Habakkuk 1:5 Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. -LORD God
The Day of Atonement is viewed as the holiest day of Judaism. The day is a Sabbath of rest. Yom Kippur is the only appointment a fast is required. The appointment begins at sun down. It is the last day of the 40 day period of Teshuvah. See Leviticus 16 for details of Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.
1 Thessalonians 5:13 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
“We are at the cusp of a historic peace between Israel 🇮🇱 and Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦… between Jerusalem and Mecca… between the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael.” – @IsraeliPM#MBSpic.twitter.com/oxpkMZacom
This is a must listen interview with Mohammed Bin Salman. Below is a list of topics discussed with Fox’s Bret Baier. MBS has command of the English language. This interview is loaded with significant content.
G20 Rail Imports from India to Europe
Normalized relations with Israel
Relations with the United States
Iranian relations and nuclear weapons
China
BRICS
Russia
Oil production supply and demand
Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and political dissent
Erdogan denounces antisemitism and announces plans to visit Israel during meeting with Jewish leaders in New York. @ZvikaKlein reports ➡ https://t.co/o7iDhBLAD8
Russia has released a list of "friendly and neutral" countries allowed to trade on its currency exchange market:
– China – Cuba – United Arab Emirates – Saudi Arabia – Turkey – South Africa – Azerbaijan – Algeria – Armenia – Bangladesh – Bahrain – Belarus – Brazil – Venezuela -…
The conflict, which had been simmering for more than 30 years, ended in two days with #Azerbaijan's victory and restoration of control over its internationally recognised territory.
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said an agreement had been reached in #Karabakh:
Luke 21:11a There will be great earthquakes… -Jesus
Friday, September 8, 2023, Marrakech, Morocco: An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 to 7.2 struck at 11:11 p.m. As of this post, over 2,000 are reported as dead. Hundreds of people are injured and missing.
Keep in mind, Israel and Morocco have a relationship in the Abraham Accords.
“Minister (Yoav) Gallant instructed the IDF and defense establishment to prepare for the provision of humanitarian aid and search-and-rescue efforts, should they be required,” Israeli Spokesman.
Israel is providing field hospitals and technology to assist in the identification and location of quake victims. Food and water are delivered as well.
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
There are those who are looking at this event and pointing towards the words of Jeremiah 11. Context of the verse says these words are intended for the nation Israel. Specifically, the cities of Judah and Jerusalem are the audience. This event is not the fulfillment of prophecy.
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Joshua 24:32 As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
August 31, 2023: Joseph’s tomb is located in the city of Nablus in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority is allegedly in charge of the area.
Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
JUST IN: California State Assembly has just passed a bill allowing parents to lose custody of their children if they refuse to accept their child's gender transition.
They want your kids.
“California lawmakers send Gov. Gavin Newsom a proposed law that would require judges to… pic.twitter.com/At37QC4jZy
“Affirming” our children is not being a parent. The child should be, and needs to be, told NO and corrected. Children do not understand what is in their best interest. They need to be taught right and wrong. Children simply are not mentally or emotionally developed or have the reasoning skills to make these and many life altering decisions.
There are long term consequences to gender reassignment. The critics and experts tell us this is not about sex. Yet surgical reassignment, a man made manipulation, is the answer for one’s long term happiness and well being?
And now the state of California wants to intervene on behalf of the children…
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Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
Hurricane Lee is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean. Friendly reminder. God’s Fall Feasts start next weekend with Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets or Yom Teruah. Appears to be right on schedule. Who knows what other surprises may be in store for planet Earth.
Hazardous beach conditions to spread across the western Atlantic this week. Too soon to know level of impacts for US East coast or Atlantic Canada late this week, so stay tuned for updates. https://t.co/w5INoaj9KXpic.twitter.com/NaXXHp21Mz
2 soldiers were killed by live fire adjacent to the Egyptian border, and the third during an exchange of fire with an assailant in the area of the Paran Regional Brigade. An IDF NCO was also lightly injured. 1/2
Ezekiel 38:3-4 …and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.
Israel discovers more natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea. The Katlan gas field has an estimated 68 billion cubic meters (BCM) of natural gas. When combining the Leviathan, Tamar, Karish, and Tanin gas fields, Israel has over 1,000 BCM of natural gas reserves. Israel consumes approximately 13 BCM per year. More bait to set the hooks (plural) in Gog’s jaw.
