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This week’s portion contains one of the worst, if not the single gravest sin in the entire Torah: the slanderous report of the spies against the Land of Israel. Moses sends one representative from each tribe to scout out the territory and ten of the twelve return with a negative report. Only Caleb and Joshua have faith in God and speak positively about Israel. Whereas God forgives many sins throughout the Bible, slandering Israel is completely unacceptable and the entire generation is punished with 40 years of wandering. We must all be more like Caleb and Joshua and stand up for Israel at every opportunity. Sign this vital petition showing you stand with Israel.
In a startling discovery, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, one of the world’s leading experts on Bible Codes published a video on YouTube suggesting that ISIS will be destroyed between now and 2016 by the messiah, son of Joseph, known in Hebrew as Mashiach Ben Yosef.
Crossing the Line: The Intifada Comes to Campus, produced by acclaimed filmmaker Raphael Shore and directed by Wayne Kopping, explores the proliferation of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents on North American college campuses. In particular, the film explores the rapid growth of such incidents following the launch of Operation Cast Lead by Israel’s military into Gaza in late December 2008 and January 2009. The documentary demonstrates the blurring of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic lines, showing how the War evoked deep anti-Jewish sentiments amongst college students and professors.
Date palms by Boruch Len. Did you know that the 'honey’ that Israel is blessed with does not refer to bee’s honey? According to Jewish tradition, it refers to date honey which was a rich delicacy in Biblical times.
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The enemy is about to hear from our children and grandchildren beginning this season. Watch and expect the passion for Christ to run wild like a raging fire inside of them.
The Lord has allowed them to be placed in strategic locations in the earth and even in some unusual places where we think they shouldn’t be. In prisons, homeless on the streets, or wherever they are being held in Satan’s grip.
They have now been divinely positioned to become a firebrand in God’s hand to ignite and explode like dynamite inside the camp of the enemy! This is why the enemy forever has fought against marriages. He feared concerning the Godly seed that was about to come upon the earth to do him in. And here they come!
“Your descendants will defeat their enemies.” Genesis 22:17 ( Message Bible )
“A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him” (Proverbs 6:12-16)
In a startling discovery released on June 2, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, prolific author and one of the world’s leading experts on Bible Codes (also known as Torah Codes), published a video on YouTube suggesting that ISIS will be destroyed between now and 2016 by the messiah, son of Joseph, known in Hebrew as Mashiach Ben Yosef.
Glazerson cautioned Breaking Israel News that these codes should not be understood as a prediction. “I found Ben Yosef appearing there next to [the code that ISIS will be destroyed]. This fits with the idea that Mashiach Ben Yosef will lead the wars against the enemies of Israel… As this is a known idea, such a table is not a real prediction.”
In Jewish tradition, Mashiach Ben Yosef is the predecessor of the messiah, son of David (Mashiach Ben David), the ultimate redeemer of the Jewish people. Glazerson explained that Mashiach Ben Yosef “will fight the evil forces against Israel”.
Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson describing his Bible Code discovery that ISIS will be destroyed by 2016.
The theory behind Bible Codes is that the 304,805 Hebrew letters in the Torah were written with Divine intelligence and contain hidden patterns and letter sequences that reflect important events in Jewish history. One technique used in locating Bible Codes is called equidistant letter sequences. This means that Hebrew words are spelled out by starting at a letter and repeatedly skipping an equal number of letters until a meaningful word is spelled. These words are referred to as Bible Codes. Computer programs such as the one Glazerson uses, help researchers locate significant codes embedded in the Hebrew Biblical text.
Glazerson credits Haim Sade, a fellow Bible Codes expert, who sent him the table in which these codes were found. In the 4-minute video released on June 2, Glazerson points out multiple encoded Hebrew words, all found within the same block of Hebrew letters taken from the Book of Numbers.
The most significant hidden codes are three Hebrew words that imply that ISIS will be destroyed by Mashiach Ben Yosef. By pointing out related Bible Codes, Glazerson hints that the dates of the destruction will be during the Hebrew years 5775 and 5776, which correspond to the secular years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
Of course, the word ISIS does not appear in the Hebrew text. Instead, ISIS is referred to DAESH, an acronym that stands for Dar al Islam al Sham. DAESH is the name by which Hebrew speakers refer to ISIS.
In the same block of text is the Hebrew word keitz, which refers to the End of Days. Also nearby, in equidistant letter sequences, is the word Mashiach. Within the span of letters that spell out Mashiach is the word that means “rise up”. The implication is that, just as the Bible predicts, Mashiach will rise up.
