Showing posts with label enemies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enemies. Show all posts

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Mosul Won't Solve the Real Problem—Enemies Still Surround Israel on All Sides - DR. MICHAEL EVANS CHARISMA NEWS


Federal police members carry their weapons as they attempt to break into the Old City during a battle against Islamic State militants in Mosul. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)

Mosul Won't Solve the Real Problem—Enemies Still Surround Israel on All Sides

DR. MICHAEL EVANS  CHARISMA NEWS
Standing With Israel
At 8,019 square miles, Israel is roughly the same size as New Jersey, America's fifth-smallest state. Think about how small that actually is. You can drive from one side of Israel to the other in as little as 90 minutes. And yet, there it sits, surrounded by geopolitical and ideological threats on all sides.
Hamas to the west of Israel in Gaza.
Hezbollah to the north of Israel in Lebanon.
ISIS to the east of Israel in Syria and Iraq
ISIS to the south of Israel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Most recently, coalition forces are battling to retake Mosul after more than two years under the control of ISIS. With the terrorists now on the defensive, it's critically important that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past by assuming this means victory.
Let's recap a bit of recent Middle Eastern history to prove that it doesn't.
Osama Bin Laden, born in Pakistan, traveled to join the Mujahideen resistance in the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the '80s. In the '90s, Bin Laden moved to Sudan, where he leveraged the weak infrastructure of the chaotic East African nation to establish the Al Qaeda network and eventually—after moving back to Afghanistan—launched the largest terrorist attack in American history before being killed in 2011.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born in Jordan, also traveled to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. After spending a few years in a Jordanian prison, he returned to leverage the lawlessness of Afghanistan, where he started training jihadis. After Afghanistan was invaded by U.S. forces after 9/11, Zarqawi moved into the lawless region of northern Iraq, where he eventually became the mastermind behind the insurgency which threw Iraq into a bloody sectarian war and nearly toppled the nascent, U.S.-backed Iraqi government. Zarqawi was finally killed in 2006, and he remains the father of ISIS.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, born in Iraq, took over Zarqawi's old network in Iraq in 2010. This time, it was the chaos in Syria that would provide the jihadis a prime opportunity to regroup and launch their most ambitious plan to date: the creation of a geographical caliphate complete with Sharia law, schools, hospitals, revenue from oil and land. This was the creation of ISIS, a fearsome military presence that has been continually reinforced by foreign fighters flooding Syria and Iraq to wage jihad. Baghdadi is still at large.
These three men are merely representatives of a growing and evolving, existential threat to the very existence of Israel and her allies. And candidly, they only represent one branch of the ideological threat, namely Sunni radicals. Iran's Shiite regime funnels billions of dollars into Lebanon's Hezbollah (also Shiite) and to Hamas in Palestine.
When Mosul is liberated, it will certainly mark a victory for freedom-loving peoples everywhere as well as the citizens of that terrorized city. But let us not kid ourselves. The truth is, like a virus, radical Islamic terrorists will continue to infiltrate other chaotic and lawless nations to spawn their strain of hatred for Israel and the West all over again. Next, could it be Libya or Somalia? Maybe it will be a region like the northeast of Nigeria or Kenya?
You see, it's important to properly frame recent history so that we can look clear-eyed into the future, and this is what it reveals: If radical Islamic terrorism is the virus, then stability is the antibody.
And it's a critical moment. Slowly, Middle Eastern regimes that have quietly funded and encouraged jihad from the safety of their palaces and oil rich treasuries, have come to realize that they, too, are viewed as enemies and apostates by terrorists like ISIS. Should the opportunity present itself, jihadists will infiltrate whatever nation they can, killing innocent civilians and toppling regimes in order to establish their idea of a true caliphate--spreading instability and chaos with it.
But they are no match for stable governments, working in unison and sharing intelligence to disrupt terrorist networks and root out jihad in all its forms. This is exactly why Israel is the key to the Middle East's current crises. Israel possesses the single greatest surveillance gathering network in the region; boasts the strongest military might; enjoys the most robust economy; and is the region's only stable democracy. It's common knowledge that for all of these reasons, Israel is the best friend of the United States in the Middle East, but what's less understood—while they would never admit it—is that Israel is also the ad-hoc best friend of all its Arab neighbors that the terrorists would also aim to destroy from the inside out.
Israel may be surrounded by threats on all sides (literally), but so, too, are her neighboring nations surrounded themselves by jihadis. Some of them have already been infiltrated by them. When Mosul is reclaimed, the remnants of the virus of ISIS will scatter to the wind. Where they will ultimately end up, no one yet knows.
Let us hope and pray that we finally have consensus and the political will throughout the Middle East, to rip this barbaric and hellish virus up from its roots once and for all.
But, trust me, without Israel it would be worse—maybe even apocalyptic. 
Dr. Michael D. Evans is a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author and head of several prominent international non-profit organizations in the U.S., Netherlands, and Israel, including the Friends of Zion Heritage Center and Museum in Jerusalem.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Does God See the Jews As Enemies? - Brian Hennessy ISRAEL TODAY

Does God See the Jews As Enemies?