Afghanistan Algeria Argentina Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Egypt Indonesia Iran Kazakhstan Mexico Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Saudi Arabia Senegal Sudan Syria The United Arab Emirates Thailand Tunisia Turkey Uruguay Venezuela…
Leviticus 23:15-16 ‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.
On a Gregorian calendar, we are in the year of 2023, the holiday of Shavuot/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost begins at sunset on Thursday, May 25th. The God Appointed holiday ends at sunset Saturday, May 27th. The Feast takes place in the month of Sivan on the 6th and 7th of a Hebrew calendar. This is the Hebrew year 5783.
Provisions for the holiday include two loaves of bread, sacrificial lambs, a bull, two rams, a goat, and a drink offering of wine. The holiday is also a day of rest with no work (Leviticus 23:17-21).
In the Old Testament and in the Hebrew, this holiday is referred to as Shavuot. The word means: weeks.
Shavuot is one of the three holidays where Jewish men are required to come to Jerusalem (Exodus 23:14-17). The men were to make their presentation and sacrifice before God at the Temple.
As stated in the Leviticus passage, it is seven weeks after Passover. It is a celebration of the completed grain harvest. The holiday is also a celebration of God giving the Torah (instruction or law) to nation Israel. Because of this, Shavuot is considered as the beginning or birth of Judaism.
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The Law was given on Mount Sinai roughly 1,500 years before Christ. Nation Israel honored this holiday every year. Eating and drinking dairy products are part of the celebration of Shavuot. Many think the custom of dairy products is in reference to Bible verses referring to a promised land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:8a “So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey…
Fast forward to 33 AD. Nation Israel is celebrating and living the holiday.
Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they (apostles) were all together in one place.
In the Greek New Testament, Shavuot (Hebrew) is translated as Pentekoste (Greek). Per Strong’s Concordance, it means: the fiftieth day; the second of the three great Jewish feasts, celebrated at Jerusalem yearly, the seventh week after the Passover, in grateful recognition of the completed wheat harvest. We have transliterated the word to Pentecost (English).
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Pentecost or Shavuot is the day promised by Jesus of the giving of the Holy Spirit.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
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Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
It is seven weeks after the death of the sacrificial lamb, Jesus. Shavuot or Pentecost is also the day God the Father gave the Holy Spirit. Because of this, Pentecost is considered the beginning or the birth of the church (believers in Jesus Christ).
Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit…”
Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Russia is evacuating about 18 settlements near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The concern a “severe nuclear accident”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicated the situation was “becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous”.
Zephaniah 2:4-5 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted. Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
As usual, the rocket exchange between the Palestinians and the Israelis is all about perspective.
The events appear to be initiated by the death of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Khader Adnan. He was on a hunger strike for 86 days. Adnan was arrested in Israel on terrorism charges. When it was announced he died, four rockets were launched from Gaza. Israel responded. Then the two sides exchanged volleys.
Isaiah 66:7-8 Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
See also Ezekiel 37 and the valley of the dry bones.
Israel celebrated its 75th anniversary of rebirth.
Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, & Beth Togarmah or modern day Turkey.
BREAKING: 🚨Turkey’s President, Erdogan has suffered a heart attack and is in critical condition in the hospital. Erdogan canceled campaign rallies for health reasons, ahead of presidential elections, and a day after he cut short an interview after appearing to be gaging. pic.twitter.com/clvbWnQBO0
— Hertfordshire Friends of Israel 🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@HertfordshireI) April 26, 2023
Yoğun mesaim sebebiyle yayın esnasında geçirdiğim küçük rahatsızlıktan ötürü geçmiş olsun dileklerini ileten, dualarını eksik etmeyen necip milletimin her bir ferdine, her bir kardeşime çok çok teşekkür ediyorum.…
As of Wednesday, May 3rd, President Erdogan was back on the campaign trail giving a speech. Recep even performed some singing to some hip music for his followers.
