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King David's palace was amazingly discovered in the City of David, just outside the present walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. After years of archaeological excavations, an ancient Canaanite fortress was uncovered at this site as well. As today's verse describes, when King David entered the city he conquered the "stronghold of Zion" from the pagan Jebusites, quite possibly this very fortress discovered thousands of years later! By wearing a piece of jewelry from the City of David, you carry the ancient biblical world with you, each gorgeous replica copying archaeological findings to the most minute detail.
Follow Yakir on his journey from the moment he steps off the plane as Israel's newest citizen to donning the green IDF uniform in order to defend the land he loves!
The Bnei Menashe community across the remote northeastern Indian state of Manipur have begun preparing for Passover this week. On Thursday, the community baked matzah, the traditional unleavened bread of Passover at the Shavei Israel Hebrew Center in Churachandpur.
The Sages, in their understanding of Exodus 20:9 instructed that the sanctification of the Sabbath and other Holy Days be accompanied by wine. They also instructed that the "Kiddush" or sanctification be made over the wine at the onset of the Sabbath, before the Sabbath meal. By reciting the "Kiddush"- the blessing over wine on the Sabbath, we proclaim the sanctity of the Sabbath day. The wording of the blessing that we recite over the wine mentions both the creation of the world and the redemption from Egypt as examples of God's grandeur. Lastly, Kiddush proclaims the beauty of the day of rest which is about to come. Watch to find out more!
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Pastor Jim and Lori discuss the objectives for the Army of God during President Donald Trump’s term in office with special guests Doctor Don and Mary Colbert, and Mark Taylor.
Quotes
And if you have a mindset of where you’re looking for God to be speaking to you and directing you in everything that you do, you’ll see him in ways that are just so amazing and unique. – Mary Colbert
That’s where your protection is. That’s where your prosperity is. Is when you line up with Him and get on what He wants. It’s not about what we want. – Mary Colbert
It’s God’s army. This is not about one man. This is not about one woman. This is about God. This is about His army, and how effective our warfare is. – Mark Taylor
Scriptures
Hebrews 12:6 NKJV For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
II Corinthians 13:1 KJV This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Revelation 16:14 KJV For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
I Corinthians 1:27 MEV But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
Matthew 24:7 KJV For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
II Timothy 4:3 KJV For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
I Timothy 4:2 KJV Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Matthew 13:39 KJV The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Hebrews 2:4 MEV God also bore them witness with signs and wonders and diverse miracles and with gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His own will.
I Peter 4:17 KJV For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
"In a time marked by hate, persecution, and intolerance—often beginning on social media—we've decided to use the internet as a tool for solidarity, inspiration, and friendship. We wage peace on the internet."—Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
A new ideological war is being waged by a Zionist Christian organization, with astonishing success.
The Jerusalem Prayer Team, a worldwide social media initiative created by the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem, has just exceeded the 20 million followers, globally. The page is now the No. 1 ranked page in Israel, with a greater social media footprint than the combined followings of Hollywood star Gal Gadot and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"In a time marked by hate, persecution, and intolerance—often beginning on social media—we've decided to use the internet as a tool for solidarity, inspiration and friendship. We wage peace on the internet," said Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem. "The Jerusalem Prayer Team is proud to bring together millions of young adults from countless nations and languages who want to see peace flourish in the Middle East."
The page is succeeding in its primary mission—to engage a new, global generation. Over 70 percent of the page's supporters are millennials, and it has millions of members across many countries in the world, including over 3 million in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population.
With over 3.8 million weekly engagements on social networks, the Jerusalem Prayer Team Facebook page has more weekly impressions than President Donald J. Trump and many times more than the largest Christian cable network.
Dr. Evans notes, "Wars of the 21st century wars will be multifaceted: economic, digital, ideological and—nearly all of them—proxy wars. Most of them will be fueled by the internet. The internet is also the solution for the frontline for those of us who dream of peace, especially in the Middle East."
In America, millennials now total 75.4 million and purchase 54 percent of goods and services via their smartphones. They reject cable news and turn to social networks for information. According to Dr. Evans, all these factors make reaching millennials an imperative.
"In many ways, millennials are already shaping our world, but we must reach them where they are: social media," Dr. Evans said. "We must not forget that Facebook began on a college campus."
"Building the Jerusalem Prayer Team is just the beginning. This, among many other initiatives at the Friends of Zion Heritage Center, prepare us to fight a sophisticated war against anti-Semitism online and to rally global advocacy for the Jewish people as never before," said Dr. Evans. "With the BDS Movement, UNESCO, and anti-Israel sentiment on the rise worldwide we are prepared at the right time to provide real help to the Jewish people."
As part of a comprehensive, multi-faceted strategy to promote Christian support for Israel, the Jerusalem Prayer Team is an initiative of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center, which also includes the highly acclaimed Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem and the future Ambassador Institute, and the Corrie ten Boom House in Haarlem, Holland.
Located in the heart of Jerusalem, the Friends of Zion Museum retells the stories of Gentiles who have supported the state of Israel and the Jewish community. It's the first smart museum in the Middle East and the most "technologically saturated" museums in the world. During the first year of operation, over 100,000 individuals toured the facility. Its visitors have included state leaders like President Reuven Rivlin of Israel, President Rosen Plevneliev of Bulgaria, former U.S. presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee, Nobel laureates, ambassadors and NBA and NFL athletes, among others.
The Ambassador Institute is the most recent initiative by the Friends of Zion Heritage Center to fight international anti-Semitism. It will have a real-time social network communication hub that will be linked to the thousands of Christian TV and radio stations, print media, churches and universities worldwide, with original content features and video clips distributed on the wire weekly. The center will also collaborate with one of the world's leading research companies to create Israel's first Christian Zionist think tank.
