Only Trust Him - Commentary by Sandra Lloyd

 Reblogged from servehiminthewaiting.com

I’ve been hard-pressed, this week, to dip into the polluted stream of “news” and come up with much of anything that seemed worth featuring here.  Obviously, the most significant thing that happened this week, was when the esteemed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the world from the congressional chamber, with such eloquence.
Putting aside the crucial nature of the topic he addressed, I was struck most deeply in my heart and in my spirit, with the way that it felt, as a citizen of America, to once again witness a man of integrity standing in that relatively hallowed spot, addressing we-the-people, and make no mistake, that is whom Bibi came here to address.

From day-to-day and week to week, people like myself are documenting the decline and demise of this nation as we previously have known it.  God likes an established record, it seems, not for His own sake, for His mind keeps track without having to mark things down, but for “the record” which He will show back to the guilty.  Sometimes we wonder when we know that we have been treated unjustly, why God allows it.  I believe that is why. 

The scriptures say that God is angry with the wicked every day, and that evil-doers store up wrath against themselves.  Every good investigator or lawyer knows that to have an airtight case, you have to collect evidence.  I really think that sometimes when God looks down here and sees just how wicked some are, that He will allow His own to suffer for the sake of eventually giving those the maximum sentence, so to speak, as He was doing when He allowed Satan to “test” Job.  Satan smirked, I’m sure, in his arrogance, somehow believing he had actually duped God into letting him torment that righteous man, when all he really accomplished was to store up a greater measure of condemnation against himself.

There has been much praise for Mr. Netanyahu’s bearing as he made this historic address, much analysis of his command and presence, his oratorical skill, and such.  But there was something much deeper and more solemn at work that morning. I will never forget Charles Krauthammer’s observation that it was the “first standing-O Queen Esther will have gotten in over two thousand years”.

It’s dangerous assigning hero status to mere mortals, but I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu may come pretty close, when all of history is established and weighed in the Sovereign scales of God Almighty, as a leader of the Jewish people, who will be numbered among those who, if not worshipfully, then at least respectfully regarded Abraham’s God.  He is no anointed king, but most certainly it was ordained by God that he is in the position he is in “for just such a time as this”.

There comes a moment in every unfolding conflict, when astute witnesses fully recognize and acknowledge the gravity of what they are watching take place.  In a world where even most ordained ministers are failing to heed or address what is at stake and “in play” in this existential chess match in the Middle East, Netanyahu acted in the same initiative common to the brand of man along the lines of which include Joshua, and Moses.  You see, while most pundits made comparisons to figures such as Reagan and Churchill, I believe what Bibi did that day, surpasses the examples of those other great men, by virtue of the fact that Mr. Netanyahu has been entrusted with the wellbeing of the one nation which is the very “Apple of God’s Eye”, and unlike most leaders, he seems to fully appreciate the “sacred trust” aspects of the honor and privilege he has been given.  This is significant far beyond the scope of Western interests.

Benjamin Netanyahu is always kind and generous in his acknowledgement of Barack Obama, and in so being, he proves the scriptural truth of heaping hot coals upon Mr. Obama’s head, in repaying kindness for evil. In contrast, Obama looks every bit the epitome of the indulged and ruined child that he is.  Obama is the Frankenstein who emerged from the laboratory of  humanism which is nothing other than blatant delusional rebellion against unquestionable, inevitable Sovereign Authority.

Netanyahu is prepared for Israel to stand alone, but Israel will never stand alone. Netanyahu and the IDF stand ready to defend Israel to the death, and don’t think that just because Netanyahu no longer wears the IDF uniform, that he sits safely removed from that particular risk himself.

It strikes me that this was Netanyahu’s third address from the congressional podium.  There is a scriptural standard of establishing a matter by two or three witnesses.  And “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets”.  (Amos 3:7) It’s not that Netanyahu’s address itself is prophetic, but that it falls into lock-step with what the scripture has already proclaimed.  So, setting aside the accolades, criticisms, and analysis of the various media, yes this was an historical event, but much more so and on a different level than most of them realize.

