Beit Orot key speech, Jan. 9, 2016In response to the requests you've sent me, here is my speech from last week's Beit Orot dinner in New York as a Facebook video, for easy sharing.
Posted by Caroline Glick on Tuesday, January 12, 2016
ENGLISH ONLY EDITION. Light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Psalm 97:11
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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‘Pope Francis’ Calls for Collaboration With World’s Religions, Those Who ‘Meet God in Different Ways’
ROME — In
his first-ever video declaring his “prayer intentions,” the Roman
Catholic leader Jorge Bergoglio, also known as Pope Francis, called for
dialogue and collaboration among those of the various world religions on
Tuesday, asserting that they are simply “seeking or meeting God in
different ways.”“Most of the planet’s inhabitants declare themselves believers,” he states in the production released on the Feast of Epiphany. “This should lead to dialogue among religions. We should not stop praying for it and collaborating with those who think differently.”
The video then features clips of those from different world religions declaring belief in their various deities.
“I have confidence in Buddha,” a female lama announces.
“I believe in Jesus Christ,” a priest states.
“I believe in Allah,” an Islamic leader declares.
Francis contends that all the religions of the world simply represent mankind’s diversity in seeking God. He says that despite the differing beliefs, everyone is a child of the same God.
“Many think differently, feel differently, seeking God or meeting God in different ways,” he states. “In this crowd, in this range of religions, there is only one certainty that we have for all: we are all children of God.”
The video then provides footage of the pontiff meeting with and embracing those of various religions, including Buddhists, Islamists and Orthodox Jews. It again cuts to representatives of the world’s religions, who now declare the same statement: “I believe in love.”
“I hope you will spread my prayer request this month: that sincere dialogue among men and women of different faiths may produce fruits of peace and justice,” Francis states. “I have confidence in your prayers.”
“Tragically, those who do not know the Bible or who refuse to submit to it as the supreme authority for truth, will be deceived by the pope’s latest pronouncement,” he stated. “The pope’s assertion that all mankind meets with/seeks after the same God, just in different ways, is false according to the word of God. No one seeks for (the true) God (Rom. 3:11), but there are many who seek after false gods of their own imagination or false gods of their religious traditions. The only way to meet with the true God is His way, through the one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5).”
“The word of God reveals that the human race is made up of people who are either children of God or children of the devil (1 John 3:10),” Gendron explained. “The Lord Jesus soundly rebuked the religious leaders of His day for refusing to believe the truth of His Word (John 8:440-43). Jesus told them that their father was the devil, who is the father of lies (John 8:44).”
“This remains true today,” he continued. “The god of this world has created a variety of religions to blind all of his children from the light of the Gospel and the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4:4).”
Gedron said that in one sense—although not deliberately—Francis is correct as all are children of the darkness by nature, but man only becomes a child of God when he is reborn in Christ.
“Everyone is a child of the ‘god of this world’ until they exchange their religion for a relationship with the one true God through Jesus Christ,” he outlined. “Those who receive Jesus by believing in His name become children of God (John 1:12-13).”
Gendron, a former Roman Catholic, also opined that the pontiff’s ecumenicism is fulfilling prophesy about the formulation of a one world religion.
“As the pope continues to accelerate his ecumenical agenda to rebuild the religious tower of Babel, he will be fulfilling Bible prophecy. All the religions of the world already share a ‘works-righteousness’ salvation and they all are already united by a common spiritual bond,” he said.
“As we see the prophetic one-world religion forming, we know the children of the true God will have no part of it because they have been sanctified by the truth and sealed with the Holy Spirit (2 Thes. 2:13),” Gendron stated.
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Column one: Obama’s constitutional overreach… and Israel
After all, the article concludes that the NSA intercepts of these communications “revealed one surprise."
“Mr. Netanyahu and some of his allies voiced confidence they could win enough votes” in Congress to scuttle Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Ha ha. What dummies.
If their goal was simply to show that the White House has more leverage over Democratic lawmakers than the Israeli government does, then the article overshot the mark.
Beyond expressing the administration’s contempt for Netanyahu, the Journal’s article showed that Netanyahu isn’t the only one the administration sneers at.
