Our Brave and Brilliant Guardians ✡ "Forth and For Ever" - ISRAEL365

Hashem shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for ever. Psalms 121:8 (The Israel Bible™) יְהוָה יִשְׁמָר צֵאתְךָ וּבוֹאֶךָ מֵעַתָּה וְעַד עוֹלָם תהלים קכא:ח Ha-shem yish-mar tzayt-kha u'-vo-e-kha may-a-tah v'-ad o-lam

Shabbat Inspiration The Psalmist's words strengthen our resolve to follow God's word and merit a divine blessing that He will "guard our going out and coming in". Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the people living in the Holy Land have endured countless attacks, whether large-scale or small, from the numerous enemies that surround them. Today's verse therefore brings a sense of comfort to every person living within Israel's borders. One group in particular can internalize the meaning deeper than anyone else: the Israel Defense Forces. From the moment the War of Independence began and until this very day, Israel's defenders have sacrificed themselves in every sense of the word to protect the people and shield them from any harm. It is through their faith in God that the IDF merits divine intervention and shows incredible strength throughout each day's challenges. Show your love for the defenders of the one and only Jewish state. Support the brave soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces » Special Needs IDF Soldiers Make Israel Proud! The IDF is an incredible and inclusive army which gives all Israelis the opportunity to serve! 80 young men and women with special needs volunteered to become IDF soldiers this year. Watch » Words of Support from LIBI Donors "Those who stand with Israel’s army are also the best and most caring people worldwide who understand the importance of supporting Israel’s soldiers," asserted LIBI USA Chairman Dr. Grossman. Read more » Today's Israel Photo Defending Israel is no laughing matter, yet our ladies in green always manage to find a way to see the joy in protecting the land they love! Help support the brave soldiers of the IDF » If you enjoy your Israel365 daily email newsletter, please consider donating to one of our causes or buying products from our store and blessing the Land and the People of Israel. Thanks to our recent Holocaust Survivor Charity Fund Donors "Todah Rabbah" to Fernando and Regina Averbach from São Paulo, Brazil; Brenda Hobbs from Washington; Carolyn Davis from Ohio. Donate to our Holocaust Fund » Thank You to our latest Tree Donors "Todah Rabbah" to Mary Van Gennip from Ontario, Canada; Harry Bergman from New York; Juca Sawyer from London. Plant a Tree in Israel » Thank you to our Israel365 Store Customers "Todah Rabbah" to Julia Shaykevich from Pennsylvania; Val Robinson from California; Citlali Chevaili from California. Shop the Israel365 Store » Thank You Today's Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by Encarnacion MacKenzie from Florida. Sponsor a day in honor of a loved one » “Make This a Better World” It’s great to hear from you and make new friends from all over the world. Please send me an email and let me know how you are enjoying Israel365 (don’t forget to say where you are from!). Stay in Touch » Thank you for Israel365. I am really blessed to have found this website.  Reading this site not only keeps me informed about current events and prophecies concerning Israel, but it also helps me understand God's Word as it was written in the original language. My prayer is that God will continue to use this site to bring all of His people together to make this a better world.  Thanks again.  Connie S. Gordon, Belmont, North Carolina, USA Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Tuly Weisz RabbiTuly@Israel365.com

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Donald Trump: I Will Be the Greatest Representative for Christians They've Had in a Long Time - DAVID BRODY/THE BRODY FILE/CBN NEWS

Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Wilmington, Ohio. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Donald Trump: I Will Be the Greatest Representative for Christians They've Had in a Long Time

11/18/2016 DAVID BRODY/THE BRODY FILE/CBN NEW

Before he was president-elect, Donald Trump sat down with CBN's David Brody to talk about issues Christians face both in the United States and abroad. As Trump prepares to take office, we're looking back at his religious liberty statements that eventually got him elected. 

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Donald Trump says that if he runs for president of the United States, he will be the "greatest representative of the Christians they've had in a long time."

He says he's outraged over the fact that many Christians are stuck in Syria and Iraq even though they want to come to the United States.

Trump sat down with The Brody File in Iowa this past weekend. Watch the clip below along with a transcription.

David Brody: Conservative Christians are concerned about the deterioration of this culture. They are concerned about the marriage issue. What is your message to them on religious liberty and on religious freedom? What are your thoughts about that? What is your message to them specifically?

Donald Trump: Well, it's a very big message. As you know, I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. Most people don't know that. They have no idea. I'm proud of it. I'm very proud of it.