I think it may just have been a heavenly bugle call of sorts.  Marking a moment in time when a pre-ordained and long-anticipated conflict truly commenced.  The literal beginning of the ultimate end of an age dividing time in much the same way that only a  profoundly life-altering event can do, into clearly delineated “before” and “after”.

Christian, stagger not at the promises of God in the days ahead.  Whatever your work is for the Lord, do it, but remember that it is not your works which reckon you righteous, but your faith.  Don’t make the mistake of mentally tying your security to your “job performance” as Satan will work to drain your joy and break your spirit and we cannot afford to falter in so late an hour.  The strategy of the enemy depends upon distraction, discouragement, disappointment, and disillusionment. 

If you are still wasting time and energy in diversionary skirmishes thrown into your path like supernatural tire spikes, you have not entered into your rest which comes from abiding in the yoke with Christ.  False yokes are generated in myriad ways, even inside the church.  

Our God has already won this war.  Just keep sowing, watering, cultivating, call out the enemy’s deceptions for what they are, speak to the obstacles and tell them “be thou removed” and keep on walking, though the Earth shake, though the stars begin to fall, only trust Him.    Fear only the Lord, and you to whom Salvation is given, will have nothing to fear.  To God be all Glory!
 


Come, every soul
by sin oppressed,
there’s mercy with the Lord;
and he will surely give you rest,
by trusting in his Word.

Only trust him, only trust him,
only trust him now.
He will save you, he will save you,
he will save you now.
For Jesus shed his precious blood
rich blessings to bestow;
plunge now into the crimson flood
that washes bright as snow.
(Refrain)

Yes, Jesus is the truth the way
that leads you into rest;
believe in him without delay,
and you are fully blest.

(Refrain)
Come then and join this holy band,
and on to glory go,
to dwell in that celestial land
where joys immortal flow.
(Refrain)
John H. Stockholm

J.D. Farag - Mid-East Update

"Atomic Iran" foretold Netanyahu´s warning

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WASHINGTON – Ten years ago, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., published his first WND bestselling book, “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians,” in which he predicted events unfolding now. 

 “In 2005, when publishers for whom I had written top-selling books turned down my proposal to write a book warning of the dangers Iran’s nuclear program posed, only Joseph Farah and WND had the foresight and courage to publish a book considered at the time to be enormously controversial,” Corsi said.

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“Few people 10 years ago wanted to believe Iran’s nuclear program could be a threat not only to Israel, but to the region and the world.” In “Atomic Iran,” Corsi predicted the following:

• Iran would game all nuclear negotiations to gain time, while secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program, calculating Iranian negotiators were sufficiently skillful to fool the Western nations, including the United States and the United Nations’ International Atomic Agency into believing the lie that the advanced enrichment of uranium was for peaceful purposes that could be monitored successfully amid an agreed-upon schedule of IAEA sanctions.
• Then-Sen. John F. Kerry would lead Democratic Party politicians lured by campaign contributions to enter into a “grand bargain” negotiated with Iran, similar to the nuclear-fuel-for-peaceful-purposes gambit North Korea induced President Jimmy Carter to enter. Corsi predicted the same result, that like North Korea, Iran would utilize all negotiated concessions to advance its clandestine nuclear weapons program.
• Ultimately, the United States would abandon Israel, leaving the Jewish state no alternative but to launch a military attack on Iran’s nuclear program. The Iranian nuclear program would bring nuclear war to the Middle East, either because Iran would develop and use a nuclear weapon against Israel, or because Israel in defending itself would trigger a regional war escalating into a nuclear conflict with nuclear-armed defenders of Iran, including Russia.

“I hope and pray my prediction on nuclear war is wrong,” Corsi said. “But my other predictions have played out over the last 10 years with a degree of accuracy that frightens me.”
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Corsi noted that 10 years ago, there was no thought Kerry would one day be secretary of state.
“But I was right, down to naming Iranian-American Hassan Nemazee as an agent of the mullahs who served in campaign finance positions both for Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 and for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and is today in federal prison for having violated federal banking laws.”