It sneers at the American public and at members of Congress as well. And in so doing, it sneers at and deliberately breaks US law and tramples the US Constitution.
Under US law, American intelligence gathering agencies, including the NSA, are only permitted to spy on US citizens in order to protect US national security.
Under the US Constitution, the administration is arguably prohibited from spying on US lawmakers.
And yet, according to the Journal report, to advance its diplomatic opening to Iran, the administration has knowingly and deliberately spied on both law-abiding US citizens who posed no risk to US national security and on US lawmakers engaged in their lawful, constitutional duties.
As the criminal activity was characterized by the report, to protect Obama’s nuclear talks with the Iranians, Netanyahu was marked as a top intelligence target for the NSA. The NSA monitored all of his communications and all communications of his senior officials – most notably Ambassador Ron Dermer.
The report explains that the NSA’s “targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with US lawmakers and American-Jewish groups. That raised fears – an “Oh sh** moment, one senior US official said – that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.”
That “Oh sh** moment” didn’t make the administration pull back, or order the NSA to follow the law and destroy all communications between Israeli officials and US lawmakers. Rather the administration decided to suffice with winks and nods to make sure that the NSA understood that it should make law breaking an official policy and continue to share deliberately the communications it had mistakenly shared with the White House.
As the Journal report put it, “White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign [to convince Congress to scuttle Obama’s nuclear capitulation to Tehran]. They also recognized that asking for it was politically risky. So, wary of a paper trail stemming from a request, the White House let the NSA decide what to share and what to withhold, officials said. “We didn’t say, ‘Do it,’ a senior US official said. ‘We didn’t say, “Don’t do it.”’” Cute. But probably illegal.
The picture painted by the Journal article is of an administration that made massive, continuous and deliberate use of intercepted conversations between lawmakers and private citizens with Israeli officials.
Consider the administration’s indignant fury when news broke on January 21 of last year that the Republican congressional leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehnor had invited Netanyahu to address the joint Houses about the dangers of the Iran nuclear deal.
Obama and his advisers insisted that they were blindsided by the news. Yet, on Wednesday, the Journal published a report that strongly indicated that through its spying on lawmakers, the White House learned of the plan to invite Netanyahu to speak before Congress before Netanyahu found out about it.
The Journal reported that Boehner and McConnell met on January 8 and decided to invite Netanyahu to address a joint session. Recognizing the sensitivity of the issue, they told only their closest advisers about their plan. On January 9, Boehner called Dermer and raised the issue for the first time.
Since we now know that the NSA was monitoring all of Dermer’s communications – including his communications with US lawmakers – it appears to follow that NSA intercepted Boehner’s call to Dermer.
According to the Journal, the White House’s demand for intelligence on Israel was so intense that the NSA was transferring transcripts of intercepted calls within six hours of their interception.
Two weeks after Netanyahu’s March 4 address before the joint Houses of Congress, the Journal reported that the US was concerned about Israeli spying on the nuclear talks with Iran.
The article began, “Soon after the US and other major powers entered negotiations last year... [with Iran], senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.”
It continued, “The espionage didn’t upset the White House as much as Israel’s sharing of inside information with US lawmakers and others.”
The article went on to describe the content of briefings Dermer gave US lawmakers in late 2013 detailing Israel’s concerns about the interim nuclear deal the US was then concluding with the Iranians. Although it was attributed to congressional sources who participated in the briefings, now that we know the administration was spying on US lawmakers communicating with Israeli officials, it is reasonable to suspect that the administration learned of the briefings from its illegal espionage against US lawmakers.
In Wednesday’s article, we learned that last summer, as Congress prepared to vote – or not to vote – on Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the administration intercepted communications carried out between Israeli officials and private citizens as well as Democratic lawmakers.
From these intercepted communications, the administration learned Israel’s pitch for Democratic lawmakers in its efforts to convince them to oppose the deal.