One of the things I learned this weekend being in Iowa, I met with a lot of national security experts and everything else, that if you're a Christian living in Syria you can't come into this country. Yet, if you are a Muslim living in Syria, who are not under attack, they can come in.

But we have Christians being beheaded all over the world by ISIS. In Syria and in Iraq, in particular, those Christians can't come into this country.

You say what you want but this is really something. That's a lack of respect for us. If you're a Muslim, you can come into the country very easy. If you're from Europe and you're a Muslim, you can come in. But if you are from Europe and you're a Christian you can't come in, meaning it's almost impossible.

So you tell me about religious liberty and freedom. The Christians are being treated horribly because we have nobody to represent the Christians. Believe me, if I run and I win, I will be the greatest representative of the Christians they've had in a long time.

If you're wondering what Trump is referring to above, read these articles here and here to get up to speed on his thinking.

Brody File Analysis

Hey look, you may not think of Donald Trump and evangelicals as being the perfect fit, but that would be a lazy misread of the situation. I'm not saying Trump is a hit with all evangelicals. I know his egotism can rub some the wrong way. But let me clue you in to a little secret: Trump's ability to cut through the clutter and paint the world in "absolutes" attracts quite a few evangelical voters.

Remember, evangelicals hold true to their "biblical absolutes" so to see a person like Trump let it rip and tell it like it is becomes a somewhat endearing quality to some evangelicals. Trump takes hits for his boldness and evangelicals take hits from society for their biblical boldness too.

See the parallel? Those who think Trump would just be a presidential sideshow may want to think again if he jumps in. Let's be honest: He has a huge megaphone and so he's going to make news wherever he goes. Trump's challenge (if he gets in) will be to lay out a cohesive message that becomes less about him and his personality and more about the voters he's looking to attract.

I think a "Donald Trump Listening Tour Across America" would be in order. This way Trump makes voters the priority. It would throw the media off their tired narrative and give Trump the upper hand. Having the upper hand is always good in business negotiations and, to coin a phrase, it can also be the "art of the deal" in politics too.

The Brody File. Reprinted with permission from CBN.com. Copyright The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., All rights reserved.

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President Trump, Israel and blessing on the US - Ron Cantor, Messiah's Mandate

President Trump, Israel and blessing on the US

Ron Cantor   MESSIAH'S MANDATE —  November 18, 2016 

I was 100% sure that when I woke up a week ago, Wednesday, Hillary Clinton would be the next president. Clearly, like so many, I was wrong—and so happy I was. While personally I was never a fan of President Elect Trump (for obvious reasons of character), I did like a lot of his policies and Ms. Clinton would have been disastrous. In the beginning of his candidacy, he made a strategic error regarding Israel. He said that he would remain neutral in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, adding correctly “You understand a lot of people have gone down in flames trying to make that deal [peace between Israel and the Palestinians].” But then he said, “I don’t want to say whose fault it is — I don’t think that helps.”

This led to a firestorm of criticism. He was not approaching the issue from someone who knows the facts on the ground, the bias against Israel or the double standards that she deals with every day. Rather, he approached it as a businessman—a negotiator—making a deal. One thing Trump cannot yet understand is negotiations in Middle Eastern culture. Even President Bush and President Obama fell prey regarding this issue, being naive in comparison to the skilled manipulators in the Middle Eastern Arab countries, where lying is not a sin, but an honorable art form.

Trump/Pence Got It on Israel

But then Trump gave his AIPAC speech and hit it out of the park. Pro-Israel Christians and Zionist Jews were raving about his passionate support for the Jewish state. Mike Pence, only days before the election, released a video addressed to Republicans in Israel, expressing unwavering support for the Jewish State. He called Israel not merely a friend, but America’s best friend. Trump has promised to do something that no president has yet done. We have a fully functional, state of the art Embassy for the United States in Jerusalem. But it is not operational because no president has had the chutzpa (gumption) to move it from Tel Aviv. Trump has pledged to do this.

I will curse those who curse you—Genesis 12:3b

Bush came in as pro-Israel and was blessed as a leader. But then he pledged to divide Israel’s land and encouraged the evacuation of 10,000 Jews from Gaza, and things went downhill from there in regards to his presidency. Obama, from the beginning, was hostile towards America’s best friend, even to the point of exuding rudeness and hostility to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Now, not only is he done as president (because of term limits), but also his entire agenda from Obamacare to Immigration Amnesty has been rejected by the American people and will most likely be reversed.