Corsi said Netanyahu is correct, that despite the Obama administration’s resolve that the cornerstone of its foreign policy would be a negotiated solution to Iran’s nuclear program, Kerry is no closer to such a deal today than the administration was when Obama took office in 2009.
Corsi pointed out many passages from “Atomic Iran” mirrored points Netanyahu made in his historic speech to Congress Tuesday morning.
“The mullahs [in Iran] have pursued nuclear weapons clandestinely with a clear intent to ignore their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and deceive the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency,” Corsi wrote on page 26. “Iran continues to display the characteristics of a rogue regime actively pursuing nuclear weapons, willing to both defy and deceive attempts at international control. Clearly stated, Iran has been playing the world for a fool.”

Netanyahu said: “The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said again yesterday that Iran still refuses to come clean about its military nuclear program. Iran was also caught – caught twice, not once, twice – operating secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom, facilities that inspectors didn’t even know existed.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress March 3.

He continued: “Right now, Iran could be hiding nuclear facilities that we don’t know about, the U.S. and Israel. As the former head of inspections for the IAEA said in 2013, he said, ‘If there’s no undeclared installation today in Iran, it will be the first time in 20 years that it doesn’t have one.’”
Netanyahu emphasized Iran “has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted.”
Corsi wrote of Hitler in describing the hatred the radical Islamic mullahs and their sympathizers in Iran have toward the Jews.
“Hitler revealed in ‘Mein Kampf’ that he intended to commit genocide on the Jews of Germany,” Corsi wrote on pages 40-41. “Many did not take him seriously; the thought was simply too extreme, too mad. Yet he communicated his true intentions, even if only those who knew how to listen to disturbed personalities believed him at the time.
“So, too, the mad mullahs who rule Iran have been clearly telling the world that they intend to use their missiles, and when they have them, their nuclear weapons,” Corsi continued.
“Iran’s President Muhammad Khatami speaks in radical terms. ‘Haven’t the Jews and Christians achieved their progress by means of toughness and repression?’ he asks. Take him seriously, for he has a strategy drawn to destroy Jewish and Christian civilization, regardless how fourteenth century the whole discussion seems. ‘Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from the Leader Ali Khamenei, we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations.’”
Similarly, Nethanyahu pointed to the statements of Hezbollah’s leader in Lebanon.
“For those who believe that Iran threatens the Jewish state, but not the Jewish people, listen to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, Iran’s chief terrorist proxy,” Netanyahu warned. “He said: If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of chasing them down around the world.”
But Iran’s regime, he said, is “not merely a Jewish problem, any more than the Nazi regime was merely a Jewish problem.”

“The 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were but a fraction of the 60 million people killed in World War II. So, too, Iran’s regime poses a grave threat, not only to Israel, but also the peace of the entire world. To understand just how dangerous Iran would be with nuclear weapons, we must fully understand the nature of the regime.”


Netanyahu also showed understanding of the oppression the Iranian people have suffered.
“The people of Iran are very talented people,” Netanyahu distinguished. “They’re heirs to one of the world’s great civilizations. But in 1979, they were hijacked by religious zealots – religious zealots who imposed on them immediately a dark and brutal dictatorship.
“That year, the zealots drafted a constitution, a new one for Iran,” Netanyahu continued. “It directed the revolutionary guards not only to protect Iran’s borders, but also to fulfill the ideological mission of jihad. The regime’s founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, exhorted his followers to ‘export the revolution throughout the world.’

“I’m standing here in Washington, D.C., and the difference is so stark,” Netanyahu concluded. “America’s founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran’s founding document pledges death, tyranny and the pursuit of jihad. And as states are collapsing across the Middle East, Iran is charging into the void to do just that.”
Corsi and Netanyahu both invoked the theme “never again” in describing Israel’s resolve to defend itself.

“Israel has sworn ‘Never Again!’ Corsi wrote on page 218. “Reasoning that the Holocaust occurred in part because European Jews did not resist, the Israelis have determined that never again will Israel be passive in the face of its enemies.
“Since the 1940s, first strikes have characterized Israel’s foreign policy,” Corsi continued. “The highly effective Israeli first-strike air assault on June 5, 1967, destroyed the entire Egyptian air force on the ground at the start of the Six-Day War. But more parallel to the urgency surrounding the situation of Iran’s having nuclear weapons is the June 1981 air attack that took out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.”

