Shalom from Jerusalem,
How do we respond to the events in our world possibly having prophetic significance? Events such as: anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Jeremy Corbyn elected to lead the UK's Labour party; Pope Francis meeting US President Obama on Yom Kippur; the Pope speaking to the UN General Assembly [GA], saying he came in his own name (John 5:43); the flag of "Palestine" raised at the UN two days after the 4th red moon - the only 'blood' moon that appeared over Jerusalem; an Islamic immigration-jihad invasion of post-Christian Europe with most EU leaders paralyzed by their political correctness; Iran accepted by the global community, especially the EU, as the EU tries to boycott Israel; Russian and Iranian troops in Syria, just north of Israel's border; a floodtide of anti-Semitism and an increase of aliyah [Jews returning to Israel].
We live in the final days before Messiah's return. Yeshua has already told us how to respond: lift up our heads and watch and pray (Luke 21:28; Mark 13:33).
An unbiblical view of God…
leads to deception about who God is, what He is doing and what He is about to do. At a time like this, as nations come against Jerusalem, but Jews increasingly return to Israel; as deception grows in the Church and violence permeates societies as in Noah's day; as immorality smothers believers and non-believers, and Islam acts upon its threats against all that is holy, it is crucial for followers of the Lamb of God to know this God and His nature - as He has chosen to reveal Himself in His Word.
An unbiblical view often emphasizes one aspect of His nature while de-emphasizing others. Is He a God of love? He also is a Man of War (Ex. 15:3; Psa. 24:8; Isa. 42:13; Rev. 19:11). Is He a God who forgives? He is also the Judge of all the earth (Gen. 18:25; Rev. 20:12). An incomplete view of the biblical God blinds believers to some of His work today as coming from His hand.
The vilest fruit of replacement/fulfillment theory is just this - the proclamation of an unbiblical God, with an accompanying blindness to His current works. If Israel is no longer essential or central to biblical theology, then why bother with the rediscovery of our Hebraic roots, the land of Israel, aliyah and the IDF, threats from Islam to destroy the Jews and Yeshua's return to Jerusalem, and so much more?
The divine ointment for healing this spiritual blindness is to accept all of His Word as it truly is - the Word of the Living God! Instead of us judging God's Word, His Word must judge us. Study the Word, but approach it with a fear of His absolute purity, so that even if we do not fully grasp what is written, it still remains in our spirits and minds as God's Word, awaiting His illumination.
Bibi at the UN - 'The Sounds of Silence'
In Sept., Prime Minister [PM] Bibi Netanyahu gave a speech to the UN GA's annual meeting, charging its members with hypocrisy in their treatment of Israel and with failure to contain extremism
in the Middle East [ME], assailing it for passing more resolutions against Israel for its handling of the Palestinians last year
than against Syria's regime which has murdered over 300,000 people. This was the day after a Palestinian flag was hoisted at the UN, and Bibi confronted the nations for encouraging Palestinian rejectionism
instead of encouraging direct negotiations with Israel.
Yet the most dramatic moment was when Bibi asked the UN if it had forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust
? Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran's rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people. And the response from this body … from nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.
Then he silently glared at the assembled delegates for 44 long seconds. No one spoke or moved. Finally, to applause, Bibi said, I refuse to be silent…The days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over.
He warned the UN that the Iranian nuclear deal increases the likelihood of war, as investors flood a radical theocracy with weapons and cash…
Acknowledging it as a done deal, he urged the UN to enforce it better than the previous six Security Council [SC] resolutions on Iran's nuclear program which Iran had systematically violated.
Whether on Iran, or the Palestinian issue, Bibi's overall message was this: Israel is a democracy, with values consistent with the liberal tenets of the UN's founding charter.
So UN members need to stand with Israel because Israel is not just defending itself… Israel is defending you.
("In fiery speech, Netanyahu challenges UN on moral grounds," Michael Wilner, JP Op-ed, 1 Oct. 2015)
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz wrote, Like a biblical prophet, Netanyahu had come to warn, to chastise, to indict… What was most strikingly different this year was the prominence … he gave to his assault on the international community's failed outlook, self-defeatingly skewed priorities, and mistreatment of Israel…He pleaded for the UN to end its decades of 'obsessive' Israel bashing. He sounded like a man of convictions; he did not sound like a man expecting to be heeded…
After a year in which the Iran deal was concluded over all his loud objections, the Syrian civil war rages bloodily on, Islamic State [IS] continues its campaign of killing, and the ME remains predictable only in its chronic instability, Netanyahu is only too aware of how isolated he is.
