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Zechariah's Vision Prayer Alerts Archive

August 20, 2010 - December 30, 2016 Prayer Alert Archive


This is the archive page for the newer Prayer Alert headlines to provide a daily reminder for PRAYER and ACTION because we cannot keep silent, but awake and sober.

We are to do something becuase "The Quartet" seeks to divide the nation of Israel while others want to destroy it.

For the background, check the original post: Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet.

In addtion to this archive, Prayer Alert Updates are posted from time to time due to the "Front Page" prophetic implication of many of today's headlines and our need to remember those affected by these stories with the "sweet incense" offering of prayer. After all, Zechariah is from the Hebrew name זְכַרְיָה (Zekharyah) meaning "Y-H-V-H remembers."

These alerts keep an eye on the news through the lens of prophecy on the planet's plan to divide Israel and Jerusalem for "Peace" because Palestinians oppose Israel's existance. The international peace "Quartet" is the UN, the EU, Russia and the U.S.A.

There is certainly no "thus saith The Lord" intended by any of my comments or observations you will read here. The only time you can know "thus saith The Lord" is when Scripture is quoted, after all it is God's written Word. I am not claiming that the four horns of Zechariah have to be defined in just one way, but the truth should be uncovered. First, the concept of four should lean our orientation to the four corners of the globe, horns point us to authority and government power.

If you just look and the news and consider history we can see that we are feeling the seismic shocks shaking like the statue of Nebuchadnezzar. 

Babylon or rather Iraq has fallen. Syria is in anarchy and Iran is opposed by the everyone but Russia as its supporter in a nuclear race perhaps linked in some way with North Korea. Greece has seen economic free fall has threatened the financial stability of the EU. Even Italy, the home of the Caesars has peered over the cliff of economic collapse yet the world seeks to divide Israel and Jerusalem.

Consider Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet for a perspective on the Biblical background to news events tied to The Quartet's plan to separate Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem which is proposed as a so-called Peace Agreement, a Two State Solution to divide the covenant land of Israel and establish a Palestinian state.

Reading Isaiah's words below, we might consider the prophet is providing a second witness and warning about the peace agreement proposed by The Quartet insisting that the government of Israel adopt...
"Why hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report." Isaiah 28:17-19
The message is even more telling if we just look into the Hebrew words: the word "vexation" is zĕva`ah, which means "object of terror". The word "report" seen in the King James is actually shĕmuw`ah, it literally means "news". The word "scourge" is the Hebrew word "showt", it means national judgment. So... Isaiah tells us: from the time that national judgment goes forth it shall be an object of terror to understand the news.

Isaiah says that the agreement will be annulled.

Paul warns the real problems start when they say "THERE IS" Peace and Security. Not when they say "let's make" Peace and Security. It's about the dispute coming before us today, the controversy of Zion prophesied in Isaiah 34:8.

We must remember what Paul told the "lost sheep" that were found at Thessalonica, the second largest city in today's financially distraught nation of Greece:
“While people are saying, "there is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come... So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober."
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6

"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end." Matthew 24:6
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December 29, 2016: As Iraq's Army and Kurdish fighters push today toward Mosul to fight ISIS, the "strong arm" craftsmen of Iran have ignored the fight for freedom and instead contributed to Syria's humanitarian horror and crisis. Now they have joined in the UN sham chorus against Israel, but Iran's military is threatening her destruction with words straight from the pit of Hitler's grave: Settlement Activities to Bring About Israel’s End: IRGC Spokesman

"TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) spokesman reminded the Tel Aviv regime of a certain defeat it will have to suffer in a war that may break out as a result of pressing ahead with illegal settlement construction in Palestine, saying it will result in Israel’s annihilation.

Speaking at a meeting in Iran’s northwestern city of Oroumiyeh on Thursday, Head of the IRGC Public Relations Department General Ramezan Sharif said Israel’s decision to continue settlement projects on occupied Palestinian territories will “definitely provoke a reaction”, noting that a possible subsequent war will certainly end in the Zionist regime’s defeat and complete destruction."

General Sharif is a bad son of Lot. Now is the time to call on the Almighty God of Israel. The Psalm of Asaph as shown in Psalm 83 is on the horizon. The enemy uproar with crafty plans is shown in advance by the goal described in Zechariah 14:
O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant — the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah Psalm 83:1-8
PRAYER ALERT December 23, 2016: Since February 7, 2010 I've recorded over 120,000 words of warning of The Quartet's goal to divide Israel. That's equivalent to a 295 page book full of Prayer Alerts and Wake up Calls all leading up to today.

Now, ISIS has called for attacks against a list of churches in America by aspiring assailants of “the sons of Islam” after a Christmas market attack in Berlin. The UN says the situation in Syria ‘remains catastrophic’ where over 400,000 people have been killed after the so-called "Arab Spring" broke out and enraged Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq and then moved on to Syria as Israel’s Sunni, Shiites and Salafists neighbors were infighting, but that internal conflict will greviously turn against Israel. Here's why: despite eastern Aleppo's evacuations, the headlines do not give reverence to listen to the prophet Joel (chapter 3) nor to Zechariah (chapter 12) as nations against Israel cast lots today in the U.N. when Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela replaced Egypt sponsoring Resolution 2334 as Egypt’s Ambassador Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta voted in favor of a Security Council resolution that is so pathetic that it even makes the Temple Mount and its Western Wall below the threshing floor that David purchased "occupied territory".

Insiders like Israel's Deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely said this was coming. I know you are awake or you would not be reading this, but I pray you are 'wide' awake!! In the past ten years, the United Nations' has passed over 220 resolutions against the Jewish state. Now, Resolution 2334 from the U.N. has promised an anti-Bible Palestinian claim for Judea & Samaria, the so-called West Bank and East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. It reverses the U.N. Security Council vote of December 31, 2014. So, it seems the 70 nation summit meeting in France on January 15th might lead to a UN Security Council resolution to formally call for a divide on Israel and a Palestinian state. A major wake up call about this peace and security curse came from The State Department on October 5, 2016. "Houston, we have a problem." Barack Hussein Obama has brought the U.N. against Israel and he could bring a curse on America, if not himself as he closes the door as one of the worst President's in U.S. history wearing the shoes of Jimmy Carter as a closet enemy of the Jewish people, but the bad news is there will be another.

Obama started his cursing in Cairo. If you aks me he set off future chaos back in Cairo on June 4, 2009 by his so-called New Beginning Speech when he said: "For decades then, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It's easy to point fingers -- for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought about by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. That is in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest. And that is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome with all the patience and dedication that the task requires. The obligations -- the obligations that the parties have agreed to under the road map are clear."

It is a dark day too for the Quartet as the UN has stubbornly pushed Oslo's birth pain policies for Israel's division that began in 1993, but despite the deceit in the recesses of the UN back rooms, the light of the world will be seen from this darkness at as light shines brighter as it is getting dark in the evening. The word evening in the Bible is עֶרֶב `ereb and Jeremiah 25:24 is oddly translated by many as pointing toward the Arab people. We must consider this.

Today is Kislev 23. As far as I can tell, this month is named just two times in Scripture. First in Nehemiah 1:1-4 then again in Zechariah 7:1.

The word evening in the Bible in Jeremiah 25:24 is oddly translated by many as pointing toward the Arab people. Today, is Kislev 23. As far as I can tell, this month is named just two times in Scripture. First in Nehemiah 1:1-4 then again in Zechariah 7:1.

Nehemiah's words appear to prophetically point to our time today...
"The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace... When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven."
The accountability of the great trouble and disgrace of this resolution of rape falls squarely on the shoulders of the 15 voting members of the UN Security Council.

Just as Israel prepares for Hannukkah, the nations have come against her once again as they celebrate.

The culprits are not Greeks as they were in the days of the Maccabees, today they are: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as ten non-permanent members including Angola, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela.

For the Security Council, it seems better to coexist with lies rather than be accountable to truth as the nations kick at Israel like a wild donkey braying threats against the covenant of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just as the Greeks and the Roman Legions did years ago.

I was shocked to see the United Kingdom vote in favor of the resolution with Theresa May, the new Conservative Party leader of the UK and supporter of Israel at the helm.

Strangely, just months ago Palestinian Arabs threatened to sue the UK for issuing Balfour Declaration some 100 years ago. So much for the concept of a statute of limitations. The names have changed but the storyline is the same. Alexander the Great conquered the territory of Judea, was succeeded by Antiochus IV Epiphanes who after engaging Egypt, took Jerusalem and desecrated the Temple Mount. That sounds a bit like The Quartet plan in real time. Barack Hussein Obama's last stand was to not to stand at all, a betrayal of a friend by abstaining and not vetoing the U.N. resolution regarding 'so-called' Israeli settlements, but I'm afraid America is not finished with the attempt to divide the Promised Land.

Why? Back on May 19, 2011, in a major speech at the State Department, President Obama laid out his vision for a new chapter in American diplomacy across the Middle East and North Africa. The speech announced a commitment to "di-vide" Israel back to pre-1967 lines. Obama's chaos of "change" is has grown globally since his New Beginning speech in Cairo, Egypt on June 4th 2009. U.S. Abstains as U.N. Security Council Votes to Condemn Israeli Settlements


"UNITED NATIONS — Defying extraordinary pressure from President-elect Donald J. Trump and furious lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration on Friday allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction. The administration’s decision not to veto the measure reflected its growing frustration over Israeli settlements, and broke a longstanding American policy of serving as Israel’s sturdiest diplomatic shield at the United Nations. 

While the measure is not expected to have any practical impact on the ground, it is regarded as a major rebuff to Israel, one that could increase its isolation over the paralyzed peace process with Israel’s Palestinian neighbors, who have sought to establish their own state on territory held by Israel. Applause broke out in the 15-member Security Council’s chambers following the vote on the measure, which passed 14-0, with the United States abstaining. Israel’s ambassador, Danny Danon, denounced the measure and castigated the council members who had approved it. “Would you ban the French from building in Paris?” he told them. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who had scrambled in recent days to stop the measure from coming to a vote, released a blistering denunciation afterward: “Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. and will not abide by its terms,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement. “

At a time when the Security Council does nothing speak loudly against the slaughter of half a million people in Syria, it disgracefully gangs up on the one true democracy in the Middle East, Israel, and calls the Western Wall ‘occupied territory.’” The vote came a day after Mr. Trump personally intervened to keep the measure, proposed by Egypt, from coming up for a vote on Thursday, as scheduled. Mr. Trump’s aides said he had spoken to Mr. Netanyahu. Both men also spoke to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Egypt postponed the vote. But, in a show of mounting exasperation, four other countries on the Security Council — Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela — all of them relatively powerless temporary members with rotating two-year seats, snatched the resolution away from Egypt and put it up for a vote Friday afternoon." The birth pains of the full covenant of the land continues, because this promise is unfulfilled:
“I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you." Exodus 23:31
HalleluYah, most like to think Israel was born in a day on May 14, 1948, but a greater day is coming. God will keep His promise. There is another witness:
In that day from the river Euphrates to the brook of Egypt YHWH will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the lands of Assyria and those who were driven out to Egypt and beyond will come and worship YHWH on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. Isaiah 27:12-13
In a way, I wonder is it possible God using the tribulation we've all seen in Syria and Northern Iraq as a means of His mercy? He always uses man's labor for His good turning evil upside down for His glory. He used tribulation in Egypt to save Israel and bring them out of slavery. He used the horrors of the Inquisition, the Pogroms and ultimately the Holocaust to re-establish the land for the restoration of all Israel as a part of God's plan with the earth with Jerusalem in the epicenter. We must consider what is happening now opens the door to be a witness of the gospel to all nations before the end of the age:
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19–20
The globe is now full of refugees from Syria and Iraq as refugees flood into Europe from across The Middle East. God's ways are greater than our understanding. By His unfathomable mercy, is He saving people from a World War III bowl of fury to come as terror erupts in the Middle East as foretold by the prophets and seen by John?
"The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.." Revelation 16:12-14
Following this battle, whenever it occurs, the greatest earthquake since creation will unfold and great hailstones will crush many in the Middle East (see Revelation 16:17-21). So, you must read Resolution 2334 for yourself.