#BREAKING: Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, a onetime member of #Iran's Assembly of Experts, has been assassinated. Comes after a series of attacks targeting clerics. Soleimani is Khamenei's former representative in Kashan and notably Sistan and Baluchestan, the scene of many… pic.twitter.com/T2FfqGmXaB
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi flew to Damascus to meet Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Syria was widely shunned by Arab governments over Assad’s brutal crackdown on protesters and the breakdown in relations culminated with Syria being ousted from the Arab League in 2011. The conflict has since killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million. -Times of Israel
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi sign a memorandum of understanding for the comprehensive long-term strategic cooperation plan between the two countries.
Somebody flew a drone into the Kremlin. Nobody is claiming is responsibility. Zelensky in Ukraine is denying responsibility. Russia is stating this is a terrorist attack and an assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin.
Who are these people and why were they coming up the Kremlin roof right before the explosion? pic.twitter.com/qVoCJUZHwb
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023
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Isaiah 49:12 Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!
The sons of Sinim or modern day China.
👀 The Indo-Pacific Powder Keg:
– Chinese ship cuts off a Philippines patrol boat, nearly causing a collision – US HIMARS Rockets, Patriot Missiles, & SINKEX in the Philippines – Chinese aircraft carrier back in South China Sea – US nuclear subs to South Korea – Enter: Singapore pic.twitter.com/FPJaJUtZPe
Welcome to The Watchmen, just a couple of dudes sitting on the wall watching the world go by. Before we get started, we apologize beforehand. We experienced more difficulties than necessary to put this edition together. There may be a little bit of digital scramble and brief periods of challenges. Sorry in a advance.
That said, this broadcast is loaded with breaking news in real time on happenings in Israel, on the Temple Mount, and near the Golan Heights.
Exodus 29:38-42 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously. The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight…
Rockets and missiles were launched from southern Lebanon into Israel on Passover at approximately the ninth hour. Hamas appears to have taken responsibility.
Red Alert [06/04/2023]:
14:52: Manot, Avdon, Idmit, Eilon, Ya'ara
14:53: Avdon, Hanita, Manot, Arab al-Aramshe, Idmit, Eilon, Ya'ara
— Red Alerts – Cumta (@CumtaAlertsEng) April 6, 2023
For significance of the ninth hour and timing of the attack on Passover, click on the link below. Spoiler alert. This is the time of the evening sacrifice. This is the time Jesus would have given His last breath on the cross and died.
The United States Navy has sent a nuclear submarine, USS Florida, in the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal.
“It is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and is deployed to US 5th Fleet to help ensure regional maritime security and stability,” Commander Timothy Hawkins.
Questions are circulating around Israel. Will the United States support Israel? Can Israel trust the Biden Administration?
Isaiah 17:1 The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city and will become a fallen ruin.
Breaking news out of Israel… 3 rockets have been fired into Israel from Syria.
Ramadan, Easter, and Passover are on the same weekend. What could possibly go wrong on the Temple Mount? Muslims have locked themselves in the Al Aqsa Mosque.
“We call on Jordan, through the Waqf guards, to immediately remove from the Al-Aqsa Mosque these extremists who are planning to riot tomorrow during Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount and the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall.”
Netanyahu to postpone his judicial coup; in exchange he’ll establish new police force under Kahanist Ben Gvir’s direct command. Imagine if pro-democracy protestors pushed back against convicted terrorist Gvir leading armed private militia with one aim: terrorizing Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/aEIW6QybXX
As we have discussed in the past, Jordan will likely become cozy with Ezekiel’s gang and allow Russia and friends into the country to ultimately invade Israel. Are we watching the first steps of Jordan’s turn toward prophecy?
Revelation 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
Granted the above verse is from later in the tribulation and the bowl judgments. But, we are trending toward a date with destiny. Make way for the kings of the east. China is asserting itself big time in the Middle East! China is brokering “peace” between ancient rivals like Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran. China is ditching the US Dollar and utilizing their currency, the yuan.
Over The Last 2 Weeks:
1. Saudi Arabia considers accepting Chinese Yuan for oil sales
2. China and France complete first LNG trade using Yuan
3. Russia considers using Chinese Yuan as reserve currency
4. Saudi Arabia partners with China to build refinery for 83.7 billion…
Hosea 4:1-3 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of Australia's second-longest river. This is the third mass fish die-off in the area since 2018. pic.twitter.com/ZgFP5Uvxje
Luke 11:17 But He knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls. -Jesus
“I call on all the demonstrators in Jerusalem, from the right and from the left, to behave responsibly and not to act violently. We are brothers.” -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The issue of Judicial Reform is coming to a head in Israel. At the heart of the matter, does the Supreme Court of Israel have too much power? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some his supporters on the right say yes. There appears to be fractures on the right.