According to the article, among other things, Israeli officials asked the wavering lawmakers, “How can we get your vote? What is it going to take?” Given Israel’s failure to convince a significant number of Democratic senators to oppose the deal, the suspicion arises that the administration read the answers and used the ill-begotten information as a means of blocking Israel from securing Democratic opposition to Obama’s nuclear deal.
It ought to go without saying that the administration’s massive efforts to block information about the most radical US foreign policy initiative since World War II from US lawmakers speaks volumes about how Obama and his colleagues assessed the public’s position on Iran generally and Obama’s nuclear talks with the mullocracy specifically.
The nuclear deal with Iran endangers the US directly.
It empowers the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism financially, diplomatically and militarily. Iran declared war against the US 37 years ago and has been calling for the destruction of America and supporting terrorist attacks against the US and its allies ever since.
As to those allies, the nuclear deal with Iran specifically, and the Obama administration’s decision to embrace Iran as a potential ally more generally, place Israel in jeopardy. So, too, it endangers all of the US’s traditional Arab allies.
Yet rather than reconsider its strategic goal of courting Iran at the expense of its own national security and that of its closest allies, the Obama administration determined that its most urgent goal was to scuttle Israeli attempts to warn lawmakers and the US public about the dangers of the deal. Rather than redouble its commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Obama administration launched an intensive espionage operation against Israel, its American- Jewish supporters and US lawmakers to diminish their ability to prevent the deal from being concluded or implemented.
The timing of the report is odd. Obama blocked Congress from even voting on his nuclear deal four months ago, and ever since he has been choking on his victory. With each passing day it becomes clearer that Netanyahu was right about the danger of the deal and Obama was wrong, and deliberately misleading.
Four months later, Iran still refuses to approve or implement the deal. The American hostages it holds continue to languish in its prisons. Its nuclear sites remain closed to international inspectors. Its ballistic missile program is moving forward and no one takes seriously the administration’s announcement this week that it will pursue sanctions at the UN Security Council against Iran for its recent ballistic missile tests.
For its part, Iran is so emboldened by the deal that last week it shot a missile across the Straits of Hormuz in close proximity to a US naval ship. The ayatollahs are convinced that Obama will suffer any and all indignities to keep up the fiction that he has a nuclear deal with them. They are certain that rather than acknowledge his mistake, Obama will ground Congress and Israel to the ground.
And yet now, as Iran daily humiliates Obama with its unbridled aggression, that senior administration officials chose to brag to Wall Street Journal reporters about how they spied on Israel in breach of Obama’s pledge not to spy on leaders of US allied nations. It is now, when Obama’s opening to Iran is a self-evident failure, that they chose to share how they broke US law by spying on US citizens and abused the president’s constitutional authority by spying on US lawmakers.
Hours after the Journal article was published, Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, announced that his committee will review how the NSA handled its intercepts of congressional communications with Israeli officials.
Certainly, the Intelligence Committee should aggressively pursue the issue. For the fact is that the administration’s arguably unconstitutional moves to block Congress from exercising oversight over Obama’s foreign policy is not limited to his nuclear outreach to Iran.
Last month, Secretary of State John Kerry said the climate change deal the US and the world powers concluded in Paris was drafted in a way that would deny Congress oversight power over the deal. In other words, a common thread linking the administration’s policies from the Middle East to the ozone layer is its desire to disempower Congress.
Israelis reasonably concentrate their attention on how stories affect them. So most of the discussion in Israel following the Journal’s report on Wednesday revolved around what the story means for the prospects of better relations with the administration in its final year in power.
But in truth, the story wasn’t really about Israel. It was about an administration so contemptuous of US lawmakers and citizens that its senior officials have no compunction about admitting that they are breaking the law. They brazenly admit that they are undertaking unlawful spying operations against private citizens and lawmakers and in so doing conducting a massive abuse of presidential powers while trampling the spirit and arguably the letter of the US Constitution.
And they expect that no one will call them to task for it.
www.CarolineGlick.com
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Yes, it's really 'volcano season,' say scientists
WASHINGTON – Think you've got enough to worry about with collapsing economy, terrorism, wars and rumors of wars? Think again. Have you been paying attention to what appears to be an increase in volcanic activity across the planet? There's a 5 percent to 10 percent chance in the next 80 years, scientists say, one of these…
Friday, January 1, 2016
Don’t Take Satan’s Bait
Reblogged from raptureready.com
By Bill Wilson
Everyone is
trying to make
sense of all the
violence across
the country.