This is critically important in the unfolding of prophecy of labor pains described in Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 42:14; Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 31:8; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 50:43; Micah 4:9; Matthew 24:8; Mark 13:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 12:1-2. Take note as you read Resolution 2334, the 'The Quartet" roadmap is noted five times in this ridiculous escapade that calls Israel an "occupying power" and under a charade of lies declares the resolution falls under the decrees of the Geneva Conventions that establish international law for civilians in and around a war-zone.

 The Geneva Conventions are about people at war for crying out loud, for that reason and many others, Resolution 2334 is a decree of abomination standing against no only Israel, but this planet, yet God will use it to carry out His promises because God brought the Jewish people back to Israel to accomplish His purposes as declared in Jeremiah 16:14-15. Almighty God used Egypt long ago to show His glory to the world and He mysteriously used Egypt again this week as He prepares to fulfill the words He gave also to Zechariah in Kislev:
"And the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."" Zechariah 8:1-2
God continued on with his promise concerning Israel as He warns against division:
"The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it." Zechariah 12:1-3 
“And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them. And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo." Zechariah 12:7-11
Here's the thing about that cup of staggering that's interesting when you look at the Hebrew word for cup, it's "caph" סַף it can mean gates, threshold, door-keeper. Could the verse that is so familiar imply this?

“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a threshold gate of staggering to all the surrounding peoples.

I've have been shouting to the "nations" here about the season of destruction linked to the Quartet Roadmap from the vision and promises given to Zechariah in postings for seven years now. This is your wake up call for Paul's prophetic warning of the tribulation birth pain tied to "peace and security" that he warned of:
"While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
Resolution 2334... "Calls upon all parties to continue, in the interest of the promotion of peace and security, to exert collective efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues in the Middle East peace process and within the time frame specified by the Quartet in its statement of 21 September 2010."

Next is the French conference which has been rescheduled for January 15, 2016 when the Middle East Quartet (the US, UN, Russia and the EU) will again restate their goal to divide Israel. Resolution 2334 provides an amazing parallel when we consider the Torah portion this week Vayeishev, “He Dwelt” in Genesis 37:1 to 40:23. When Joseph arrived in Shechem, a man asked if he could help him out. Joseph said, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?” Joseph was looking for his brothers in Judea and Samaria, today’s West Bank. Today, Shechem is called Nablus, it’s in the valley below Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal where Israel pronounced the blessings and the curses, its where Abraham arrived at the great tree of Moreh, it's the area Jacob purchased for 100 pieces of silver and the same place Judah's daughter Dinah was raped, it is the home of Joseph’s tomb and Jacob’s well, not a Palestinian State. This week, the territory has shown itself again in the UN’s resolution saying Israel has no right there. Horrifically, Joseph faced death as he continued beyond to search for his brothers, but by God’s providence he was delivered and eventually he not only saved them, he forgave them. What have the nations learned from all this? Apparently, not much. Dividing Israel with the Palestinians has nothing to do with peace in the Middle East. Giving up the Golan has everything to do with chaos and terror as it would open the the door to the pit of hell called ISIS which is breeding across the fence in Syria. Hamas and ISIS have the same agenda, death to Jews and to Christians. The Book of Joshua makes a prophetic observation and the blessing will not fail:
And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. Joshua 8:33
Opinions are a dime a dozen, but I think we might consider the UN vote on the 23rd of December (also Kislev 23) may be a potential time marker, pointing to a coming birth pain if you will as the UN vote was exactly 9 months before September 23, 2017, a Shabbat Shuvah, the time of a special haftarah including Hosea 14:2-10, Joel 2:15-27, Hosea 14:2-10 and Micah 7:18-20...
"And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth." Revelation 12:1-2
When we read of John's vision, it is important to take notice of what Micah says comes after the birth pains:
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from old, From everlasting. Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren shall return to the children of Israel." Micah 5:2-3
This jumps off the page: "Then the remnant of His brethren shall return to the children of Israel." Are you ready for the journey?

PRAYER ALERT December 21, 2016: U.N. Security Council to vote Thursday on Israeli settlements "UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that would demand that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." Egypt circulated the draft on Wednesday evening and the 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday, diplomats said. It was unclear how the United States, which has traditionally protected Israel from U.N. action, would vote. U.S. officials said this month that President Barack Obama was not expected to make major moves on Israeli-Palestinian peace before leaving office. In 2011, the United States vetoed a draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements after the Palestinians refused a compromise offer from Washington. The draft text to be voted on Thursday says the establishment of settlements by Israel has "no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace."

The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in a 1967 war. Most countries and the United Nations view Israeli West Bank settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace. The draft U.N. resolution "stresses that the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-State solution." The "Quartet" sponsoring the stalled Middle East peace process - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations - said in July that Israel should stop building settlements."

PRAYER ALERT November 30, 2016: Just in case you missed this, there were 6, yes six United Nations resolutions today against Jerusalem and the Golan as the UN called on Israel to transfer control of the Golan Heights to Syria. Are you kidding me? I going to throw up. Syria is in a bitter Civil War, Aleppo is dying. Evil is wide awake and it will affect your life one way or another because the UN world is led by deception that follows the enemy of The Lord God of Israel. Check the Almighty's prophetic clock, these six strikes against Israel occurred exactly 70 Biblical years from November 29, 1947. That was THE DAY the UN adopted the plan of partition, a resolution from the "UN Special Committee on Palestine." Isaiah 66:8 arrived on the world scene from and center six months later on May 14, 1948 on day 20 of the Omer count:
"Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children."
Urging Concerted Action to Revive Peace Talks, General Assembly Adopts Six Resolutions on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East
SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION, 50TH MEETING... "The General Assembly today adopted six resolutions on Palestinian and Middle East issues, ranging from Jerusalem to the United Nations special information programme on the question of Palestine. The Assembly adopted a resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (document A/71/L.21) by a recorded vote of 153 in favour to 7 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 7 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, Vanuatu). By the terms of the resolution, the Assembly called for the intensification of efforts by the parties, including through negotiations, with the support of the international community, towards the conclusion of a final peace settlement.

The Assembly also adopted a resolution on Jerusalem (document A/71/L.22) by a recorded vote of 149 in favour to 7 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 8 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Vanuatu). By its terms, the Assembly reiterated its determination that any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem were illegal and therefore null and void and had no validity whatsoever, and called upon Israel to immediately cease all such illegal and unilateral measures. The Assembly also stressed that a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the question of the City of Jerusalem should take into account the legitimate concerns of both the Palestinian and Israeli sides. By the terms of a resolution on the Syrian Golan (document A/71/L.8), the Assembly demanded that Israel withdraw from all the occupied territory to the line of 4 June 1967 and called on all parties concerned to exert the necessary efforts to ensure the resumption of the peace process.

That resolution received 103 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), with 56 abstentions." Also today, the Jerusalem Post reported in a potential response to Jimmy Carter: US lawmakers call on Obama to refrain from action on Israel at UN "WASHINGTON – Congressmen from both parties are issuing support for direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and urging the Obama administration to refrain from taking action at the United Nations over the decades-old conflict. A “sense of” resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on Tuesday night put a majority of members on record in favor of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that lead “to a sustainable two-state solution,” and against efforts at the UN Security Council that would “impose a solution” on the parties. The resolution, which is a nonbinding act that allows the chamber to express its majority opinion, was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-California) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-New York). It comes at a time when US President Barack Obama is weighing whether to join a French effort at the council that would outline parameters for an ultimate peace agreement. Israel opposes such a tactic as destructive to the pursuit of peace."

PRAYER ALERT November 29, 2016 Sixty-nine years ago today on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly in New York adopted Resolution 181, the Partition Plan for Palestine which terminated the "British Mandate" for Palestine and recommended the establishment of an Arab state and a Jewish state, while making Jerusalem an international city and not the city of prayer of the Promised Land. In Biblical counting, the 69 years are 70 years, a prophetic number. I started this commentary on February 7, 2010 with a clip of Jimmy on the on the TV show: "Comedy Central" as Carter spoke with Jon Stewart. Today, sadly here we are again, Jimmy still isn't funny... and this is no joke as he tries to bully Israel as a political moneychanger, still self-promoting the Camp David Accords and the Carter Center. This points to a judgment of Biblical proportion.

JIMMY CARTER TO BARACK OBAMA: RECOGNIZE THE STATE OF PALESTINE "Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who brokered peace between Egypt and Israel at Camp David, has called on Barack Obama to recognize the State of Palestine (as the United Nations refers to the non-member observer state) before he leaves office in January." “It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace. That prospect is now in grave doubt,” he wrote. “I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short. “The simple but vital step this administration must take before its term expires on Jan. 20 is to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership.”

Interestingly, Carter chose to put his statements forth on the Opinion Page of The New York Times titled "Jimmy Carter: America Must Recognize Palestine". Perhaps he is of the opinion, what began in New York must be finished there. Carter repeats that he announced to Congress in 1978: "... I was proud to say to a joint session of Congress, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.”" As evidenced by terror and stabbings over the past years and years before, peace is not sought by many Palestinians guided by the vile of Hamas and Jimmy needs to keep reading Yeshua's teaching in Matthew as He emphatically emphasizes the Word of God and that none of it, not one jot or tittle can be changed in any way:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:17-19
What does the Word of God say about dividing Israel? His words are crystal clear and unchanging on dividing His land. God says He will meet with all nations in the valley of Jehoshaphat who divide the Land of Israel. We can see that the prophet Joel records this promise:
“I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” Joel 3:2
Jimmy, in His unchanging words, God said: "“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession..." so how can Israel be illegally occupying the Promised Land? Jehoshaphat means "Yahovah has judged" and the thing is Jesus says: "I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." That means, in the end, He will return and fulfill the unchanging promise... "I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance." Perhaps, we should prayerfully take note of the time, on a Biblical year basis, year 70 of the nation's birth certificate according to the 1947 UN declaration will arrive on Kislev 16th on December 16th this year. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!!

PRAYER ALERT November 20, 2016: As battles scourge Aleppo and Mosul, The Times of Israel reports of word from a nation of red, white and blue...

Flag of France

Paris peace parley proceeding as planned, France insists "France will hold an international peace conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict next month, French officials said over the weekend, rebuffing several reports claiming that Paris had decided to shelve the planned summit. The reports had quoted French President Francois Hollande as saying that he was facing difficulties convening the summit due to heavy international opposition, particularly from Israel but also from the United States. French diplomats over weekend said the reports were “erroneous.” Hollande never said the confab was scrapped, merely that it was subject to “incertitude” that bears clarification after the US election, they said. “As President Hollande reaffirmed in his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 20, our goal is to convene an international conference in order to help relaunch the Middle East peace process,” a spokesperson from the French Foreign Ministry said Thursday. “We are working closely with our partners and in collaboration with the parties to that end.”"