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 |  Brian Hennessy  ISRAEL TODAY
To those of us who love Israel, that question sounds preposterous. Yet many Christians suffer from what I call a Replacement Theology hangover. They finally made room in their eschatology for a restoration of Israel, but they do not accept the present return of the Jews to their ancient homeland as part of that restoration.  They point out that most Jews in Israel and abroad are still unbelievers in Jesus and therefore must be considered God’s enemies. They’ll quote Paul’s words, “that from the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies” (Rom. 11:27). If they’re enemies of the gospel, they argue, then they are enemies of God.
Sadly, these Christians have taken Paul’s words in Romans 11 completely out of context. After warning all the non-Jewish believers grafted into Israel’s tree  “to not be arrogant towards the branches [that had been cut off],” Paul instructed us concerning the Jews in their present state of unbelief. “From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, BUT from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the Fathers, for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable” (vs. 28, 29).
From an earthly standpoint we should expect them to oppose the promotion of the gospel, tooth and nail.  And that for our benefit! God had deliberately made them enemies of the gospel to drive it out into the nations where we could hear it and get saved. 
But then Paul urges us to look past their angry opposition and view them from God’s perspective. He says, “that from the standpoint of God’s choice” they are still beloved. In other words, don’t think God has rejected them and put them in the same category as every other unbeliever in the world. No, they are still His people – even in their unbelief! The promises to the fathers had not been nullified.  
Over and over He assured Israel that “You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth” (Amos 3:2). So even though a majority rejected Yeshua, their unbelief did not cancel out His eternal commitment to them.  “Though some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be!” (Rom. 3:3,4). God had put them in a state of suspended, militant unbelief until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in [to Israel].”  Then He’ll provide the same mercy and grace to the Jews He gave to us. “For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all” (v. 32)
What these undiscerning Christians don’t realize is that a paradigm shift has taken place in God’s dealing with the Jews. Everything changed with the founding of Israel in 1948. We know this because God always deals with Israel in the same way. 
Whenever the nation’s disobedience finally exhausts God’s patient warnings He allows them to be conquered and thrown out of the land. It happened when Assyria invaded the northern kingdom in 722 BC, when Babylon conquered Judah in 586 BC, and when Rome exiled them again in 70 AD. But those times of exile had an expiration date. We know Judah’s time of punishment, which culminated with the Holocaust, has ended – because they’re back in the land. Their miraculous return, impossible victories against overwhelming odds and rejuvenation of the land, all confirm God is with them, and again fighting for Israel! 
So, yes, the Jews have come home in unbelief. But that’s exactly what had been prophesied. “For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. THEN I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean” (NAS Ezek 36:24,25). And again, in Ezekiel’s famous dry-bones prophecy, it is after the nation is restored from extinction that the prophet is commanded, “say to the breath…Come from the four winds and breathe on these slain, that they may come to life” (Ezek 37:9).
I believe that Breath will soon come. And it will be accompanied by those believers who have awakened to the Hebraic roots of their faith. For if you noticed in my recounting of Israel’s three exiles, there is still one scattering that has not been resolved. Namely, the worldwide banishment of the northern ten tribes of Israel. I have no doubt that all believers who have joined themselves to Messiah from among the nations are their lost descendants. If so, then the next thing on God’s restoration calendar would be to make it possible for us to make _aliyah. _Along with many more Western Jews.
“In those days, ten men from among the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you” (Zech 8:23).
Brian Hennessy is author of Valley of the Steeples
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Shabbat Shalomt to our Israeli friends! We are praying for you!



Shabbat Shalom 
to our Israeli friends! 
We are praying for you!
From all over the world!




Yeshua HaMashiach will protect you from all your enemies.
He has you under His wings.

Prophetic artwork by James Nesbit of Illinois.


We ask the Living God of Israel to surround you with His angels,
Watch over you 
with His protection, 
And keep you for the day 
of the Messiah's return.

Steve & Laurie Martin
Co-Founders
Love For His People, Inc.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

"The Wrath of My Enemies" ✡ Pray for Israel and the IDF Soldiers Fighting Terror

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

PSALMS (138:7)

אִם אֵלֵךְ בְּקֶרֶב צָרָה תְּחַיֵּנִי עַל אַף אֹיְבַי תִּשְׁלַח יָדֶךָ וְתוֹשִׁיעֵנִי יְמִינֶךָ

תהילים קלח:ז


im ay-laykh b'-ke-rev tza-ra t'-kha-yay-nee al af o-y'vai tish-lakh ya-de-kha v'-to-shee-ay-nee y'-mee-ne-kha

Today's Israel Inspiration

Over the centuries, not even the most difficult moments have been able to crush the resilient Jewish spirit, as we remember in Psalms that “You preserve my life.” As Palestinian terror attacks grip the Holy Land, brave young Israeli soldiers are head-on battling "the wrath of our enemies." Please pray for the safety of all of the People of Israel and the Israeli soldiers defending the Nation.