These things are
not
new, but
they seem to be
getting worse.
For example in a
Christmas Eve
Jot article in
2008,
I
recounted the
headlines of how
a newlywed
husband, eager
to see what his
wife had gotten
him
for Christmas,
peeked inside
the wrapping.
The wife was so
enraged that she
stabbed her
husband six
times with a
kitchen knife.
A kitchen knife
was also the
weapon in New
Jersey where a
mother slashed
her six year old
son’s throat,
then tried to
commit suicide.
In Detroit, a
woman committed
suicide after
shooting her
husband and
family dog dead
with the same
gun. Today we
have stories of
terrorist events
and
murders—leading
up to and
through the
holidays.
Fires, family
fights, murders,
suicides,
terrorist
events, drunk
driving deaths,
even natural
deaths seem to
be more
prevalent during
the holiday
season. People
are stressed.
They are rushing
about, busy with
getting and
doing things, so
much so that
life itself
seems to take a
backstage.
Then there is
that one little
thing; a child
asking that
silly question
for the tenth
time, or the
husband coming
home a tad bit
late, or the
wife not getting
that little
thing done, and
“boom”
everything blows
up and lives are
changed forever.
My household
growing up was a
wonderful place
to be. But the
only arguments I
remember my
parents having
were during the
holidays. Some
stupid thing
would go wrong
and not even a
well-prepared
secretary of
State could
successfully
intervene. We
lived at our
farm that had
been in the
family for over
200 years. And
things were old
and sometimes
didn’t work
well.They
didn’t work well
especially
during the
holidays when
large family and
friend
gatherings were
about to occur.
One year, the
well went dry
just hours
before my mother
was to serve a
meal to about 25
family members.
She ordered a
water truck to
come fill the
well. My dad
said that the
water would just
run out of the
well and that
she just had to
patiently wait
for the water
level to restore
itself.This led
to World War
III. Mom
was packing her
bags and leaving
the old farm
house
forever.Well,
my dad’s
patience with
her saved the
day, and a
little help from
a quick running
spring gave us
the water we
needed. All was
well.
But the point
is that during
holidays that
celebrate the
Savior of the
world, Jesus
Christ, the
spiritual enemy
presses in and
tries to steal
the joy of the
season.Jesus
said in John
10:10:
“The thief
comes not, but
for to steal,
and to kill, and
to destroy: I am
come that they
might have life,
and that they
might have it
more
abundantly.”
Remember that
Satan wants to
destroy anything
that would honor
Christ, your
holidays, your
home, your
family, even
you.But Christ
is the life
giver.He came
that we might
have life to its
fullest
measure.So when
those thoughts
creep in that do
not reflect the
life-giving joy
of Christ, cast
them down before
they become
actions.
If you can’t
seem to do that,
call your pastor
or a friend or
911. Don’t take
Satan’s bait.
Have a Blessed
and Powerful
Day!
Bill Wilson
www.dailyjot.com
www.dailyjot.com
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
As you see the day approaching
This is a very interesting and thorough
e-book posted in PDF format by EVANGELICAL BIBLE COLLEGE OF WESTERN
AUSTRALIA, detailing the certainty that our present generation is the
generation that will see the return of Christ, and the
specific developments and prophetic trends in the past seventy years (a
generation), toward a global government, a global religion, and a global
economy. It is a great resource to point others to, who may be new to
Bible Prophecy, as a comprehensive review of what has already
transpired, and bringing them right up to the current moment. It
covers the exact fulfillment of those prophecies of the first coming of
Christ, and assures one of the current and soon fulfillment of those
which relate to His impending second coming.
Click the link below to access and save the PDF to your computer.
As You See the Day Approaching
100 BIBLICAL PROPHETIC TRENDS 1945 – 2015
by DR PETER JOHN MOSES, June 2015
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