PRAYER ALERT November 6, 2016: As I've said from the beginning, this commentary is certainly no "thus saith The Lord" about Zechariah's vision of the four horses. I may have it all wrong or at least just partially correct. The colors of the four horses: white, black, red and green may be a simple key to understanding who these are. Here's the thing, the flags of virtually every Muslim nation in the Middle that surrounds Israel includes the colors red and white. Zechariah saw two red horses. Sunday, in Tel Aviv the red, white and blue French flag of the government put Israel on notice.

China's flag is deep red too and they are a member of The Quartet.

YNet News reports: French diplomat: We'll move forward on our peace initiative by year's end "Pierre Vimont, France's special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, said at a conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday that it was his government's intention to move forward on the French peace initiative by the end of this year. “Regarding the peace process, he said that he preferred direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority supported by Arab countries. "The Arab Quartet — Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — has tried to lead such a process in recent months, and it was the basis of my talks with Netanyahu on unity," he said. "Today, the regional opportunity is the important opportunity. I already said that I don't see how (Netanyahu) and (Abbas) can promote anything.” Pierre Vimont, France's special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process may have given us a clue to the prophet's code. Zechariah's horses are a specific color in his vision for a reason, but what is it? 

Incredibly, they include the red and white colors that represent the Muslim nations that surround tiny Israel today. Check it out for yourself...

Zechariah saw his vision on the 24th day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shevat (Zechariah 1:7). Next year, that will be February 20, 2017.

PRAYER ALERT November 1, 2016: Aleppo and Mosul exist on the same plane separated by 383 miles. Today, battles rage in the tale of two cities, as only an 8 1/2 hour drive separates their devastation. The firepower against ISIS is led by Russia to the West in Syria and the United States to the East in Iraq as Moscow and Washington accuse each other of war crimes as civilians hide from the crossfire and the question remains, what will be the end of the conflict and crisis in the Levant? The future of the Shia-Sunni conflict may point toward Jerusalem. What happens in Mosul and Aleppo is important to the future of the planet.


PRAYER ALERT October 14, 2016: France's Proposed Solution To Israel-Palestine Conflict Sidelines U.S.: Invited 19 other countries and the Arab League to peace talks
"France is drafting a 'presidential statement' in order to advance a plan to station international observers at Jerusalem's Temple Mount to ensure that the status quo at the site is preserved, French daily Le Figaro reported on Saturday, quoting French diplomatic sources. French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre said, at an emergency meeting on Friday of the UN Security Council on the ongoing violence between Israel and the Palestinians, that he would circulate a draft statement to the council that would appeal for calm and restraint and for a revival of the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and for maintaining the status quo at the Temple Mount. Statements by the 15-member council must be agreed unanimously. The unrest in recent weeks has been triggered in part by Palestinians' anger over what they claim to be increased Jewish encroachment at the Jerusalem holy site which is revered by both the Muslim and Jewish faithful. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly over the past few weeks that Israel has not changed the status quo on the Temple Mount, nor has it any intention of doing so, characterizing Arab charges to the contrary as “lies” and “deceit.”"
Hear the warnings of Zechariah and Joel, this opposes God's word. France wake up so that you may escape all these things that shall come to pass, don't cast these lots, you'll be drawn to the valley of judgment! Something is up - wake up! The U.S. has lost its way under Obama. Like a puppet, he is pushing Carter's agenda to divide Israel. Carter's favorite media is the New York Times and the Editorial Board of that rag has just published the plan a week ago hidden among the recesses of the paper, it is titled: At the Boiling Point With Israel.

PRAYER ALERT October 10, 2016: Mahmoud al-Zahar co-founded the Sunni Islamic terrorist organization that rules in the Gaza Strip now seeks to restore relations with Shi'ite Iran as a threat to Israel. Al-Zahar: Hamas Seeking to Strengthen Ties with Iran "TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar underlined that the Palestinian resistance group is seeking to reinvigorate relations with Iran. "Relations with Iran are acceptable but they should further enhance and develop," al-Zahar told FNA on Monday. Elsewhere, he referred to Israel's recent aggression against the Gaza Strip, and said, "If the regime is after a new war against the region, (it should know that) the Palestinian resistance, more than what they imagine, is ready to enter a real battle and the Zionists have understood this reality well." In relevant remarks in March, al-Zahar underlined that the Palestinian resistance movement is determined to continue its good relations with Iran. "The movement is trying to improve its relations with Iran," the Arabic-language Al-Arabi TV quoted Al-Zahar as saying. Also, in February 2015, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan stressed that the Palestinian movement would growingly cement ties with Iran. "Hamas is looking for the expansion of mutual cooperation with Arab and Muslims states as well as those interested in the Palestinian cause across the world, including Iran," Palestine Online news website quoted Hamdan who is in charge of Hamas foreign relations as saying. He noted that Hamas was trying to improve its relations with Iran, and said, "Hamas has age-old relations with Iran and we want to have constant bilateral ties with Tehran"

PRAYER ALERT September 30, 2016: Iran's mullah's are among the world's craftsmen of chaos. Prayer is needed for the persecuted. Iran Arrests 25 Christians in Raid Persecuting Believers for Their Faith in Jesus Christ "At least 25 Christians have been arrested in the Islamic Republic of Iran solely because of their faith in Jesus Christ, it has been reported. According to the National Council of Resistance in Iran, Iranian human rights outlets are reporting that over two dozen Christians were recently arrested during a raid by authorities in the southern city of Kerman. Security officials raided Christians' homes where they confiscated belongings and arrested as many as 25 believers. As of now, there has been no reason given for why the Christians were arrested and their location is unknown. As Iran is ranked by Open Doors USA as the ninth worst country in the world when it comes to Christian persecution, the authorities in the Shia nation are widely known for their hostility towards Christians. Hostility toward Christianity and the Bible is so great in Iran that Christians must worship secretly in house churches. When religious police suspect Christians are gathering to worship in secret, they have been known to raid homes, arrest church leaders, worshipers and confiscate and destroy Bibles and other religious material." "Despite the Iranian regime's hostility toward Christians, Christianity is on the rise in the Islamic Republic. As there are believed to be anywhere from 450,000 to 1 million Christians living in Iran, according to a source close to the Iranian house church movement who told The Christian Post in March that a "great, great number of Muslims are turning to Christ.""

HalleluYah. We are not to hate or fear Muslims. Muslims need Jesus too.

PRAYER ALERT September 22, 2016: One member of the Quartet, the UN has released their think tank version of their global Trade and Development Report, 2016. Great summary in the Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. UN fears third leg of the global financial crisis - with prospect of epic debt defaults Evans-Pritchard's use of the term "jubilee" caught my eye: "The third leg of the world's intractable depression is yet to come. If trade economists at the United Nations are right, the next traumatic episode may entail the greatest debt jubilee in history. It may also prove to be the definitive crisis of globalized capitalism, the demise of the liberal free-market orthodoxies promoted for almost forty years by the Bretton Woods institutions, the OECD, and the Davos fraternity. "Alarm bells have been ringing over the explosion of corporate debt levels in emerging economies, which now exceed $25 trillion. Damaging deflationary spirals cannot be ruled out," said the annual report of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)." The UN report's use of the concept of “finance-led globalization” sounds like a UN version of an antidote for the 3rd seal…

PRAYER ALERT September 15, 2016: Ban Ki-moon is confused. This is because he does not understand God runs the planet, not the UN.
The truth is this, the two-state solution is the risk of perpetual violence and one day your plans will be replaced by the one-state reality of 'perpetual peace' which is the ‘one-state reality' of the Kingdom of God and Messiah that will reign from Jerusalem. The Scriptures, the Word of God Almighty is absolutely clear on this. In fact, perhaps the most famous prayer, The Lord's prayer asks for this:
'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven... For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Did you see it? Yeshua is saying pray for the Kingdom to come to earth in power and glory. The promise given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will never fail. It is the promise of the The Kingdom on earth. It's focus is Jerusalem and all men that oppose this will be required to answer for the words spoken against this covenant... Ban Ki-moon open the Bible, the solution from God is a one state solution. It is the Kingdom of God. Two-state solution to Israel-Palestine conflict at risk of giving way to ‘one-state reality,’ warns Ban "United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for intensified efforts to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to take the difficult steps required to change the current destructive trajectory of the conflict, which is heading towards a “one-state reality” rather than a peaceful resolution. “Twenty-three years ago, almost to the day, the first Oslo Accord was signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation,” the Secretary-General told the Security Council in a briefing on the situation in the Middle East. Let me be absolutely clear: settlements are illegal under international law. The occupation, stifling and oppressive, must end. “Unfortunately, we are further than ever from its goals. The two-state solution is at risk of being replaced by a one-state reality of perpetual violence and occupation,” he warned."

PRAYER ALERT September 4, 2016: The craftsmen of chaos, those skillful to destroy (as warriors) are described in depth in the original commentary. One of them North Korea, continues their threat of nuclear oblivion. They are just like Iran the nation that calls America, not the land of the free, bit the land of the "Great Satan". US: North Korea shrinks warning time for nuclear attack on America "Washington (CNN)The US government is increasingly concerned that advances in North Korea's weapons program have dramatically decreased the warning time for a nuclear attack on America or its allies, according to US officials. The regime's aggressive testing of medium- and long-range missiles -- as well as its nuclear testing -- makes North Korea now a "practical" threat and no longer a "theoretical" threat, in the words of one US official familiar with the latest US intelligence thinking. Significantly, North Korea no longer cares if the world sees its test failures, according to the latest analyses, allowing Pyongyang to more openly, aggressively and repeatedly test all of the key components needed for an attack." RELATED: North Korea claims missile test success

PRAYER ALERT August 10, 2016 Again, as noted in the original post Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet the "craftsmen of chaos" include the nation of Iran and it seems the U.S. Congress is now awakening to that reality. Congress ‘Disgusted’ With White House Lies on Iran ‘Ransom’ Payment
"Members of Congress expressed “disgust” with the White House this week and are demanding Obama administration officials come clean about the circumstances surrounding a $400 million cash payment to Iran that is widely perceived as a ransom for the recent release of U.S. hostages, according to conversations with multiple lawmakers and senior congressional sources.Members of Congress expressed “disgust” with the White House this week and are demanding Obama administration officials come clean about the circumstances surrounding a $400 million cash payment to Iran that is widely perceived as a ransom for the recent release of U.S. hostages, according to conversations with multiple lawmakers and senior congressional sources."
PRAYER ALERT July 11, 2016: Its official. The Pharaoh is moving back into the picture with a hard heart. 