In another part of this same block of Biblical text, also in equidistant letter sequence, are the words Ben Yishai, the son of Jesse. This is an unmistakable reference to King David and to Mashiach Ben David, since the ultimate Jewish redeemer must descend from King David.
The table from which all of these Bible Codes were derived comes from the Book of Numbers which, according to Glazerson, is significant because the Book of Numbers is where we look for “the events which are going to happen before the coming of the Mashiach.”
The discovery of Bible Codes supports the traditional Jewish belief that the words of the first five books of the Bible were dictated to Moses by God, letter-by-letter.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/42382/new-bible-codes-point-to-the-destruction-of-isis-by-2016-jewish-world/#tD9CSAWI8WYXDvMV.99
His wife, Naghmeh, writes about the attack on her Facebook page, saying, "It is truly heartbreaking to know that one day after I spoke in front of our Congress, Saeed was beaten by fellow prisoners."
The June 3 attack took place as he was attempting to leave his cell. Pastor Saeed was punched in the face near his left eye and nose. Both eyes were beaten black and blue, but no bones were broken.
His attackers also destroyed a small table he used to study and read. Prison guards did not intervene when he called for help.
ACLJ's Tiffany Barrans spoke more about Saeed's situation. Click play below to watch.
"It's time to get Saeed home before it's too late," his wife wrote.
Saeed has been beaten multiple times in the past, including by prison guards.
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Just outside Jerusalem, a team of Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists uncovered the remains of a 1,500-year-old Byzantine-era church.
Contractors discovered the church while widening the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
IAA archaeologists said the church was part of a larger complex, which also served as a road station for pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem.
"The location of the church is not accidental," the IAA's Annette Nagar said.
"On the one hand it's built beneath a water spring, which in Arabic is called 'anaka.' And on the other side, it's built on one of the ancient roads leading from Jerusalem, between Jerusalem and the coast," Nagar explained. "This was a road station, which besides giving services of food and drink, it also gave religious services."
The church and road station were part of a series of churches that served travelers on their way to Jerusalem.
Other churches discovered along this route include a church in Emmaus, the traditional site where according to the Gospel of Luke (24:13-28), Jesus appeared to two of his disciples.
Scholars believe Emmaus was located where Motza stands today, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, just off the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway.
The Islamic State is converting one of the largest churches in Mosul into a mosque almost a year after the city fell to ISIS.
Christian Today reports that notices of the conversion have been posted on streets throughout Mosul, a city that was once the heart of Iraq's Christian population.
Most Christians fled the city since the jihadists forced them to either convert, flee, or be killed.
According to the Vatican's news service, the church being overtaken is the Syrian Orthodox Church of St Ephraim. ISIS fighters have already removed Christian symbols from the building, including the cross on the church's dome.
Iraqi media says the church has already been draped with the nortorious black and white flags of the Islamic State.
Nuri Kino, president and founder of A Demand For Action, told Newsweek the church conversion is proof of the Islamic State's intentions with Iraqi Christians.
"A year ago they said 'convert, pay or die.' Then it turned out to be a lie, that even if you pay you will not be able to stay," Kino said
"If they changed a church to a mosque it is further proof of their cleansing, something that many call a genocide," he added. "They destroy our artifacts, our churches. and try to erase us in any way they can."
A Byzantine church dating to the 5th century AD was discovered this month along Highway 1 connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The site is situated near the Arab village of Abu Ghosh and the Messianic moshav of Yad Hashmonah.
According to archaeologists, the church was part of a rest stop on the route between Jerusalem and the coastal region. During the excavations, a chapel featuring a white mosaic and a small baptismal in the shape of a cross (pictured) was found. Red plaster chips scattered around the floor indicated frescoed walls.
Nearby living quarters and storage facilities contained ceramic tiles, beautifully-preserved oil lamps and other objects belonging to the church.
Annette Nagar, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority, noted that this was the third church that had been discovered along this ancient route, the other two being located in Kiryat Ye’arim and Emmaus.
The church was discovered quite by accident during a major construction project to expand the highly-trafficked Highway 1. It again goes to show that no matter where you dig in Israel, you are certain to come face-to-face with history.
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A heated debate at the recent Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York highlighted that back in 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently ordered Israel’s defense establishment to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, or to prepare to do so.