I will bless those who bless you—Genesis 12:3a

It doesn’t take a prophet to tell President Elect Trump how things will go for him and, thus, America, if he backs down from his bold pledge of support for Israel (there will be tremendous pressure on him to do so and most who have gone before him have faltered under its weight). God will bless him and America if he leads the way he proclaimed in his AIPAC speech and moves the embassy (going against the wishes of the UN and most nations). It is really is that simple. If he crumbles under the weight and compromises his commitment, the Lord will not be pleased. But if he sticks to his guns, and favors Israel, God will most surely favor him and the nation will benefit.

“The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”?

Great Britain was once the best friend of the Jewish people and thus the greatest power on earth. They used to say, the sun never sets on the British Empire. But then she became hardened against the Jews, taking 80% of the proposed Jewish homeland to create Jordan. In 1939, as Hitler was beginning his Final Solution, Great Britain closed British controlled Palestine to Jewish immigration from Europe, leaving them to die. And the sun quickly set on Great Britain, and she is now a shell of her former self.

Harry S. Truman was the first head of state to recognize Israel on May 14, 1948. He began a long legacy of the United States being Israel’s best friend, and the US quickly replaced Great Britain as the greatest power on earth.

I, for one, will be praying for President Trump to stand strong in the face of opposition when it comes to Israel. It will mean blessing for the United States of America and for Israel. I did not vote for him in the primary, and while I did vote for him in the election, it wasn’t easy (Hillary was never an option obviously), I am now firmly interceding for the soon to be commander-in-chief to be the president that America needs. And I am rejoicing to no end that Hillary Clinton is finished in politics and will not be able to continue the moral decline in our country or place anti-constitutional liberals on the Supreme Court.

Source: Messiah's Mandate

Israel Braces for Another Dry Winter - Aviel Schneider ISRAEL TODAY

Israel Braces for Another Dry Winter

Friday, November 18, 2016 |  Aviel Schneider  ISRAEL TODAY

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The climate models for the upcoming winter in Israel are not encouraging. For eight years Israel has been going through dry winters. In the last few weeks this topic has often been discussed in the media. Most fear a dry winter, with or without the models.

Even though Israel’s desalination plants are increasingly responsible for national water supplies, they are not an alternative to the necessary rainfall. The water level of the country’s main reservoirs are falling every year.

Israel’s Meteorological Service reported this week that there is a 35 percent chance of a rainy winter, a 37 percent change of an average winter, and a 27 percent chance of a dry winter. It would seem difficult to accurately predict what kind of winter we will have from these numbers.

“The models in our region have never been accurate compared to tropical areas,” explained Dr. Yoav Levi, who heads the Research Department of the Meteorological Service. “In the past five years, we have only twice accurately projected the winter months.”

For Dr. Baruch Ziv, a climate researcher at the Open University in Tel Aviv, the real start of winter is still to come. “A few weeks will pass before the first fierce rain will arrive in Israel,” Ziv told the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot. “This is a problem for us. A November without precipitation is an expensive problem for our farmers, as they have to irrigate their dry fields with the irrigation system.”

Dr. Ziv also pointed out that precipitation in Central Europe has intensified considerably in recent years. But Israel is always left out. In 2010, Israel was surprised when a dry November was followed by a massive snowstorm in December.

“The climate is shifting, and this makes it very difficult to offer reliable weather forecasts,” said Dr. Ziv. Nevertheless, local farmers and religious Jews continue to pray that the land will be abundantly blessed this winter, despite the forecasts.

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Trump Won the Election. Now What? - The Jim Bakker Show

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 On the set of the Jim Bakker Show

Already had been printed before the results were in...

 White House staff after the election

Jim Bakker Show 2016 | Show# 3125 | Aired on November 18, 2016
Jim Bakker Show © 2016 • Morningside Studios

Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker recap the night of the election. Now that Trump has won, what’s next?

Quotes

I’ll tell you this, the next war’s going to be against God’s people. It’s already there. We’ve already been despised. They already hate us for the name of Jesus. But we are more than conquerors. And God is doing something. – Pastor Jim

Start testifying again. Start making our voices count again. We don’t have to be afraid. – Pastor Jim

Scriptures

I Kings 18:33 MEV He arranged the wood and cut the bull in pieces and laid him on the wood and said, “Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.”

Headlines

Why It’s Mathematically Impossible For Trump To Be President – news.groopspeak

Evangelicals Back Donald Trump in Record Numbers, Despite Earlier Doubts – Wall Street Journal

Bystanders yell anti-Trump taunts as man beaten after car crash – Chicago Tribune

Teen girl says she was brutally beaten for supporting Trump – New York Post

Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported – Breitbart