Jerusalem Post: Egyptian foreign minister visits Jerusalem to push Cairo-backed diplomatic process
"The Egyptian foreign minister said his visit was a continuation of Egypt’s long-standing sense of responsibility toward peace for itself, and for all the peoples of the region, “particularly the Palestinians and Israelis who have suffered for generations due to the conflict between them.” Shoukry said his visit comes, as did his visit last month to Ramallah, within the context of Sisi’s call in May for a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. “Such a monumental achievement will have a far reaching and dramatic and positive impact on the overall situation in the Mideast region,” he said. Shoukry said that the goal is to achieve a two-state solution through negotiations between the parties, one that will reach an agreement based on “justice, legitimate rights and a mutual willingness to coexist peacefully in two neighboring independent states in peace and security.” Since the breakdown of Israeli- Palestinian negotiations in April 2014, he said, the situation has been constantly deteriorating on all levels: humanitarian, economic and security. “The plight of the Palestinian people becomes more arduous every day, and the dream of peace and security moves further out of the Israeli people’s reach as long as the conflict continues. It is no longer acceptable to claim that the status quo is the most we can achieve of the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples,” he stated, adding that the current situation in the region is neither “stable nor sustainable.” Netanyahu greeted his guest by saying that the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty signed 37 years ago, followed by the Jordanian-Israeli accord in 1994, have been the cornerstones of stability in the region and “are critical assets for our countries.” He once again called on the Palestinians to enter direct negotiations, saying that they should follow the “courageous example of Egypt and Jordan. This is the only way we can address all the outstanding problems between us, and turn the vision of peace based on two states for two peoples into a reality.”"
PRAYER ALERT July 4, 2016: If you doubt the craftsmen of chaos have a link to the division of the Promised Land of Israel. Think again... Iranian commander warns there are 100,000 missiles ready to strike Israel "The deputy commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard declared Friday that there are tens of thousands of missiles in Lebanon ready to strike Israel. "Hezbollah has 100,000 missiles that are ready to hit Israel to liberate the occupied Palestinian territories if the Zionist regime repeats its past mistakes," Gen. Hossein Salami was quoted as saying by Tasnim, according to Reuters. The Jerusalem Post reported that Salami warned that Israel’s occupied territories could come under attack if they make the “wrong move.” “Today, the grounds for the annihilation and collapse of the Zionist regime are (present) more than ever,” he said. Additionally, state TV reported Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani accused the West of trying to exploit differences between Shiite and Sunni Muslims to divert attention from the Palestinian-Israel conflict. "The global arrogance (the United States and its allies) wants to create discord among Muslims ... Unity is the only way to restore stability in the region," Rouhani said. "We stand with the dispossessed Palestinian nation." Rouhani spoke as tens of thousands of Iranians joined in an anti-Israel rally to express support for the Palestinians. The demonstrators shouted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" and while they burned an Israeli flag."

PRAYER ALERT June 6, 2016: Just musing but I wonder if this Moscow trip might be aimed at an attempt to gain Putin's support for Israel to retain the security of the Golan as part of an "acceptable" amendment to the Arab State initiative... Pomp, fanfare and rain welcome Netanyahu in Moscow There' an interesting tie to 1967 in the press release: "In addition, Netanyahu is marking some 25 years of Israeli-Russian diplomatic relations, which were reestablished in January 1992, after the Soviet Union severed them in the wake of the 1967 Six Day War." It seems Psalm 83 may be unfolding before our eyes with the help of The Quartet: Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution Tough, France Says Post Conference
"Foreign ministers from 26 countries gathered in Paris to participate in the French-led peace initiative. This included the Middle East Quartet — the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — the Arab League, the U.N. Security Council and about 20 countries. However, there was no Israeli or Palestinian participation."
Part of the prophecy in Psalm 83 has been in the headlines for a long time: “They take crafty counsel against thy people. And consult together against thy hidden ones.” In verse 5, the Psalm reveals: “For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant.” Verses 6-8 list the names of the members of the Arab coalition. Who are they? They are the Arab nations that are today plotting to divide Israel led by Edom (Saudi Arabia). In Leviticus 25:23, we find: “And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.” But why? Because in Isaiah 8:8, God claims the land for Yeshua, referring to it as “thy land, O Immanuel.” The land belongs to God for a special Kingdom purpose, and He has entrusted it to the Jewish people of Israel, reserved because He is enabling the Jewish people in a special way, preparing the land and paving the way for the King of Kings.
“... and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed”. Genesis 12:3
PRAYER ALERT July 1, 2016 This is big. This is HUGE. The Quartet (the UN, the United States, the Russian Federation and the European Union) took another big step in its goal to re-write the Biblical promise given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as they released their report through the U.N. today.
"The Quartet reiterates that a negotiated two-state outcome is the only way to achieve an enduring peace that meets Israeli security needs and Palestinian aspirations for statehood and sovereignty, ends the occupation that began in 1967, and resolves all permanent status issues."
PRAYER ALERT June 3, 2016: Let's see if we can piece this together... Today, the major powers of the world have gathered for the Mid East Paris Peace talks first announced April 22nd began. They were delayed past Memorial so that US Secretary of State John Kerry could participate but 'lo and behold' this is the headline news as a state of emergency has been declared by French President Hollande: Paris art museums to close as floodwaters swamp French capital
"PARIS – The rising waters of the Seine overflowed riverbanks, roads and rail tracks across Paris on Thursday, forcing authorities at the Louvre to do something they have not done in generations: hurriedly move precious artworks to higher ground. Water levels at the famous river that winds through the French capital are expected to peak Friday sometime about noon. Paris police upgraded their flood warning Thursday to "orange" — the second-highest level — for areas near the Seine, which means they believe the floods could have "a significant impact" on buildings and people. The Louvre Museum announced it will be closed Friday to remove artworks from rooms threatened by the rising waters, preventatively shifting them upstairs. Its most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," is staying put on an upper floor."
PRAYER ALERT April 22, 2016: Today, Passover begins at sunset and The Times of Israel reports on a potentially big story that may come into play during the Omer count up to Shavuot (Pentecost)... France announces global summit on Israel-Palestinian peace process
"France will host a meeting of ministers from 20 countries on May 30 to try and relaunch the Israel-Palestinian peace process, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced on Thursday. He told the international press, however, that Israel and the Palestinian officials would not be invited to the meeting, which will take place in Paris. Ayrault said the aim was to prepare an international summit in the second half of 2016, which would include the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. "Ayrault said the aim was to prepare an international summit in the second half of 2016, which would include the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. “We cannot do nothing,” Ayrault said. “We have to act before it’s too late.” He added: “I am not naive, I am perfectly sincere… There is no alternative — the other option is fatalism and I reject that.” He said the discussions would be based on the 2002 Saudi peace initiative — approved by the Arab League but not Israel — which called on the Jewish state to withdraw from Palestinian territory captured in the 1967 Six Day War, including East Jerusalem, in exchange for a normalization of ties with Arab countries. It also outlined the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and envisaged a “just solution” of the refugee issue."
As you read that headline you may be thinking, well finally someone is doing something about peace. But perhaps you should ask, why the hardened heart? After all, God promised the land to Abraham and all of his descendants. My question: Is the Covenant Maker up to something during this appointed season of the Jubilee? The French have had their hand in the Middle East since Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 which separated Egypt from the Ottoman Empire. From there the French moved north to Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon. Some Biblical historians even say that the French people may have descended from Reuben. They identify the Reubenites with the Franks who settled in France. If so, could Reuben's life have an impact of today's events? The storyline is eerie to say the least. The descendants of Reuben, also acted in some problematic ways. For example, in Numbers 32 they declined to settle within the Promised Land. Their leaders told Moses: "we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan". Moses accused them of a lack of confidence in God's promises for the land. Isn't this the headline today? France's leadership has no confidence in the promise of the land given to Abraham's descendants. They ignore the boundaries promised by God Almighty by the title deed of the 'Promised Land' which is the Bible.

Jacob gave a prophetic picture of the future of Reuben's clans. In his last words, Jacob accuses Reuben of being unstable as water, meaning that he has no respect for boundaries or borders. Jacob tells his son:
"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the first fruits of my virility, excelling in prominence, excelling in power. Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel..." Genesis 49:3-4
In the wilderness journey, two men of the tribe of Rueben, Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben joined forces with Korach. These two men attempted a power play against Moses and Aaron. The result was bad, very bad. The earth swallowed them alive. Reuben's descendants are as confused as their ancestors. Heed the warning from Jacob, be very careful France, François Hollande your leader and Mahmoud Abbas are plotting the wrong path.

PRAYER ALERT April 5, 2016: As Russia begins to ship its S-300 missile system to the craftsmen of Iran, the Persian nation has deployed “commandos” to Syria just as the U.S. Navy in the Arabian Sea intercepted an arms shipment from Iran thought to be for Shiite Houthi fighters in Yemen. At the same time, North Korea's craftsmen released a propaganda video showing multiple missile strikes on Seoul following a similar threat against Washington DC two weeks ago. Meanwhile, peace pressure has mounted from members of The Quartet with the Palestinians leaning on France. The Times of Israel has reported: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he was willing to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “any day,” after the PA leader called for a meeting during an interview last week on Israeli television." Abbas will likely no show the invite despite his statements. "Abbas told Channel 2’s “Uvda” program last week that he was willing to meet the prime minister to reach a peace agreement." Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

PRAYER ALERT March 4, 2016: I know that the Zechariah connection with the craftsmen seems really strange but as member nations of The Quarter like France who has now linked to ancient Egypt continuing to press for the division of Israel through "peace", the craftsmen always stand ready to bring chaos to their doorstep.

N. Korea leader orders nuclear arsenal on 'standby'
"Seoul (AFP) - Leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered North Korea's nuclear arsenal to be readied for pre-emptive use at any time, in an expected escalation of military rhetoric following the UN Security Council's adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. The North's nuclear warheads must be deployed "on standby so as to be fired at any moment," Kim was quoted as saying by the North's official KCNA news agency on Friday. He also warned that the situation on the divided Korean peninsula had become so dangerous that the North needed to shift its military strategy to one of "pre-emptive attack"."
The craftsmen are defined and described in the original commentary Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet.
"These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.” Zechariah 1:21
PRAYER ALERT January 23, 2016: Two days after meeting with the Arab League in Egypt and promoting the division of Israel, China's President Xi Jinping met with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a "craftman" of Iran and this headline is the result: Iran, China Agree To $600 Billion Trade Deal After Sanctions Lifted
"Iranian President Hassan Rohani says Iran and China have agreed to expand bilateral relations and boost trade to $600 billion over the next 10 years. Rohani made the announcement following January 23 talks in Tehran with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first major world leader to visit the Islamic republic since the easing of international sanctions on January 16 under a deal between Tehran and global powers aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program. Xi met later with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was quoted as saying that "Tehran seeks cooperation with more independent countries" because "Iranians never trusted the West."
PRAYER ALERT January 21, 2016: At the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt today Quartet member China again calls for the division of Jerusalem and Israel. Chinese President Xi Jinping: East Jerusalem as capital of Palestinian state
"China has lent its support to the establishment of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital and that such state should be established based on the 1967 borders and enjoy full sovereignty. Chinese President Xi Jinping made the remarks during an address at the Arab League’s headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Thursday." "China firmly supports the Middle East peace process and supports the establishment of a State of Palestine enjoying full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital. We are in favor of putting in place a new mechanism to promote peace as to the Middle East question, and support efforts made by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation toward this end”, Xi told the Arab League’s delegates."

