their military bases and put a S400 system near the southern US border. How would the US respond?

We know how they would respond. The same way they responded when Cuba allowed The Soviets to use their island to base nuclear missiles. We were very, very close to nuclear war at that time.

If Russia wants to blanket Israel with radar and a very plausible threat to deny airspace, while giving Israel's enemies cover to move weapons and men...Israel will attack. You cant blame them either. You did notice that Russia moved their ONLY aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria, right?

The Admiral Kuznetsov, is a ski jumped looking behemoth. Vastly different than US aircraft carriers. It has also been reported today that Russia has blanketed the entire Syrian coast and inland with new missile batteries and weapons systems, designed not to go after ISIS...after all ISIS has no aircraft...but to protect against? Who then? Israel? The US? Turkey? Maybe all three.  

Now we are getting reports that the submarine game is going full steam ahead. Oh by the way Israel has the German made Daulphin class submarines. Very quiet and nuclear missile capable. Quiet enough to give our submarines a fit, and powerful enough to sink a certain smoke spewing aircraft carrier.

It was also reported that a Dutch sub, was chased out of the area by Russian ships. You read that right, a Dutch sub...operating off Syria, gathering intelligence on the Russians. Please pass the popcorn, this is getting exciting.

Its getting tight in Syria. For sure. All the players are unashamedly showing up...except for Iran. I expect that to change too.

Where is this leading? You would think that the God who put Israel back together would have something to say about all this, right? Im sure the backroom dealings, the intrigue and overall carnage would get the Creators attention, right?

Well, it has.

Lets step back for a minute. God spoke through his prophet Isaiah about 700 years before Jesus Christ walked this planet, that puts this about 2700-2800 years ago.

Isaiah 42: 8-9  I am the Lord, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

He told Isaiah that He alone is God, and there is no other, and that He will tell of things from the end to the beginning. That is one of Gods messages to man.

In the next chapter He tells Israel, 43:1 But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.

If there is any doubt about the status of Israel, lets put that to rest right now. Now, because of Israel's sin against God, He kicked them out of the land and scattered them across the world. It was this way til 1948, when Israel became a nation again, and the entire weight of the Jew hating world came crashing down on them. However, God raised up a nation to protect them. That nation was US. We had Israels back and sometimes that relationship was rocky, and sometimes sweet. But they were always, always special in our sight. As Christians we know the importance of Israel.

We read in Ezekiel 36, God told the land to get ready for His peoples return. Israel went from a dust and rock filled land to a green food producing nation, now exporting produce around the globe. In Ezekiel 37 we read that God told the "dry bones" to come together. This is the Israeli people.

In chapter 38, we read of intrigue. The Bible tells us that a coalition of forces, led by a nation to the North of Israel and called Rosh in a nation called Magog. Biblical scholars have for years identified as best that can be determined as Russia, Turkey. Iran, Lybia and Sudan. Notice that Saudi Arabia and the US are not listed in the attacking forces. They simply are on the sidelines.

This begs the question, how does our situation right now compare to the Biblical prophecy?

There is so much materiel that it becomes almost impossible to put this together in a simple blog format.

My brother-in-law and I were having breakfast at the local diner the other day. I talked with him about how our elections have changed the dynamic of the Middle East. He raised a point that stuck with me. He slid his coffee cup to the edge of the table and said "One day we will go off the edge, and maybe we are at the edge right now, but Gods hand is holding us back from crashing."

Good analogy.

Just because we have elected Mr Trump, and he has given us his word that Israel will not be treated like Obama treated them...our nation is set to crash.

I dont see a Make Us Great Again in our near future. Its not that we cant be great again, we certainly can, its that in order to be great again we need the hand Almighty God to guide us and there are too many in this land that hate that idea.