Border Police Reservist:
The Enemy Should Fear Us

Israeli Army Border Police reservists are being called up in the hundreds, to restore security to the streets of Israel. Many are leaving wives, children and loved ones behind, as they resume their mission to protect the Nation of Israel.

Rabbi Reveals God “Sweetened Judgement”
on Israel by Moving War of Gog and Magog to Syria

A respected Hasidic Rabbi speaks about the War of Gog and Magog before the arrival of the Messiah. He challenges the usual understanding of where the war will take place, offering reassuring advice as to what we need to do in these darkened times.

Israel Air Force Sweatshirt

Wear your support for the IDF with this great hooded sweatshirt in navy, bearing the official emblem of the Israeli Air Force.

Today's Israel Photo

A young soldier in the Israel Defense Forces' Armored Corps. looks heavenward for his strength and protection.

Yesterday's Photo Trivia

Thanks to everyone who responded to our Photo Trivia! Boruch Len's beautiful photo featured the cliffs on the eastern edge of Masada. It was here that a 2,000-year-old seed was found in excavations in the early 1960s, and was successfully germinated into a date plant!

Thank You

Today's Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by Judy West of Duncanville, Texas. Todah rabah!

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Good morning Rabbi, I look forward to your emails everyday. They inspire and offer hope to the world. I pray for peace to be within your borders and for G-d's spirit to draw every Israeli into a close personal relationship with Himself. I pray for holiness to reign among your people. I'm more than excited to visit Israel for the first time in November. I'm told it will change my life.  I love the people of Israel. Blessings, Skip Ball, Thousand Oaks, California


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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Israel Photo Trivia ✡ "Rest from Your Enemies"

He will give you rest from your enemies all around, and you will dwell securely.

DEUTERONOMY (12:10)
 

וְהֵנִיחַ לָכֶם מִכָּל אֹיְבֵיכֶם מִסָּבִיב וִישַׁבְתֶּם בֶּטַח

דברים י’’ב:י

v'-hay-nee-akh la-khem mi-kol o-y'-vay-khem mi-sa-vee vee-shav-tem be-takh

Today's Israel Inspiration

In today's verse, the Children of Israel receive a beautiful blessing from Moses that if they follow the words of God, peace will reign in the Land of Israel. And so it was under the leadership of Joshua in the Land. But the peace was short-lived, and it did not take long for enemy nations to rise up following Joshua's death. Throughout history, there have been quiet periods in the Land, but none have been long-lasting. We pray for the complete fulfillment of this verse when we will be blessed with everlasting safety and security in the Land of Israel. Help keep our brave men and women hydrated this hot summer with a special Camelback water system.
 

Brave, Fierce and Strong: Meet the First Women to Guard in Nablus

“We guard day and night and we barely sleep so that the citizens can feel protected,” states Sgt. Yanina Jatemliansquy, a female soldier in the IDF's new co-ed David Unit.

75 Torahs at the Western Wall

The victims of last summer’s war with Gaza were memorialized in a special LIBI Fund event at the Western Wall, in which 75 Torah scrolls were dedicated in their memory.
 

Krav Maga IDF Logo T-Shirt

Krav Maga, the lethally effective martial art developed by the Israeli army, is bigger than ever. The IDF martial art uses an efficient yet simple technique with which the IDF turns normal people into deadly fighters. Wear this Krav Maga T-shirt, sporting the “IDF Krav Maga” wings and the caption “Israeli Fighting Technique” to show that you support the IDF and are not to be messed with!

Israel Photo Trivia

Can you guess which city these Israeli Air Force jets are flying by? Send me an email or post your answer on Facebook!
 

Thank You

Please help us continue to spread the beauty and significance of the Land of Israel!
 

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Hi Rabbi, I am so blessed with your newsletters and want to thank you for what you are doing. I was so disappointed to read that they are having talks to lift the sanctions from Iran, but I will not fear for the state of Israel, because God will not let anything happen to His nation. I will pray that our God will continue blessing and protecting His nation. May our God bless you and your family a million times over. With lots of love, From your sister, Rochelle Klassen, Africa (Namibia, Windhoek)

Bless you and yes please keep sending.  We need to see, to hear and to know.  Baruah Abba Shem Adonai. Amen, Diana LaCourse
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