PRAYER ALERT January 6, 2016: Iran and North Korea, the "craftsmen of chaos" are front and center. North Korea claim of hydrogen bomb test draws global condemnation
"North Korea said it had achieved 'perfect success' in a hydrogen bomb test. US geological agencies recorded a 5.1 magnitude seismic event on Wednesday at the reported test site. Beijing — North Korea announced today it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb, a claim that – if verified – is sure to reignite international pressure to check Kim Jong-un’s nuclear ambitions. Pyongyang issued its announcement after the US Geological Survey and other agencies reported a shallow earthquake near North Korea’s main nuclear test site on Wednesday morning. A news anchor on government-run Korean Central Television said the test was a “perfect success” and involved a “miniaturized” hydrogen bomb."
Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran - CBS News
"RIYADH - A top Saudi official announced Sunday his country had cut ties with Iran over the torching of its embassy in Tehran by protesters angry at the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric. At a news conference, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Iran's diplomats and all related personnel had been given 48 hours to leave the kingdom, according to Reuters. Al-Jubeir said his country's official position is that the Iranians are trying to undermine Saudi Arabia's security. The tensions began in earnest after Saudi Arabia announced the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others, including three other Shiite dissidents and a number of al Qaeda militants. It was largest mass execution carried out by the kingdom in three and a half decades."
Unmixed Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran seems to fit Daniel's prophecy like a hand made shoe of the latter day kingdom of feet of iron and clay that will not mix. After all Iran is one of the world's top iron producers and Arabia, well there not much there to be seen but sand.
" And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." Daniel 2:41-44
Today's Sunni Shiite conflict is the same conflict reported on in the PRAYER ALERT November 19, 2011 in which it was noted that Arutz Sheva reports Iran and Saudis Acting Out Ancient Messiah Prophecy?
"Jews familiar with the ancient Yalkut Shimoni notice recent tensions between Iran, Saudi Arabia match prophecy regarding the Messiah."
PRAYER ALERT December 16, 2015: Every time I see the words "peace and security" in any news headline, much less the Jerusalem Post, I red-line in to the warning from Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 that is noted above... "While people are saying, "Peace and security," destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief." Israel holds ‘substantive’ talks with Quartet delegation that included EU reps
"Israeli officials met with a high-level Quartet delegation this week, despite the fact that it includes an EU representative with whom Israel has said it will not meet on a bilateral basis to discuss the diplomatic process with the Palestinians. The Quartet delegation, with representatives from the US, Russia, the EU and the UN, arrived Monday with the aim of trying to de-escalate the situation and find a way to move the diplomatic process forward. The delegation met in the Prime Minister’s Office Monday night for a meeting the Foreign Ministry said was “long, substantive and serious” – discussing ways to stop the violence, restore security, stop incitement and look for future horizons in the diplomatic process. Quartet representatives met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy Yitzhak Molcho, Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold and head of the Foreign Ministry’s International Division, Roni Leshno-Yaar. According to a statement put out by the Foreign Ministry, both the Quartet and Israel agreed that a continuation of a diplomatic process is the best guarantor for peace and security."
Wake Up Call November 9, 2015: Normally, I would not refer you to a graphic video like this but the Bible warns us that evil will be unleashed. This horror must be discerned as a: Palestinian Woman Tries to Stab Israeli Guard "Israeli authorities have released chilling footage of a Palestinian woman trying to stab an Israeli security guard. The guard was checking the woman’s ID in a West Bank settlement when she suddenly pulled a knife out of her bag and lunged at him. Fortunately, the guard only suffered minor injuries, Gretchen Carlson said on “The Real Story” this afternoon." Wake Up! The war continues today between Jezebel and Elijah. The warning of Joel 3:1-2 is don't tolerate those that seek to divide God's land. Those that will cast lots for Judah are a spiritually castrated people that unwittingly hold the knife of Jezebel. Her slashing will bring a curse to the doorstep as her killing spirit is unleashed across the planet. Pray for protection. Don't mute the voice of the Bible's prophets or Yeshua will oppose you! Jezebel is on a dark mission. She was the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and she went and served the false god Baal and worshipped him... (read 1Kings 16:31 and 1Kings 18:13).
But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel... Revelation 2:20
Jezebel introduced the worship of Ashtoroth to Israel. Jezebel uses position and power to seek to dominate. In Hebrew, Jezebel means "without co-habitation". She will not live or "co-habit" with those she cannot dominate and control. The Jezebel spirit seeks to establish control without the actual use of physical force, at least initially. Jezebel seeks to be close to leaders and use their power. She likes to use the influence of others to accomplish her goals and control just as the UN resolutions seek to control Israel. In 1Kings 21:8 we see:
"Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles of the city."
This is how Jezebel works, she prefers to remain in the background, while she manipulates situations and leaders like the controlling, self righteous UN Security Council. Jezebel’s greatest enemy is God's covenant for the Promised Land and the Kingdom of God. As Jezebel opposed Elijah, so Jezebel today opposes The Jewish right to Israel. In her heart, she despises their heritage. Jezebel gained control of Naboth’s vineyard under the pretense of religion. She uses Islam as a religion of peace because she needs it. Remember the adulterous woman in Proverbs 7? She first lured the foolish young man with, "I’ve just finished making my peace offerings, and have come looking for you." We must be like Elijah to see and oppose her deception of peace but we can't withdraw. When Jezebel threatened Elijah, he turned and fled to the desert. He watched fire fall from heaven and defeat his enemies, yet when her evil threatened, he lost his way and ran away from the problem. This is the example of Jezebel’s powerful demonic "spirit" to intimidate, create fear, and cause men of God to withdraw. Jezebel can steal your vision, she even intimidated Elijah. There will be another showdown like Mt. Carmel when Elijah called down fire from heaven and defeated the priests of Baal. All Israel fell in repentance, worshipping the 'One' true God and His name is not Allah.

PRAYER ALERT October 17, 2015: France advancing plan to deploy international observers at Jerusalem's Temple Mount France plans to invite representatives from the Arab League to talks with an eventual goal to lead a Palestinian statehood resolution at the UN Security Council. Hear the warnings of Zechariah and Joel, this opposes God's word. France wake up so that you may escape all these things that shall come to pass, don't cast these lots, you'll be drawn to the valley of judgment!

PRAYER ALERT October 16, 2015: France urges stepped up international action to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict
"France's U.N. ambassador is calling for stepped up international action to find a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Francois Delattre told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that it's crucial the two-state solution does not fall apart, given the risk that Islamic State extremists might take up the Palestinian cause "with the consequences we can imagine." He said France is drafting a council statement that will appeal for restraint by all parties and maintaining the status quo at Jerusalem's holiest site. Delattre called for the U.S., U.N., EU, Russia and key Arab nations to meet and work on confidence-building measures to ease tensions, support Palestinian reconciliation and draw up "guarantees and compensation that each party will need" in order to sign a peace agreement."
Hear the warnings of Zechariah and Joel, this opposes God's word. France wake up so that you may escape all these things that shall come to pass, don't cast these lots, you'll be drawn to the valley of judgment!

PRAYER ALERT October 14, 2015: France's Proposed Solution To Israel-Palestine Conflict Sidelines U.S.: Invited 19 other countries and the Arab League to peace talks
"France is drafting a 'presidential statement' in order to advance a plan to station international observers at Jerusalem's Temple Mount to ensure that the status quo at the site is preserved, French daily Le Figaro reported on Saturday, quoting French diplomatic sources. French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre said, at an emergency meeting on Friday of the UN Security Council on the ongoing violence between Israel and the Palestinians, that he would circulate a draft statement to the council that would appeal for calm and restraint and for a revival of the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and for maintaining the status quo at the Temple Mount. Statements by the 15-member council must be agreed unanimously. The unrest in recent weeks has been triggered in part by Palestinians' anger over what they claim to be increased Jewish encroachment at the Jerusalem holy site which is revered by both the Muslim and Jewish faithful. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly over the past few weeks that Israel has not changed the status quo on the Temple Mount, nor has it any intention of doing so, characterizing Arab charges to the contrary as “lies” and “deceit.”"
Hear the warnings of Zechariah and Joel, this opposes God's word. France wake up so that you may escape all these things that shall come to pass, don't cast these lots, you'll be drawn to the valley of judgment!

PRAYER ALERT May 21, 2015: In this mind-blowing interview with Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic, Obama the ultimate narcissist reveals he thinks that the Iran nuclear negotiation is about his own "personal interests"...
“In addition to our profound national-security interests, I have a personal interest in locking [the nuclear deal] down.”
If I may suggest it, you should read the entire Atlantic report that not only addresses the nuclear deal With Iran but the war Against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the President’s relationship with Israel and the Jewish people.

PRAYER ALERT May 17, 2015: Houston, we now have a big problem... the next two years of Obama will be dangerous as Saudi Arabia Promises to Match Iran in Nuclear Capability
"Over the last decade, the Saudi government has financed nuclear research projects but there is no evidence that it has ever tried to build or buy facilities of the kind Iran has assembled to master the fuel cycle, the independent production of the makings of a weapon. Still, the Saudis have given the subject of nuclear armament more than passing thought. In the 1980s they bought a type of Chinese missile, called a DF-3, that could be used effectively only to deliver a nuclear weapon because the missiles were too large and inaccurate for any other purpose. American officials, led by Robert M. Gates, then the director of the C.I.A., protested. There is no evidence the Saudis ever obtained warheads to fit atop the missiles. Mr. Obama met with Saudi princes in the Oval Office on Wednesday — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — who will most likely moderate their criticisms of his administration while talking directly to the president. Mr. Obama is expected to offer them and the other Arab states some security assurances, although not as explicit or legally binding as the kind that protect American treaty allies, from NATO to Japan to South Korea. But Mr. Obama will have a difficult time overcoming the deep suspicions that the Saudis, and other Arab leaders, harbor about the Iran deal. Several of them have said that the critical problem with the tentative agreements, as described by the White House and Secretary of State John Kerry, is that they assure nothing on a permanent basis. Prince Turki, while in Seoul, went further. “He did go behind the backs of the traditional allies of the U.S. to strike the deal,” he said of Mr. Obama during a presentation to the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a South Korean research organization. Although “the small print of the deal is still unknown,” he added, it “opens the door to nuclear proliferation, not closes it, as was the initial intention.” Prince Turki argued that the United States was making a “pivot to Iran” that was ill advised, and that the United States failed to learn from North Korea’s violations of its nuclear deals. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” he said, using the past tense."
This has been going behind the scenes for awhile: Saudi nuclear weapons 'on order' from Pakistan
"Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran's atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than the Islamic republic. Earlier this year, a senior Nato decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery."
The Chinese have helped the Saudis since 1988... Saudi Arabia Special Weapons
"Saudi Arabia does not have weapons of mass destruction. It did, however, buy long-range CSS-2 ballistic missiles from China in 1988. More recently, Saudi officials have discussed the procurement of new Pakistani intermediate-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Some concern remains that Saudi Arabia, like its neighbors, may be seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, apparently by purchase rather than indigenous development. While there is no direct evidence that Saudi Arabia has chosen a nuclear option, the Saudis have in place a foundation for building a nuclear deterrent. Saudi Arabia may trigger a new kind of arms race in the Middle East, as leaders insist the gulf state wants to match Iran's newly established nuclear enrichment capabilities. The nuclear deal between the P5+1 and Iran may allow Tehran to keep up to 5,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium. Saudi delegates to a rare summit of Gulf leaders with President Obama made it clear that the deal means they feel they must match Iran's level of enrichment. "We can’t sit back and be nowhere as Iran is allowed to retain much of its capability and amass its research," one Saudi delegate who wished to remain anonymous told the New York Times before the meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began on 14 May 2015. The former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, also told a conference in South Korea, "Whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too." Ironically, the avoidance of just such an arms race was a central argument of the Obama administration in favor of a deal that would include the ability to monitor Iran's program. "It is almost certain that other players in the region would feel it necessary to get their own nuclear weapons," Obama said in 2012. “The Saudi Arabian leadership has said that Saudi Arabia will go nuclear,” former U.S. ambassador Mark Wallace, now the chief executive officer at the Counter Extremism Project and co-founder of United Against Nuclear Iran [UANI] said in April 2015. “That may be as easy as paying for and taking delivery of a bomb from Pakistan.”"
The Saudi missile project is called "East Wind". Al Sulayyil Missile Base 20°43'07"N 45°35'01"E
"In March 1988, two years after the deal was struck, it was discovered that Saudi Arabia had bought an undisclosed number of CSS-2 "East Wind" intermediate range missiles from China. (1) The number of missile varied by source from 30 to 120. The number was later put at 50 missiles and nine launchers. (2) According to Assistant Secretary of State Richard Clarke, the missiles were still not operational in late 1989. (3) However, in early June 1990, Flight International reported that, according to Israeli intelligence, the CSS-2 missiles were deployed and operational at two sites: al-Sulaiyil, about 500 km south of Riyadh and al-Joffer, 100 km south of Riyadh. According to the article, each site houses four to six concrete launch pads and stores approximately 60 missiles."
Psalm 48:6-7 says: "Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind." A woman in travail is also seen in Jeremiah 4:31: "I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child-- the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."" Matthew 24: 7-8 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs."