The opposition on the left says leave the status quo alone, no change. Reforms would damage democracy in Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided, this evening, to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Sunday, March 26, 2023: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires fellow Likud Party member and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. This happened one day after Gallant called for a pause in the judicial reform legislation.
“I see the source of our strength eroding. The growing rift in our society is penetrating the IDF and security agencies. This poses a clear, immediate, and tangible threat to the security of the state. I will not lend my hand to this. For the sake of Israel’s security, for the sake of our sons and daughters, the legislative process should be stopped now, to enable the nation of Israel to celebrate Passover and Independence Day together, and to mourn together on Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.” -Yoav Gallant
Monday, March 27, 2023: The following is from CNN Jerusalem. Israel’s largest trade union announced a strike closing transportation, universities, restaurants and retailers.
Israeli diplomats in embassies from Washington DC, London and Paris joined the strike as well.
As of this afternoon, Netanyahu agreed to stop reforms for now as protests continued in the hundreds of thousands across Israel. The judicial reform plan for this session of parliament has been postponed. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to table the issue.
“There is one other thing that characterizes the judiciary in Israel and that is that the judges veto the appointment of judges, they effectively select themselves and that doesn’t exist in any democracy. The reform that we’re dealing with right now corrects that.” -Prime Minister Netanyahu, Piers Morgan Uncensored
Israel's main labor union, the Histadrut, ends its strike after Netanyahu announces the postponement of legislation on controversial judicial reform @natasharaquel_ reports as Ben Gurion airport reopens: pic.twitter.com/C8KQ7dtRtQ
Israel is ripe for a political leader who will bring unity and healing.
1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
Daniel 8:23-25 “In the latter period of their rule, when the transgressors have run their course, a king will arise, insolent and skilled in intrigue. His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, and he will destroy to an extraordinary degree and prosper and perform his will; he will destroy mighty men and the holy people. And through his shrewdness he will cause deceit to succeed by his influence; and he will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many while they are at ease. He will even oppose the Prince of princes, but he will be broken without human agency”.
IF time is winding down and IF we are on the verge of His (Jesus) arrival, he (antichrist) is watching and he is scheming.
Esther 9:20-22 Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same month, annually, because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
The celebration is to take place in the Hebrew month of Adar on the 14th and 15th day. In the Gregorian year of 2023, the event starts on sundown Monday, March 6th and ends the next day on Tuesday, March 7th. Scripture tells us the holiday is to be celebrated annually.
Esther is a unique book in the Bible in that God’s name is not written or used. Even though God’s name is not seen, it is obvious Who is in control of the events of the narrative.
The spirit of Haman is alive and well in the ancient land the Bible calls Persia. We call it modern day Iran.
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl made news with a comment regarding Iran. He was speaking to a Congressional Committee. Kahl is the third ranking Defense Department official.
“Because Iran’s nuclear progress since we left the JCPOA has been remarkable. Back in 2018, when the previous administration decided to leave the JCPOA it would have taken Iran about 12 months to produce one bomb’s worth of fissile material. Now it would take about 12 days.“
Iran is becoming more than a regional threat. The Pentagon sees Iran as a global threat. The reason, Iran’s relationship with Russia.
“We are now at a point where Iranian threats are no longer specific to the Middle East, but a global challenge,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Dana Stroul.
“It is reasonable to expect that the tactics, techniques and procedures that the Iranians are learning and perfecting in Ukraine will one day come back to our partners in the Middle East, which is why we are increasing cooperation now, intelligence sharing, understanding these networks and increasing our collective defensive capabilities so that we are prepared to counter these threats in the region.“
“We know that the Iranians have already provided hundreds or armed drones to the Russians. We know that they’ve provided ammunition for artillery and for tanks, as well,” William Burns, Director, CIA.
As a pattern of history, things did not work out well for Haman and those hostile to God’s chosen people. And things will not work out well for modern day Iran and friends and their hostility towards Israel.
Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon that is formed against you will succeed; and you will condemn every tongue that accuses you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
Isaiah 40:15-17 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales; look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