During the discussion, Post columnist Caroline Glick accused fellow panelists former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi of refusing Netanyahu’s orders during their respective tenures.
“In 2010, according to a report from 2012 on the Israeli news program Uvda, we learned that two of the gentlemen on this panel were given an order to prepare the military for an imminent strike against Iran’s military installations and they refused,” charged Glick.
The popular columnist was adamant that had Dagan and Ashkenazi gone along with Netanyahu’s policies, the region and the world would not today be facing the specter of a nuclear Iran.
Dagan responded that he had rebuffed Netanyahu “because it was an illegal order.” Earlier in the debate, he had suggested that a firm order was never given: “We were always willing to obey any legal order by the prime minister. We never refused an order.”
In a subsequent interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Dagan explained that Netanyahu had indeed told himself and Ashkenazi to prepare the IDF to strike, but had backed down after realizing that doing so would put Israel on a slippery slope toward regional war.
Also speaking at the Jerusalem Post event was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who lamented that with the Obama Administration now racing toward an ill-advised agreement with Tehran, a nuclear-armed Iran seems inevitable.
“We went through these negotiations with Iran in the earlier part of this decade, and they cheated for three years and were caught three times cheating,” Giuliani noted. “There is no reason for Iran to have peaceful use of nuclear power, they have plenty of energy. You have to be naive to think they want nuclear power for peaceful uses.”
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Joseph Kim was born to an ordinary family in North Korea. Until the age of 5 he lived a relatively normal life in the closed-off country tightly controlled by its totalitarian regime. But in the mid-1990s a terrible famine swept the country and lasted more than a decade. Millions died in the disaster, including Joseph's father. After his mother was arrested and his sister sold into marriage, Joseph found himself alone on the streets begging for food.
After three years living on the streets, he made the desperate decision to flee to China.
"I had been informed by others that China had…if not surplus, at least people don't die of starvation. That information really compelled me and I knew that as long as I make it to China, at least I'm not going to die of starvation," he said.
However, he found survival in China nearly as difficult as in North Korea. Most people either didn't have the money or the desire to help Korean refugees living in their country.
Eventually, Joseph found help from a church that gave him money to buy food. Later he found safe haven with a Chinese-Korean Christian woman who took him into her home. While living with the woman he called 'Grandma,' he read the Bible and learned about Christianity and began what he calls his "spiritual journey."
"Growing up in North Korea, I never really heard of religion, God, Jesus," he said. "So it was really difficult for me to understand what religion was and what Christians are."
But because Christians were the ones who took the risk to help him and other refugees, it sparked his curiosity and desire to learn more about religion, he said. Several months after coming to China, an underground Christian group helped him escape to the United States, where his is studying for his college degree and continues his spiritual journey.
But could that also mean they're exposed to a form of evangelism like no other? These martyrs are not dying silently, and the Lord is apparently working through them.
"One of our YWAM workers in the Middle East was contacted by a friend earlier this year and they met up and he was introduced to an ISIS fighter who had killed many Christians already. I mean that's a horrible situation, and admittedly, he was probably on guard," Gina Fadely, director of Youth With A Mission Frontier Missions.
"He told this YWAM leader that he had begun having dreams of this man in white who came to him and said, 'You are killing My people.' And he started to feel really sick and uneasy about what he was doing," Fadely continued. "The fighter said just before he killed one Christian, the man said, 'I know you will kill me, but I give to you my Bible.' The Christian was killed and this ISIS fighter actually took the Bible and began to read it. In another dream, Jesus asked him to follow Him and he was now asking to become a follower of Christ and to be discipled."
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is in Israel this week, and had nothing but glowing praise for the Jewish state’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
“Israel is booming in terms of entrepreneurship because you have a culture to challenge authority and to question everything,” Schmidt told students at the Weizmann Institute on Sunday.
The Google chief said Israelis were so successful because “you’re not going by the rules.”
And that success has benefitted not only Israel, but the world. “The impact of the Israelis on science and technology is immense, so that’s why I’m here and why I’m investing here,” said the head of one of the world’s largest technology firms.
On Tuesday, Schmidt met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. While he hardly needed to do so, Netanyahu reminded Schmidt of Israel’s leadership in the cyber industry, and reiterated his commitment to bolstering the growth of what has been called “the Start-Up Nation.”
Schmidt, for his part, reaffirmed Google’s commitment to investing in Israel.
PHOTO: Netanyahu and Schmidt meet at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem.
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