("Netanyahu silently indicts the world," D. Horovitz, TOI Op-ed, 1 Oct. 2015)
Abbas vs. peace
At the UN, Bibi affirmed his desire for a permanent peace with a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes [Israel as] the Jewish state.
Yet since Palestinian Authority [PA] President Abbas had said the day before, that they no longer regard themselves as bound by the Oslo accords and other agreements with Israel,
this goal has moved even further away. And for that we thank God. ("Netanyahu silently indicts the world," D. Horovitz, TOI Op-ed, 1 Oct. 2015)
Referring to Jerusalem's Temple Mount riots in Sept., Abbas had said, Al-Aksa [all of the Temple Mount] is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. [The Jews] have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet…There will be no Palestinian state without Jerusalem.
("Abbas Issues Fiery Statement amidst Tensions in Jerusalem," ICEJ News, 17 Sept. 2015)
Dror Eydar wrote that Abbas' UN speech typified the Arab view of ME history, in which they are innocent lambs, responsible for nothing. They never rejected any peace proposals. In their eyes, the Jews came out of nowhere and destroyed a prosperous, democratic, righteous, culturally advanced state that supposedly existed peacefully here from
creation until 1948.
After listing Israel's crimes,
Abbas said that the Jewish people are an occupying power
in Jerusalem. To this Eydar replies, We are an
("Abbas, call us when you're serious," D. Eydar, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 1 Oct. 2015)occupying power
in the place that is the center of our being? …What would Jerusalem be without the Jews?
Arabic voices against a "Palestine"
Palestinian Bassam Tawil is very worried about what will happen to his people if a UN-backed unilateral peace agreement
succeeds, as it will lead to an IS and Hamas takeover of every inch of Palestinian soil from which Israel withdraws…
The ME is exploding, Arab states are disintegrating. There is no logical reason
to birth another unstable
state. Western intelligence services know that the secret of the PA's existence,
is its security cooperation with Israel. If a Palestine is declared unilaterally,
Israel would stop cooperating and the new state will fall prey to Islamist extremists…
And while the UN passes resolutions against Israel, it ignores floggings in Saudi Arabia, slavery in Mauritania; escalating executions, calls for genocide and violations of nuclear treaties in Iran…The situation is grotesque.
They accuse Israel of 'terrorism' for defending itself against rockets fired from Hamas,
in which Gazan children are hurt because Hamas used them as human shields,
yet they ignore real terrorism against Africans committed by the UN's own peacekeepers, Boko Haram, Iran and Sudan…
Tawil sees this as the fruit of a Western surrender to Islamic terrorism…
("Behind the French 'Peace Initiative'," B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 26 June 2015)
Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian-Palestinian, writes, Since 1948, we Arabs have been taught that all we need to do is to get rid of the Jewish state, and everything else will go well after that… [We] have put 70 years of our existence on hold while waiting for that
glorious day
when we defeat Israel…
Arabs have allowed dictators to impoverish, terrorize, oppress and destroy us all in the name of
The result: the great Arab struggle to end the Zionist entity
.While Israel made 10 new breakthroughs in cancer and cardiac treatments in the last two years alone, we Arabs developed new execution methods.
Seventy years wasted. It is time to think of the future, and whether Israel's 'disappearance' should be our ultimate wish.
He fears the future, as not only Arabs but also Western anti-Semitic forces want Israel destroyed. And what would happen if Israel disappeared? First, Israel is the only reason Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons… [because] it learned a lesson from the experience of Saddam's Osirak reactor, which Israeli jets reduced to rubble in 1981.
Iran now controls a third of Iraq and its resources through a pro-Iranian regime.
With Israel gone, Iran could extend its influence into Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain,
and then bring the world to its knees by reducing oil production.
If 'Palestine' replaced Israel, Palestinians would end up with another Arab dictatorship that oppresses them and reduces them to poverty.