PRAYER ALERT March 19, 2015: This comes from The Financial Times: From Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay
"The White House hoped a new Israeli prime minister would resume peace talks with the Palestinians. With Netanyahu holding on, the administration is weighing a turn to the U.N. to help force a deal." "After years of blocking U.N. efforts to pressure Israelis and Palestinians into accepting a lasting two-state solution, the United States is edging closer toward supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution that would call for the resumption of political talks to conclude a final peace settlement, according to Western diplomats."
PRAYER ALERT March 3, 2015: Today, is the day before Purim which recognizes the evil plot of Haman to destroy the Jewish people. That plot of the craftsmen of Zechariah is alive today resurrected by the Ayatollahs of Iran, but again a voice like Esther stands up to tell the world of the evil before us. I love the fact that CSpan kept putting up the name of the Prime Minister on the screen continuously as he stood at the podium to standing ovations. Benjamin Netanyahu gives a powerful Hebrew witness in more than one way. Every newscaster that repeats that name over the next few days will be speaking Hebrew without a thought saying:
"Son of the right hand" "a gift from God".
Just a coincidence? There are no coincidences.
"My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9

I encourage you to read the transcript at The Prime Minster's Office.

PRAYER ALERT March 1, 2015: As Netanyahu prepares to speak to Congress on March 3rd, it seems that the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal being reported by the Associated Press from Geneva on Monday are the same as those proclaimed recently by Israel's Prime Minister, the same issues that were scoffed at by the Obama Administration. AP reports Iran is to be allowed to keep 6,500 centrifuges spinning with a sunset clause providing for an end to nuclear inspections in some 10 years. Let's see, that would be 2025 and 7 years later is 2032, so what happened some two days, err I mean 2,000 years earlier and what might happen at the end of the accord with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the P5+1?


Consider the words of Hosea...
Hosea 6:1-3 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
PRAYER ALERT February 28, 2015: WOW! If you want to understand the times and the season and how America fits in you will want to buy America's Controversy With God's Covenant right now.

PRAYER ALERT January 25, 2015: 2Timothy 3:1-5 says: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." You may have read the reports that Israel destroyed a Hezbollah convoy last Sunday along their northern border last week in Syria. Incredibly the group included Iranian General Mohammed Allahdadi. The Times if Israel reports: Iran vows to attack Israel from West Bank
"Deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Lt.-Gen. Hossein Salami vowed Saturday to “open new fronts [against Israel] and change the balance of power.” In an excerpt of an interview with Salami, the IRGC’s number two said that Iran and Hezbollah would provide a “special reprisal” to the strike, according to the Tasnim News Agency, adding that opening a new front in the West Bank was in the works." "“Opening up a new front across the West Bank, which is a major section of our dear Palestine, will be certainly on the agenda, and this is part of a new reality that will gradually emerge,” Salami said in the interview with Iran’s Arabic-language news channel al-Alam. Iran and Hezbollah have issued a series of threats since the strike earlier this week, warning of a “crushing response,” and “destructive thunderbolts.” The dead included an Iranian general and senior Hezbollah commanders, Muhammad Issa and Jihad Mughniyeh, son of slain terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh."
There is a tie to the U.S. as the Times of Israel has also reported: Amid row over DC invite, PM says he’ll ‘go anywhere’ to speak against Iran
"Rebuffing growing criticism from the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated Sunday he would go ahead with his plan to speak before the US Congress in Washington about Iranian sanctions."
Obama said no go to meeting with Netanyahu when the Prime Minster addresses our Congress on March 3rd. Oh... least we forget, Purim is March 5th. It's the day Haman sought to destroy the Jewish people.

PRAYER ALERT January 21, 2015: The Chinese Century
"Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy. This is, and should be, a wake-up call—but not the kind most Americans might imagine. When the history of 2014 is written, it will take note of a large fact that has received little attention: 2014 was the last year in which the United States could claim to be the world’s largest economic power. China enters 2015 in the top position, where it will likely remain for a very long time, if not forever. In doing so, it returns to the position it held through most of human history." "A new global political and economic order is emerging, the result of new economic realities. We cannot change these economic realities. But if we respond to them in the wrong way, we risk a backlash that will result in either a dysfunctional global system or a global order that is distinctly not what we would have wanted."
PRAYER ALERT January 12, 2015: If you started at the beginning of this commentary on Zechariah's Vision and "The Quartet" back in February 2010 you may have thought it odd that I began with comments from former President Jimmy Carter. Well I am doing it again today, it is four years later and here he is again in the headlines: Jimmy Carter: ICC Should Look Into War Crime Allegations From Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
"In a HuffPost Live interview Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter told host Marc Lamont Hill he supports the International Criminal Court looking into Palestinian accusation of war crimes against Israel, saying the ICC should take "an inquisitive look" at those allegations." "About 150 nations recognize Palestine as a nation, as an official state," Carter said. "Although the United States has always been in lockstep with Israel on these kind of matters, it's not a common belief all over the world. I don't believe there's any doubt that the Palestinians deserve to have a nation of their own, alongside a free and protected state of Israel."
PRAYER ALERT December 31, 2014: Many events are converging. Too many it seems for mere chance or coincidence to be engaged. For example, some 2,000 years ago a trial was held before a Roman court before the garments of the innocent Yeshua were "divided" and lots cast for them at His crucifixion. The Young's literal translation of Matthew 27:35 states:
"And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, 'They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot"
Today, Abbas seeks criminal charges against Israel. A week ago he said that Israel: "will be forced to assume its responsibilities as an occupier”. In its last vote of 2014 as noted by NBC: U.N. Rejects Palestinian Resolution Seeking Israeli Withdrawal
"The United Nations Security Council has rejected a Palestinian-backed resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from disputed territories by late 2017, with the United States voting against the measure and five other nations abstaining from the vote."
If you are a Bible student, take notice. If Tuesday’s vote at the Security Council would have gone the other way it would have set a 3 year timeline for a security council mandate of an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders. If you read the Bible you must consider the timeline that has been delayed for now. Yet today, as Israel defended it people from the 4,500 rockets fired from Gaza over the summer, Abbas signed the ICC's founding treaty. It is none other than the Rome Statute, in an attempt to pave the way for a possible war crimes trial against the innocent nation of Israel at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague, Netherlands. The Palestinian Authority is [purportedly] empowered due to their upgraded “Observer Status” at the U.N. in December. With this status granted they join the only other permanent observer, the Holy See of the Catholic Church in Rome to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly. I wonder if all the dots and lines are propped in order with the so-called "Observer Status". After all, according to the U.N.'s own description:
"Non-Member States of the United Nations, which are members of one or more specialized agencies, can apply for the status of Permanent Observer. The status of a Permanent Observer is based purely on practice, and there are no provisions for it in the United Nations Charter."
So, from my own personal perspective, a state status that does not actually exist has mysteriously and illegally allowed the signing of various treaties. Abbas does not lead a "state" he is not even legally the elected leader of the state of mind called Palestine. Abbas was elected to a four year term as President of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005. The term ended on January 9, 2009. Since then, the "Authority" elections have been delayed indefinitely. His ability to join the International Criminal Court sounds as ridiculous as saying healing on the Sabbath breaks the Torah. The NBC News report goes on to state:
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed 20 international agreements on New Year's Eve, including the Rome Statute of the ICC, paving the way for criminal charges against Israel for alleged war crimes committed in Palestinian lands."
A separate report on the ICC filing was also reported today by Aljazeera:
"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a document at a meeting in Ramallah requesting membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Abbas signed the document on Wednesday, a day after a UN Security Council (UNSC) failed to pass a resolution that had aimed to set a deadline for Israel to end its occupation of territories sought by the Palestinians. The president also signed a raft of about 20 other treaties, aligning Palestine with various international organizations. The decision sets the stage for filing a war crimes case against Israel for its actions in Gaza. Israel's President Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to take action following the announcement. The signed statute will now be passed to the UN's secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, who will consider the application to join the ICC. While not guaranteed, legal experts think the process is likely to result in Palestinian membership being approved."
If you think the United States is out of the loop on this whole war crimes process by voting against the occupation deadline think again. The U.N. is in New York and the individual that Abbas had to file the various treaties with under their new "Observer Status" is none other than American James W. Rawley. He is the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory and he is the one to pass on to Ban Ki-moon.

PRAYER ALERT December 23: 2014: Abbas: I’ll cut ties with Israel if UN move fails
PA president says if statehood bid does not pass Security Council, Palestinians ‘will no longer deal’ with Jerusalem "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would “no longer deal” with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace deal fails. “If the Arab-Palestinian initiative submitted to the Security Council to put an end to (Israeli) occupation doesn’t pass, we will be forced to take the necessary political and legal decisions,” Abbas was quoted as saying by the Algerian APS news agency. “If it fails, we will no longer deal with the Israeli government, which will then be forced to assume its responsibilities as an occupier,” he added. The Palestinian draft resolution sets a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final settlement and the end of 2017 as the timeframe for completing an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines."
Palestinians tell ICC they want to join the court Palestinian UN Ambassador addresses members of ICC for the first time, says Palestinians want to join the tribunal to seek justice for alleged Israeli crimes.

PRAYER ALERT December 19, 2014: Today, President Obama signed into law theUnited States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act. The Act defines Israel as a “major strategic partner” of the United States. The act appears to enhance Israel’s strategic relations with the people of the United States and our strategic capabilities noting:
"The turmoil in the Middle East poses a serious threat to United States national security interests and requires cooperation with allies that are willing to work with the United States in pursuit of shared objectives."
But then there is paragraph 3(6) of the act, speaking of U.S. strategy and policy it declares:
"It is the policy of the United States…to support the Government of Israel in its ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated political settlement with the Palestinian people that results in two states living side-by-side in peace and security."
This statement matches the Biblical warning found in 1Thessolonians 5:3. The English Standard Version, The Holman and Revised Standard Version translations of Paul's letter all use the words peace and security in the Tribulation warning:
"While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape."
PRAYER ALERT December 18: 2014: This is big news, please read this and pray for the peace of Jerusalem... Full text of Palestinians’ UN resolution: End the occupation by 2017 "French draft resolution": Israeli Palestinian Peace agreement within 2 years To read the French draft resolution click here.