Speaking to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the House gallery Tuesday, Netanyahu said, “Elie, your life and work inspires to give meaning to the words, ‘never again.’
“And I wish I could promise you, Elie, that the lessons of history have been learned. I can only urge the leaders of the world not to repeat the mistakes of the past,” he continued. “Not to sacrifice the future for the present; not to ignore aggression in the hopes of gaining an illusory peace.
“But I can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over,” he asserted.
“We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.

“That is why, as prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing,” he stressed. “Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand.”
Corsi warned against making deals with Iran, writing on page 83, “There is ample proof that the mullahs are not to be trusted, no matter how many times they give their word.”
Netanyahu was equally skeptical.

Just as Corsi concluded in his book, Netanyahu declared restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program should not be lifted unless Tehran stops its threats to annihilate the Jewish state, its aggression against its neighbors in the Middle East and its support of terrorism around the world.

Bibi Netanyahu - 2015 Congress Speech

ROB BELL SAYS “THE CHURCH” IS ONLY MOMENTS AWAY FROM ACCEPTING “GAY MARRIAGE”

Reblogged from www.wayoflife.org

 (Friday Church News Notes, February 20, 2015, , fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143 FREE) - 

Rob Bell, former pastor of the emerging Mars Hill Bible Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, said recently about “gay marriage” that “we think it’s inevitable and we are moments away from the church accepting it” (“Former Megachurch Pastor Rob Bell,” Christian Post, Feb. 17, 2015). Bell made the comment when he and his wife Kristen appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday television program to discuss their new book The ZimZum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage. 

Having rejected the Bible as the infallible Word of God, the Bells have lurched from one heresy to another. Their final authority is their own thinking and the pop culture of which they have deeply partaken in their zeal to be “relevant.” Bell said, “I think culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense...”
We would say, first, that “the church” that Bell is talking about is a hodgepodge of professing Christians that is no church at all in a Scriptural sense.

As for being irrelevant, the churches that stand on the testimony of Scripture are the most relevant institutions on earth. They alone are standing on the rock of God’s eternal Word rather than the shifting sand of human thinking and feeling. They alone are giving a prophetic voice into the darkness of this present world.

Bell is right about one thing, though. He is right that many churches will accept “gay marriage” and that we are on the cusp of a great turning point in church history. Many “churches” have already accepted homosexual marriage, and others are caving on the issue daily.

The apostle John had a different message from Bell’s: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. ... And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness” (1 John 2:15-17; 5:19). 

More on Rob Bell and Yoga, Meditation:  http://lightnseed.blogspot.com.br/2014/04/about-mr-rob-bell-kriya-kundalini-yoga.html

Bibi showdown with Iran a ‘replay of Bible story’

Bibi showdown with Iran a ‘replay of Bible story’

Netanyahu´s speech at AIPAC

Bill Salus - Nuclear Showdown in Iran

Netanyahu’s Congressional Speech: How Important is it?

Reblogged from www.prophecydepotministries.net      

on Friday, February 27, 2015 by Bill Salus  
On March 3, 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to warn Congressional leaders and their America constituents about the dangers of Iran’s nuclear program. This speech will rank as one of the most necessary and important speeches in Israel’s history.
It will address a problem that is far greater than the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the first Jewish Temple in 586 BC. It will even be bigger than the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the second Jewish Temple in 70 AD. Why? Because, Iran is about to possess a nuclear weapon, and the nation’s rogue Islamic regime is committed to the destruction of Israel.
You are invited to listen to a radio interview with Bill Salus, hosted by Stacy and Randall Harp that explains the geo-political and biblical perspectives about Netanyahu’s concerns.
CLICK HERE to listen to this timely program

The truth about the balance of power in the Middle-East

Via www.bibleprophecyblog.com 
 
Danny Ayalon, Founder of the "Truth About Israel", Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Israeli Ambassador to the United States explains the facts relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the tip of the iceberg in the greater scheme of the balance of power in the Middle East.
The video explains the gap between Israel and the united Arab Muslim bloc, and highlights the disparity between the Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East and Israel, expressed in size and population, as well as in military, political and economic strength.