About Friends of Zion—Located in the heart of Jerusalem, the Friends of Zion Heritage Center is dedicated to bringing stories of love and heroism to the world. Magnificently told using ground-breaking technology found nowhere else in the nation, visitors experience the unfolding story as though stepping back in time. Accompanied by a moving original musical score, fantastic surround sound, lighting second-to-none, and interactive displays that appear to come to life before your very eyes, the Friends of Zion Museum is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for audiences from around the world. Visitors enter a whole new world, where they meet the biblical figures, academics, businessmen and military officials who, through their faith, have forged an everlasting bond between the Jewish and Christian peoples.
Dr. Michael D. Evansis a #1 New York Times best-selling author, award-winning journalist, commentator, minister 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. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on Israel and the Middle East, and is one of the most sought-after speakers on the subject.
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Posted: 03 Apr 2017 Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG
In 2008, subprime mortgages almost single-handedly took down the entire financial system, and now a new subprime crisis is here. In recent years, the auto industry has been able to boost sales by aggressively pushing people into auto loans that they cannot afford. In particular, auto loans made to consumers with subprime credit have been accounting for an increasingly larger percentage of the market. Unfortunately, when you make loans to people that should not be getting them, eventually a lot of those loans are going to start to go bad, and that is precisely what is happening now. Meanwhile, automakers and dealers are starting to panic as sales have begun to fall and used car prices have started to crash. If you work in the auto industry, you might remember how horrible the last recession was, and this new downturn could eventually turn out to be even worse. The following are 12 signs that a day of reckoning has arrived for the U.S. auto industry… #1 Seven out of the eight largest automakers in the United States fell short of their sales projections in March. #2 Overall, U.S. auto sales so far in 2017 have been described as a “disaster” despite record spending on consumer incentives by automakers. #3 Dealer inventories are now at the highest level that we have seen since the last financial crisis. Why this is so troubling is because there are a whole lot of unsold vehicles just sitting there doing nothing, and this is becoming a major financial problem for many dealers. #4 It now takes an average of 74 days before a dealer is able to sell a new vehicle. This number is also the highest that it has been since the last financial crisis. #5 Not only is Ford projecting that sales will fall this year, they are also projecting that sales will fall in 2018 as well. #6 Used vehicle prices are already starting to decline dramatically…
The used-vehicle price index from the National Automobile Dealers Association posted a 3.8% decline in February compared to the prior month. NADA also said wholesale prices fell 1.6%.
#7 As I discussed yesterday, Morgan Stanley is projecting that used car prices “could crash by up to 50%” over the next four or five years. #8 Right now, more than a million Americans are behind on their payments on their auto loans. This is something that has not happened since the last financial crisis. #9 In 2017, U.S. consumers are more “underwater” on their auto loans than they have ever been before. #10 Subprime auto loan losses have soared to their highest level since the last financial crisis, and the delinquency rate on those loans has risen to the highest level that we have seen since the last financial crisis. By now, I am sure that you are starting to notice a pattern in these data points. #11 At this moment, approximately $200,000,000,000 has been loaned out by auto lenders to consumers with subprime credit. #12 Just like with subprime mortgages in the run up to the last financial crisis, subprime auto loans have been bundled together and sold as “securities” to investors. And just like last time around, this has turned out to be a recipe for disaster…
Many auto loans, including those considered subprime, are securitized and sold to investors. But Morgan Stanley recently reported that the share of auto securities tied to “deep subprime” loans – those given to borrowers with a FICO credit score below 550 — has risen from 5.1 percent in 2010 to 32.5 percent today. It said defaults on those bonds have risen significantly in the past five years. Almost a quarter of the more than $1.1 trillion in U.S. auto loan debt is owed by subprime borrowers, and delinquency rates have hit their highest point in seven years.
In the old days, you could always count on the U.S. auto industry to bounce back eventually because of the economic strength of average U.S. consumers. Unfortunately, the middle class in America is being systematically hollowed out by long-term economic trends that our leaders in Washington D.C. have consistently ignored. We have become a nation of economic extremes. There are more millionaires in this country than ever before, but meanwhile poverty is exploding in communities all over the country. If you live in a prosperous area, things may be going great where you live for the moment. But as Gallup has discovered, an all-time record high percentage of Americans are worrying “a great deal” about hunger and homelessness these days…
Over the past two years, an average of 67% of lower-income U.S. adults, up from 51% from 2010-2011, have worried “a great deal” about the problem of hunger and homelessness in the country. Concern has also increased among middle- and upper-income Americans, but they still worry far less than do lower-income Americans.
You may have plenty of money in your bank account, and so for you hunger and homelessness are not very big issues. But for those that are just scraping by from month to month, having enough food and a place to sleep at night are top priorities. Here is more from Gallup…
Americans at all income levels are expressing greater concern about hunger and homelessness, and it is the top worry among lower-income Americans, who are most likely to struggle to pay for adequate food and housing.
In addition to the woes of the auto industry, the retail industry is going through the worst wave of store closings in modern American history, pension funds are melting down all over the nation, and stocks are primed for a crash of epic proportions. Things are lining up just right for the kind of scenario that I laid out in The Beginning Of The End, but unfortunately most people are not listening to the warnings. The same thing happened just before the great financial crisis of 2008. All of the warning signs were there well in advance, and many of the experts were warning about what was coming as early as 2005. But because it did not happen immediately, a lot of people greatly mocked the warnings. But then the fall of 2008 arrived and all of the mockers suddenly went silent. As you can see from the numbers that I shared above, a new crisis has already arrived. The only question now is how bad it will ultimately turn out to be. As always, let us hope for the best, but let us also get prepared for the worst.