He regularly visits areas under the PA and interviews many Palestinians. He confirms that, as much as they hate Israel, they still openly yearn for the days when it administered the West Bank.
As one told him, We prayed to Allah to give us mercy and rid us of Israel; later, we found out that Allah had given us mercy when Israel was here.
("If Israel disappears, others will too," M. Zahran, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 9 July 2015)
Iran: a deal with death and the grave (Isa. 28:15)
In mid-July, the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany agreed to allow Iran to legally become a nuclear threshold state, and to give it about $150 billion, fueling its global terrorism, its ME aggression, and its efforts to destroy Israel.
Surrendering totally, this group did not even ask Iran to halt its aggressive behavior in any way,
yet as they signed it, Iran's moderate
president was at a rally in Tehran, with US and Israeli flags being burned, and Death to America, Death to Israel!
being chanted.
Netanyahu: By not dismantling Iran's nuclear program, in a decade this deal will give an unreformed, unrepentant, far richer terrorist regime the capacity to produce…an entire nuclear arsenal with the means to deliver it. What a stunning historic mistake!
("Full text of [Bibi's] response to nuke deal: It will fuel Iran's efforts to destroy Israel," TOI, 14 July 2015)
Harvard scholar Ruth Wisse noted, This is the first time the US will have deliberately entered into a pact with a country [Iran] committed to annihilating another people [Israel] - a pact that doesn't even require formal repudiation of the country's genocidal aims.
("The Democratic challenge: Nat'l interests vs. politics on the Iran deal," Eric Mandel, JP Op-ed, 3 Aug. 2015)
Mere days after signing, Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, at Jerusalem day rallies
, asked Allah to hear the Death to Israel,
Death to America
'prayers' of his people. He also rebuked the arrogant US government,
for supporting the terrorist, child-killing Zionist regime.
("Iran's Khamenei hails his people for demanding death to America & Israel," TOI, 18 July 2015)
In op-eds in Italian and German newspapers, Knesset Member Yair Lapid derided Europe, saying Iran has a deplorable human rights record,
sanctions Holocaust denial, and threatens to destroy Israel. Under normal circumstances, countries like Germany and Italy would boycott Iran. Instead, the international community threatens to boycott Israel, while lifting the sanctions imposed on Iran. Has the world gone mad?
("Preferring Iran over Israel? Has the world gone mad?" Israel Hayom, 9 Aug. 2015)
This deal is much worse
than the 1938 Munich Agreement. Hitler duped Chamberlain and presented himself as a man of peace. No one has duped Obama.
("Iran Deal Will Trigger Major War in ME," N. G. Ali Pour, Gatestone Institute, 24 Aug. 2015)
Iranian leaders against Israel
A top Iranian foreign affairs adviser affirmed that Iran had specifically told the world powers during nuclear negotiations
that it rejects the existence of any Israeli on this earth.
("'Israel should be annihilated,' senior Iran aide says," TOI, 25 Aug. 2015)
Iranian leader Khamenei's new book, Palestine, says, Israel has no right to exist as a state,
yet the goal of Israel's destruction is not based on anti-Semitism,
which he sees as a European issue, but is based on Islamic principles,
such as any land once under Muslim rule…can never again be ceded to non-Muslims …
Israel is also a unique enemy
, as it is an ally of the American Great Satan,
as well as being a hostile infidel,
as it has warred on Muslims several times. Finally, it occupies Jerusalem…
He does not recommend classical
warfare against Israel, but low-intensity warfare,
making life impossible for a majority of Israeli Jews so that they leave the country.
("The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel & Palestine," A. Taheri, Gatestone Institute, 31 July 2015)
At this year's UN GA meeting, Iran's moderate
President Rouhani imparted this wisdom
: We must not forget that the roots of today's wars, destruction and terror, can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday. If we did not have the US military invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the US' unwarranted support for the inhumane actions of the Zionist regime against the oppressed nation of Palestine, today the terrorists would not have an excuse for the justification of their crimes.