PRAYER ALERT December 8, 2014: Just t days before the March 24, 2015 deadline for Iran's Nuclear negotiations end, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on elections: With election date set, Knesset votes to dissolve itself
"After only 671 days - less than half of the Knesset's term - MKs vote to disband and go to elections, that will take place March 17, 2015."
PRAYER ALERT November 9, 2014: This is potentially GIGANTIC on the prophetic scene as Turkey's Anadolu News Agency reports Turkish PM terms it 'divine duty to protect' al-Aqsa
"Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said Turkey holds most sacred the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem just as Kaaba in Mecca, describing the protection of the both holy sites a "divine duty." Davutoglu's remarks came as Al-Aqsa complex that represents the world's third holiest site for Muslims was stormed Wednesday by a group of a number of Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces, who stepped in the mosque with their boots on, knocked around Palestinians protesting their presence and threw around the Qurans. "Even if a tiny piece of stone was taken from Al-Aqsa, it will be replaced, rebuilt and revived by our hands," he told the inauguration ceremony of a new metro line in Istanbul on Sunday. Davutoglu said "we are the servants of the soil of Quds," using the Arabic name of Jerusalem, pledging to protect the holy city and Al-Aqsa -- the first direction of praying for Muslim worshippers -- against any attempt to destroy them. Jews refer to the holy compound as the Temple Mount, deeming it to be the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times. After Israeli raid Wednesday, Davutoglu harshly condemned the Israeli offensive on Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it "nothing but barbarity to the core." "We will defend the cause before the United Nations at a Quds contact group meeting as well as all world platforms," he added. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also confirmed to Palestinian leaders that Turkey will start an initiative at the UN Security Council to stop the Israeli aggression in the holy compound. "Ending the attacks by Israeli troops and Jewish settlers in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is of the utmost importance for regional peace," he said in phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Wednesday night."
PRAYER ALERT October 14, 2014: This morning, NPR relayed the news from the BBC that British Lawmakers Vote To Recognize Palestinian State
"Britain's Parliament has voted to support the recognition of a Palestinian state in a symbolic vote that follows a similar move by Sweden." "As we reported earlier this month, Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said his center-left government would recognize Palestine, although he did not say when that would occur. More than 100 other countries have already recognized the Palestinian state."
Here's something to consider, granted this may sound pretty odd but it will not seem strange at all if you have read Jonathan Cahn's new book Mystery of the Shemittah. I highly recommend that you get this important book and read it. You will want to buy one for a friend too. If you look at the map link mentioned in the NPR story, you will see the 100+ countries that have voted like Britain and Sweden. The graphic interestingly points out that 80% of the world population supports a division of the Promised Land... yet the nations that don't (so far) have 75% of the world's cash. The thing is, the graphic is almost a month old and it did not include the numbers from Great Britain and Sweden at the time Paul Scruton, James Ball and Paddy Allen of the Guardian rendered it.

These two European power nations (Britain and Sweden) represent almost 5% of the 2013 Global GDP according the World Bank, so now the population and monetary worth of the planet is at a tipping point on a vote to divide the covenant land. Cahn's latest book will show the critical nature of the pattern of a tipping point. It's important. It may seem strange but... The Guardian report measures cash to people on the votes against Israel. This feels like an Elul thing because Ebola showed up in the U.S. on September 30th when the CDC confirmed the first laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States in a man who had traveled to Dallas, Texas from Liberia. He arrived as Elul concluded and the Shemittah began. Again, you need to read Cahn's new book to get the connection to the word of God and what is may be happening:
"And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." Leviticus 26:25
So what's going down in America when the tipping point is reached? Tragedy and tribulation I am afraid, but revival will come for those who wait. We will soon see a time of great revival.
"Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil — to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him." Isaiah 64:1-4 ESV
And here's another strange coincidence about Ebola. When the Resolution was brought before the UN on November 29, 2012, the first nation to speak against Israel and introduce the resolution was from the heart of Africa. Daff-Alla Elhag Ali Osman said...
“The eyes of all the children of Palestine are directed towards us”, said the representative of Sudan, who introduced the resolution. He called on all States to contribute today “to make history” and to “pave the way for the future” by casting their votes in favour. Doing so would be a victory both for the value of truth and for the Palestinian people themselves, he said." "DAFF-ALLA ELHAG ALI OSMAN ( Sudan), introducing the draft resolution on “status of Palestine in the United Nations” (document A/67/L.28), said the text aimed at taking a historic decision granting Palestine the status of non-Member Observer State. Its preamble reaffirmed the unacceptability of the acquisition of territory by force, and reaffirmed the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including to an independent State of Palestine. Several paragraphs of the text reaffirmed relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly concerning the peaceful settlement of the Question of Palestine, which mentioned, among other things, that Israel must withdraw from the Occupied Territory, including East Jerusalem."
I am not saying there is a CERTAIN relationship BUT now just two years later, Ebola threatens the people of Africa and is now spreading to other nations after it broke out in west Africa when the first cases were seen in March 2014 just weeks before Passover.

I am not making this up, but the plagues in Africa (Egypt) began just before the Exodus Passover some 3,500 years ago. There may be no relationship, but in case you did not know it, the first case of Ebola-Sudan (EBO-S) was detected in Nzara, Sudan in 1976 according to The World Health Organization. The disease is named for the Ebola River near Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo, but the outbreak there was the second. Sudan was the first. The CDC reports: "On August 26, 2014, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Equateur Province. The index case was a pregnant woman from Ikanamongo Village who butchered a bush animal. She became ill with symptoms of EVD, reported to a private clinic in Isaka Village, and died on August 11, 2014. Local customs and rituals associated with death meant that several healthcare workers were exposed to Ebola virus."

God's word contains a dire warning for those that want to divide it:
"For BEHOLD, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and because they have divided My land." Joel 3:1-2
We need to study and look into the Biblical meaning of the Valley of Jehoshaphat if we are to understand this and the Judgment of the Lord. Many people believe that the Valley of Jehoshaphat is ONLY the place of battle, you know where Armageddon will occur, but let's also look at what some big time one Bible scholars have to say because The Lord may be pointing us to the understanding of this judgment not just a place:
"A valley where all nations shall be gathered by Jehovah for judgment [Joel 3:2-12]. At least as early as the time of Eusebius, in the 4th Century A.D., the Valley of Jehoshaphat was identified with the valley of Kidron, so that now Jews, Roman Catholics, and Mohammedans fix the scene of the last judgment here. This identification is only a conjecture, based on the cited passages and Zechariah 14. So far as the evidence goes, no valley actually bore this name." (Illustrated Davis Dictionary of the Bible, P. 378)
The Easton Illustrated Bible Dictionary states:
"This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew the confederated enemies of Israel (Ps 83:6-8); and in this valley also God was to overthrow the Tyrians, Zidonians, etc. (Joel 3:4, 19), with an utter overthrow. This has been fulfilled; but Joel speaks of the final conflict, when God would destroy all Jerusalem's enemies, of whom Tyre and Zidon, etc., were types. The 'valley of Jehoshaphat' may therefore be simply regarded as a general term for the theatre of God's final judgments on the enemies of Israel."
Also, consider this from Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary:
Another Bible scholar agrees: "As 'Jehoshaphat' means 'the judgment of Jehovah,' the valley of Jehoshaphat may be used as a general term for the theater of God's final judgments on Israel's foes."
It's possible that a pale green horse in now loose and running within the confines of the African Union. 

Will another horse, a black one representing a plague that could start running rampant soon? 

Funny thing about the African Union... the flag is green.


PRAYER ALERT August 25, 2014: Radio Free Europe reports: Iran To 'Accelerate' Arming Palestinians After Israeli Drone Downed
"Tehran says it will speed up operations to arm Palestinians in the West Bank in retaliation for Israel allegedly deploying a spy drone over Iran. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of aerospace forces of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said: "We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response." Hajizadeh's comments were posted on the Guards' website on August 25. The warning came a day after Tehran claimed the Guards had brought down an Israeli spy drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site, some 240 kilometers south of the capital."
PRAYER ALERT August 22, 2014: Truth has been turned upside down in this Yahoo News report... In personal plea, top Hamas leader calls on Obama to stop 'holocaust' in Gaza
"You as the leader of the most powerful state in the world, I ask you to call [on] Israel to stop its aggression on Gaza — and to lift the siege and open the cross borders and to rebuild Gaza," said Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News. "This is our demands."
In another interview with Yahoo:
"In the wide-ranging interview, Meshaal repeatedly blamed Israeli leaders for the current round of violence. He deflected questions about the hundreds of Hamas rockets aimed at Israel, making a new pledge to warn civilians in advance of the attacks. "We do not target civilians, and we try most of the time to aim at military targets and Israeli bases," Meshaal said. "But we admit that we have a problem. We do not have sophisticated weapons. We do not have the weapons available to our enemy … so aiming is difficult. We do promise you, though, that we will try in the future and we will warn people … We have given warnings to Israeli civilians. We promise that if we get more precise weapons, we will only target military targets." Asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments this week that "Hamas is like ISIS, ISIS is like Hamas," Meshaal called the comparison a "lie" designed to "trick" the American public. "We are not a religious, violent group," Meshaal said, calling ISIL (the Islamist militant group also known as ISIS) a "totally different phenomenon. We are fighting against aggression in our land.""
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - "Hamas executed 18 alleged collaborators in Gaza City on Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed harsh retribution for the killing of a four-year-old boy by Palestinian mortar fire."


PRAYER ALERT July 8, 2014: If you are wondering why hundreds of rockets have been fired at Israel of the past week, think about this report from Breibart: Muslim Brotherhood Org That Met With Obama WH Calls For Islamic War Against Israel
"The head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group, called upon fellow Islamists and Arabs to declare holy war against Israel “for the sake of Palestine.” According to a translation provided by the Center for Security Policy: Dr. Ali Al-Qaradaghi – the Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars – called on the Islamic and Arab peoples to rise up in all parts of the world for the sake of Palestine and Jerusalem since it is the central issue of the nation, and therefore pressure must be placed on the governments and institutions to carry out their duty towards stopping the Zionist terrorism that is occurring in the land of Palestine, stressing that the peoples are more powerful than they imagine and that they are capable of making the difference if they were to act to support the Umma’s just causes.
Al-Qaradaghi also declared that the Union stands with the popular outburst in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and condemns the crimes against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and cautions the Zionist settlers who are raping the land from targeting Palestinians, and the Umma will not idly refrain forever from aiding their brethren that are being murdered by Zionist hands, which also usurps their lands and money." "In June 2013, Bin Bayyah, the Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, met with members of the White House National Security Council. According to Bayyah, it was not his organization but the Obama administration that had initially reached out and sought a meeting. "We asked for this meeting to learn from you, and we need to be looking for new mechanisms to communicate with you and the Association of Muslim Scholars,” Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council, reportedly said about IUMS. On July 4th, Qaradawi & Qaradaghi issued a joint statement calling for the destruction of Israel."
PRAYER ALERT June 11, 2014: In a 'craftsman' terror state, North Korea, there is a new report sadly reminding us of the words of prophecy seen in Luke 21:12: Jeffery Edward Fowle, American, Arrested In North Korea For Having Bible In Hotel Room
"An American has been arrested and is being held in North Korea for leaving a Bible in a hotel room as he attempted to leave the country, state media said Friday. Little is known about the man, who was identified in Korea as Jeffrey Edward Fowle. The exact spelling of his name is unknown. "The U.S. citizen, who entered the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] on April 29 as a tourist, engaged in activities that were in breach of DPRK's laws," the official Korean Central News Agency said. Officials at the State Department said they were aware of the situation, but did not have any other information to provide. In a briefing Friday, spokeswoman Marie Harf said she could not share any other news about Fowle for "privacy reasons." Fowle is the third American to be arrested and detained in the country. In April, North Korea detained 24-year-old Miller Matthew Todd. North Korean officials said he entered the country on April 10 with a tourist visa, but asked for asylum. The country also has been holding Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae since November 2012. In the briefing Friday, Harf said the department had spoken with Bae's family on June 4."
The Voice of the Martyrs has this to request: "Now is the time to make our confession to Kim Jong Un. We declare that we will remain loyal to the one true God and continue to stand with our persecuted family members in North Korea. We know what is happening in North Korea. We commit to telling the world about the crimes of its leader and to do everything in our power to assist our persecuted family there. We invite you to add your voice in support of North Korean Christians by digitally signing the Letter of Confession. We will deliver these letters to North Korea’s representatives to the United Nations." But there is a message of truth not far from this sadistic tribulation, South Korea's Senior Pastor of 100,000 member Manmin Central Church with some 10,000 branch or associate congregations worldwide, Dr. Jaerock Lee teaches and amazing message: [God Is Love] Love Is the Fulfillment of the Law
"The Law written in the Bible was given in the love of God who wants to give us happiness. To the extent that we keep the Law, we are more likely to be children of the Light, of righteousness, and of goodness. That is, we can resemble God who is love."
PRAYER ALERT June 9, 2014: Pentecost has now concluded and news breaks out in Mosul in northern Iraq. Notably, at the conclusion of Purim in 2003, the U.S. led an eventual coalition of over 200,000 troops that moved into Iraq with an invasion from the south. But Mosul is in the land if Nineveh not far from Syria.