But now they do? ("US support for Israel stokes terrorism worldwide, Rouhani says," JP, 28 Sept. 2015)
"These Jews exceedingly trouble our city." (Acts 16:20)
To defend their Iranian deal, Obama and US Secretary of State Kerry questioned the loyalty of Jewish American critics. Good could come of this, i.e. aliyah, if US Jews see that they are being scapegoated once again by the gentiles, as in Egypt (Ex. 1:9-11); Persia (Est. 3:8-11); Europe (the Black Plague, deicide); England (blood libels); and the Arabs for all that is bad in their lives. Obama and Kerry claimed Israel was the only nation to resist this deal (an outright lie), and if the deal was rejected, they said Tel Aviv would be hit with missiles (yet as the deal is now approved, Tel Aviv could be hit with a nuke), that there would be war and US soldiers would die because of Israel. They insinuated that US Jews have divided loyalty, caring more for Israel's interests than America's. If a Congressman rejected - or supported - this deal, and was Jewish, it was a media headline. A word to the wise: Jews are being treated like this; Christians are next (Rom. 2:9-10).
Kerry even said that if Congress votes against the Iranian deal, our friends in Israel could actually wind up being more isolated, and more blamed,
and then warned that any Israeli military action against Iran
would be an enormous mistake.
("Oren: Kerry 'threats' won't deter Israel from opposing nuke deal," TOI, 24 July 2015)
A JP editorial retorted, Iran is run by fundamentalist, apocalyptic mullahs who have no qualms about using violence to promote their expansionist designs throughout the ME.
They oppress their own people, hang gays, persecute religious minorities and jail journalists. Even Obama admits Iran is anti-Semitic and promotes terrorism
globally, with its leaders calling for Amercia and Israel's annihilation. Yet Kerry threatens Israel for daring to try to protect itself from
this existential threat. Apparently, he views Israel, not Iran, is the big threat to ME stability.
("Blaming the victim," JP Op-ed, 26 July 2015)
March 2013. Jerusalem. Obama tells Israelis that America has their back
against threats from Iran and any others wanting to annihilate Israel, even saying in Hebrew, You are not alone.
Aug. 2015. Washington, DC. Obama says that since Israel opposes the Iran deal, it now stands alone. Because this is such a strong deal, every nation in the world that has commented publicly, with the exception of the Israeli government, has expressed support…The UNSC has unanimously supported it. A majority of arms control and nonproliferation experts support it.
The key word in that statement is publicly
. Though aired via discreet diplomatic channels, the Arab Gulf States' apprehension over the nuclear deal is the ME's worst-kept secret.
He did say that Israel's opposition was understandable,
as one cannot blame them for having a deep skepticism about any dealings with
the Iranian regime. Yet, he still believes this deal is in America's and Israel's interests, and as president of the US it would be an abrogation of my constitutional duty to act against my best judgment simply because it causes temporary friction with a dear friend and ally.
In other words, there is no rational reason to fight it, other than an exaggerated, possibly even problematic, allegiance to Israel.
("Obama's unmistakable message to Israel: You stand alone," Raphael Ahren, TOI Analysis, 6 Aug. 2015)
Arab voices against
Jordanian-Palestinian politician Mudar Zahran says, I and many other Arab politicians and decision-makers have come to learn that Israel is vital for our own existence…Israel has saved us, and the world, from two global disasters.
First, Israel's 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraqi nuclear reactor, which stopped Iraq from having a nuclear bomb to use against the West in the 1st Gulf War.
Also, Syria's Assad's secret nuclear program
built with North Korean help which Israel destroyed in 2007. Four years later, civil war erupts. Syria is swiftly turned into an Islamist stronghold,
with both Assad and his enemies butchering civilians. Assad has used chemical weapons, so why would he have been reluctant to threaten the world with nuclear weapons
if he had them?
Now, there is a deal with Iran. While this could be viewed as acceptable and fair to all, they just do not understand what Israel understands…: Not only is Iran ruled by Shi'ite Islamist radicals who will not keep their word, but if Iran gets the bomb, it will be the only nuclear power that would not fear the consequences of launching a nuclear attack on any country, even the US. If…that country responds in kind, Iran could not care less; its leaders want to die as martyrs, go to heaven, and meet the virgins.
Actually, collective martyrdom
of all Iranians might be exactly what Iran's mullah leaders
want, in order to trigger the return after a global disaster
of the Shi'ite Messiah, al-Mahdi.
Will Israel save the world a third time, possibly by destroying Iran's nuclear program?
No one knows, yet if it does not and Iran threatens nuclear ruin on the world, those demonizing Israel, boycotting it and labeling it as an evil state today will wish they had supported it instead.
("Will Israel save the world a third time?" M. Zahran, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 21 July 2015)
Unbelievably, since the parties to the agreement are required to help Iran protect its nuclear facilities,
against any attack or sabotage attempts, this raises the chilling prospect of America's army defending Iran against the IDF! ("Nuclear Iran: Is the U.S. Really Suicidal?" B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 27 July 2015)
A columnist for Kuwait's government-affiliated Arabic paper Al-Watan, called on Gulf States to sever ties with Iran and form an alliance with Israel, even a military alliance.
He said the real enemy is the fascist Persian regime,
and that if it got nukes, it will not hesitate to use it against the Gulf Arab states, while
("US Jews concerned over anti-Semitic rhetoric from White House," Israel Hayom, 14 Aug. 2015)never in the course of [the Arab-Israeli conflict] did Israel think to use its nuclear weapons against its Arab enemies
.
After the deal
Official media reports from Iran since the close of this deal have a recurring refrain: A profound sense of victory…
Iran views this as cementing its status as a superpower that managed to bend the international community to its will.
("Tehran celebrates nuclear deal: World powers surrendered to Iran," Israel Hayom, 6 Sept. 2015)
Since the US Congress did not defeat this agreement, here are a few responses, as the world will sooner or later face the reality of a fundamentalist Shiite nuclear bomb.
Elliot Abrams said that criticism against Bibi for standing up to an American president
and losing is wrong. Because he has always seen this as existential for Israel,
how could he not try to change the political calculus in the US?
Should he have said less, and not really tried to win the argument?
Actually he did win, as most Americans and most Congressmen are highly skeptical of the Iran deal and don't like it…
Most importantly, he taught a valuable lesson for the future: an Israeli PM who is convinced of his position may take on such a fight even if everyone predicts he will lose it. He or she will not shy away due to political calculations and vote-counting predictions, a very good precedent when matters of national security are at risk…
("Netanyahu & AIPAC: Right to Fight," E. Abrams, The Weekly Standard, 3 Sept. 2015)
In his UN address, Bibi said regarding the Iran deal, It's not easy to oppose something that is embraced by the greatest powers in the world…it would be far easier to remain silent.
Yet history has taught the Jewish people the heavy price of silence.
Israel will continue to speak, and act as needed. Israel will not allow Iran to break-in, to sneak-in or to walk-in to the nuclear weapons club
and no one should question Israel's determination to defend itself against those who seek our destruction.
He put all this in a historical context. In every generation, there were those who rose up to destroy our people,
listing the ancient empires of Babylon and Rome, the Inquisition and expulsions, the pogroms and the Holocaust.
Now another regime has arisen, swearing to destroy Israel.
Yet Iran should consider that, I stand here today representing Israel, a country 67 years young, but the nation-state of a people nearly 4,000 years old.
Yet the Babylonian and Roman empires are no longer in existence, and neither is the Nazi 3rd Reich. But Israel lives. The people of Israel live…
To Iran's rulers, he declared, Your plan to destroy Israel will fail.
And to the rest of the nations, he said, Whatever resolutions you may adopt in this building, whatever decisions you may take in your capitals, Israel will do whatever it must do to defend our state and to defend our people.
("Israel will not permit any force on earth to threaten its future," BFP Israel Prayer Update, 2 Oct. 2015)
Prophetic battles on the horizon
Israeli Deputy PM Silvan Shalom related a frank conversation
he had with a senior British minister who said,
Shalom: I am a friend of Israel, but as a friend…
and then she started criticizing us for settlement building
.I told her,
in international forums, yet if You ignore our concerns about Iran, you ignore all Palestinian terrorist attacks, you ignore the fact that Palestinians are breaching every treaty they signed with us by taking unilateral steps
someone extends a balcony, or we announce 300 new homes in Bet El,
you criticize your 'good friend' Israel. It's as if there is no Iran, there is no Al Qaeda, no ISIS, no Hamas, no Hezbollah, no Islamic Jihad - only Israel is responsible for all the problems in the ME!
("Dept. PM: West Doesn't Realize Iran is a Threat to Them as Well," Arutz 7, 31 July 2015)
On Sept. 10th, Bibi harshly criticized the EU Parliament after it endorsed the labeling of Israeli settlement products. He called it a distortion of justice and logic
which does not advance peace. The root of the conflict is not the territories
nor the settlements, but the Palestinians' rejection of Israel's existence regardless
of what its borders may be. He also said that Jews remember what happened when Europe labeled Jewish products,
in the 1930s. ("PM: We remember what happened when Europe labeled Jewish products," Israel Hayom, 11 Sept. 2015)
The Islamic Invasion of Europe
Quick quiz: What is the main export of Arab nations to the West today? Answer: immigrants and refugees
There could be a good side to this if it stirs up Europe's Jews to see that while today is bearable, tomorrow holds no guarantees.
This could result in a major increase in aliyah, which is what we are praying for. ("The Arab Spring & Europe's fall," Shahaf Mezin, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 3 Sept. 2015)
A French politician, apparently in jest, said Europe got rid of 6 million Jews and has now received 6 million Muslims. According to Scripture, this could be (Gen. 12:3a; Gal 6:7).
Jack Engelhard reports that a Saudi government official said, We are deliberately ignoring the issue as a strategic maneuver. If these refugees…settle in the West, they will take with them the beacon of light that is Islam.
Has this invasion by immigration jihad been the plan all along? IS and other Muslim terrorists have forced millions to vacate one continent in order to subsume another continent.
And most 'refugees' are men of military age.
Where are the 57 countries that make up the world's Islamic constituency?
Of course! They too are deliberately ignoring the issue
to bring Islam into our lives. ("Syrian Refugees, How Lucky They Aren't Jews," J. Engelhard, Arutz 7 Op-ed, 8 Sept. 2015)
Zalmi Unsdorfer wonders if Europe has been cursed. …I see divine intervention in all things and have learned that the G-d of Israel seeks His vengeance…This principle was used to drown Pharaoh Ramses and his charioteers as the lex talionis [eye-for-an-eye law] for ordering the drowning of every Jewish firstborn. There are many other examples throughout scripture and our very laws are built on proportional punishment…
Another spiritual law is that God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse them (Gen. 12:3). The EU has been at the forefront of anti-Israel activism, supporting declarations of unilateral Palestinian statehood on sovereign Jewish land. Europe's academia and trades unions
back the global anti-Israel boycott movement, trying to delegitimize Israel as a sovereign Jewish state and to destroy her economy with sanctions and discriminatory labelling of her exports.
How does the God of the Exodus judge a nation that denies the legitimacy of His people's borders?
He makes a mockery of its borders. And how would this God judge a nation that seeks to destroy the economy of His people's state?
He makes a mockery of their economy. ("Has Europe Been Cursed?" Z. Unsdorfer, Arutz 7 Blogs, Zion's Corner, 17 Sept. 2015)
Israel's Rock = God's Word
At the Sept. meeting of the Tanach Study Circle, Netanyahu told those present that along with the land of Israel, the Bible is the fundamental reason why the Jewish state exists today… [The] Bible is the rock of our existence.
It deserves to be carefully and regularly studied, which he does every Shabbat.
It is important to him that Israeli children read the Tanach [as it grounds] their knowledge of our culture and our heritage, which are the story of faith, history and morality between man and man and between man and G-d.
This same morality is for all humanity,
but Bibi sees a trend among the nations
against this. One of the clearest signs of the world's rebellion against God's Word,
is the global trend that denies our rights and our link to this land and indeed to life.
Will Israel survive? There is no doubt.
Yet referring to the book of Joshua, he said Israel understands that those who want to destroy us must be fought…
His unspoken conclusion was obvious: Iran's drumbeat of threats to annihilate Israel
makes it an enemy state. Based on lessons from God's Word, Bibi is preparing Israel to fight for its life.
("Netanyahu: The Bible Is the Rock on Which Israel Stands," BFP News Update, 7 Sept. 2015)
Forever, YHWH, Your Word is settled in the heavens.
Psa. 119:89
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