In the original post I described what appear much like the 'craftsmen' of Zechariah's vision that spread militant terror and the treat of extreme violence while metastasizing evil and fear around the globe. The Nineveh province is the ancient place first mentioned in Genesis 10:11-12. The place Jonah was sent by God to warn the area to repent and return to God:
"So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Jonah 3:3-4
Insurgents in Iraq Overrun Mosul Provincial Government Headquarters
"The western side of Mosul is now in control of militants, who are advancing steadily southwards in the direction of a major army base where a military airport and top-security prison are located, three army officers told Reuters. Earlier on Monday, Nujaifi made a televised plea to the city's inhabitants to fight militants who have been regaining ground in Iraq and last Friday moved into Mosul." "Several army officers said Iraqi forces were demoralized and no match for the militants from the Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also active across the border in Syria. “Without urgent intervention of more supporting troops Mosul could fall into their hands in a matter of days” said a senior security official from Nineveh operation center, adding that ISIL was only three kilometers from the Ghizlani military camp."
Four years ago, in February of 2010, I wrote in the beginning of this post: "So, what is it about the four craftsmen that Zechariah also saw, who are they? Just look at his plain words... they terrorize and oppose those that come to divide Israel. Who do we see today that oppose The Quartet? Who else but the "Axis of Evil" namely the four nations that actively have it in their heart to threaten world stability:
1. Iraq 2. North Korea 3. Iran 4. Syria
As global pressure to divide Israel increases, these "craftsmen of chaos" will start making a huge impact on world headlines as their disruptive plan unfolds. We need to pray for the people of Iraq, North Korea, Iran and Syria.

PRAYER ALERT May 28, 2014: Following last week's news from Reuters that 'craftsman' Kim Jong Un's North Korea may be close to developing nuclear missile, the Daily Caller reports that the 'craftsman' of the Shiite Islamic leader of Iran, the Ram of Iran' is screaming out his hatred once again as he speaks of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On May 24th this report came out: Iran’s Supreme Leader: Jihad Will Continue Until America is No More
"Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said on Sunday that negotiations over the country’s illicit nuclear program are over and that the Islamic Republic’s ideals include destroying America. “Those (Iranians) who want to promote negotiation and surrender to the oppressors and blame the Islamic Republic as a warmonger in reality commit treason,” Khamenei told a meeting of members of parliament, according to the regime’s Fars News Agency
Khamenei emphasized that without a combative mindset, the regime cannot reach its higher Islamic role against the “oppressors’ front.” “The reason for continuation of this battle is not the warmongering of the Islamic Republic. Logic and reason command that for Iran, in order to pass through a region full of pirates, needs to arm itself and must have the capability to defend itself,” he said. “Today’s world is full of thieves and plunderers of human honor, dignity and morality who are equipped with knowledge, wealth and power, and under the pretence of humanity easily commit crimes and betray human ideals and start wars in different parts of the world.” 
In response to a question by a parliamentarian on how long this battle will continue, Khamenei said,“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.” Khamenei cited the scientific advancement of the country. “The accelerated scientific advancement of the last 12 years cannot stop under any circumstances,” he said, referring to the strides the regime has made toward becoming a nuclear power."
Looking back, if I may digress, our Commander in Chief Barack Obama has had this to say about Islam's ideals:
● “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.” 
● “We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities” 
● “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed” 
● “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” 
● “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.” 
● “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam
There is an white hot explosion on the horizon and its not just Iran. Looking at the one other Shiite majority nation in the Mid East, we need to know that Iraq's terror fuse has been set since our Troops withdrew from the land of Babylon in 2011. We need to pray for these people. This week: Violence in Iraq Kills 38, Raises 2014 Death Toll to 4000
"Attacks across Iraq killed 14 people on Wednesday, the latest in a months-long surge in violence that has left more than 4,000 people dead this year. The shootings and bombings struck in Baghdad and restive parts of the north and west, leaving dozens more wounded, security and medical officials said. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomb exploded in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiyah in north Baghdad, killing at least 16 people and wounding 50, security and medical officials said. Three other car bombs went off in the Amin, Sadr City and Jihad districts, killing eight more people. The blasts were the latest in a trend of militants setting off vehicles rigged with explosives during the evening, when Baghdad's residents visit markets, restaurants and cafes."
In Mosul, Press TV reports: Over 60 killed in bomb attacks, violence across Iraq
"Over 60 people have been killed and scores of others injured in the latest wave of violence hitting Iraq. Two car bomb blasts in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday left nearly two dozen people dead, among them soldiers and medical staff. Elsewhere in the north, multiple bombings rocked the town of Tuz Khurmatu and killed five people, four of them members of a family. Another deadly attack took place in the Shia neighborhood of Kadhimiyah in the capital Baghdad, killing at least 16 and injuring 50 others. Similar attacks claimed the lives of about a score of other people across the country. Iraq is currently witnessing a wave of violence unprecedented in recent years. Official figures show that more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others injured in violent attacks across Iraq in April. According to the United Nations, almost 9,000 people were killed in 2013."
In case you are wondering why Daniel 2:40-43 (NIV) gives us these words: "Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron--for iron breaks and smashes everything--and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay." Here's why... the clay and iron of Sunni and Shiite don't mix:
"Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible for the security crisis and growing terrorism in his country, denouncing the Al Saud regime as a major supporter of global terrorism. The government in Iraq has also blamed Riyadh for the chaos, saying Saudi Arabia is funding and arming militants fighting against Iraqi forces in the country’s western areas, including Anbar province. Takfiri groups, including the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), are reportedly coming to Iraq from neighboring Syria and Saudi Arabia to undermine security in the country."
PRAYER ALERT May 16, 2014: If you have visited this post before you have seen reports on what I dub "the craftsmen". Today, The Washington Free Beacon reports... Iran threatens U.S. Navy with ‘Suicide Missions’
"A top Iranian naval commander said that he is prepared to order suicide attacks, drone strikes, and missile technology to “destroy the U.S. Navy” in any upcoming confrontation, according to an interview printed in Iran’s state-run media. Iranian Naval Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a member of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that Iran is constantly training and preparing for a clash with the United States, according to a recounting of his remarks provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). 
Fadavi revealed that Iran “compensates for its technological inferiority to the United States with a strategy of asymmetrical warfare, including suicide attacks and the use of speedboat and its missile capability,” according to MEMRI. Additionally, Fadavi revealed that on “at least” three occasions senior U.S. officials have contacted Iran to establish a telephone hot line like the one used between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War era. Fadavi’s military threats come amid a massive military buildup by Iran, which claims to have duplicated and armed a downed U.S. drone and to have developed advanced ballistic missiles that could be capable of carrying a nuclear payload."
PRAYER ALERT May 6, 2014: As America's Secretary of State John Kerry defies the Bible as deadline that has now passed for a peace plan, he tells the world that Palestine will be a state one way or another we get this from FoxNews today: Israeli archaeologist says he's found citadel captured by King David
"JERUSALEM – An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancient ruins. The claim by Eli Shukron, like many such claims in the field of biblical archaeology, has run into criticism. It joins a string of announcements by Israeli archaeologists saying they have unearthed palaces of the legendary biblical king, who is revered in Jewish religious tradition for establishing Jerusalem as its central holy city -- but who has long eluded historians looking for clear-cut evidence of his existence and reign. 
The present-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict is also wrapped up in the subject. The $10 million excavation, made accessible to tourists last month, took place in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem and was financed by an organization that settles Jews in guarded homes in Arab areas of east Jerusalem in an attempt to prevent the city from being divided. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as the capital of a future independent state."
Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon gives us this on the other craftsmen of North Korea... Report: N. Korea Has Nuclear Warheads for Missiles
"North Korea has developed nuclear weapons capable of being launched on its ballistic missile forces, according to a new report by a defense analyst. The Obama administration is seeking to hide the fact that North Korea possesses nuclear missile warheads, according to a report by Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon strategic analyst and director for forces policy at the office of the secretary of defense. Schneider’s statement came in a report published April 28 in the journal Comparative Strategy. According to the 16-page report, “The North Korean Nuclear Threat to the United States,” the Defense Intelligence Agency stated in an unclassified assessment made public a year ago that “DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North [Korean government] currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles.” “This is disturbing news,” the report says. “The North Korean regime is one of the most fanatic, paranoid, and militaristic dictatorships on the planet. … While North Korea has long made occasional nuclear attack threats, the scope, magnitude, and frequency of these threats have vastly increased in 2013.” North Korea has in the recent months issued provocative threats to carry out nuclear strikes on U.S. cities and against American allies."
And this comes from Haaretz on the craftsmen from Iran: Iran's frontline has reached Israeli border, declares senior official
"Senior military aide of Iranian Supreme Leader boasts West's failure in Syria is Iran's victory, according to Iranian and Arab press. Iran's front line of defense against Israel is now the southern Lebanese border, a senior military aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader declared last week, several Iranian and Arab news agencies reported on Saturday. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that the coalition of the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Europe had failed to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad. “'This is a strategic failure for the Western, Arab and Zionist front and a big victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran,'” he said, according to Iran's Fars. Consequently, he stressed, Iran's influence had extended far beyond its borders. "'Our frontmost line of defense is no more in Shalamcheh (in Southern Iran), rather this line is now in Southern Lebanon,'" Safavi was quoted as saying, adding that Iran's strategic depth had reached the Mediterranean Sea."
Finally, this report comes from the craftsmen of Syria as reported by the BBC: Lebanon 'expels' Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria
"Lebanon has been forcibly returning dozens of Palestinian refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, activists say. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) expressed concern at the deportation of 41 over the weekend. A spokesman said it had been given assurances by Lebanese officials that the restrictions were only temporary. Human Rights Watch said Lebanon was turning people back without adequately considering the dangers they faced. The policy violated the international principle of "non-refoulement", which forbids states from returning refugees and asylum seekers to place where their lives or freedom would be in threatened, it warned."
PRAYER ALERT May 1, 2014: Repentance was the call of John the Baptist. Like the apostle, the purpose of the post series is to warn that a great shaking is coming to America if we continue to refuse repentance. The Lord is calling America to repent and return to Him right now or the nation and its people will soon be shaken by imminent judgment. Today, 'The National Day of Prayer' was held in Washington D.C. and Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of 'The Harbinger" gave clear warning to America that you need to see. Like it or not, the veil of God's blessing of protection is tearing:
The nation “stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.” “Too much of the church has lost its saltiness to do anything about it." “And now the same biblical signs of national judgment that appeared in the last days of ancient Israel are reappearing on American soil.” "Two hundred and twenty five years ago this week, America as we know it came into existence. On that day, George Washington put his hand on the Bible and gave the nation a prophetic warning..."
"America's hope does not lie in the Whitehouse, not under the Capitol Dome, not on Wall Street, and not on anything else. America's hope lies in the name of Yeshua HaMaschiach, Jesus the Messiah the light of the world, it was for Him this nation came into existence..." "It is time to humble ourselves, it is time to pray, it is time seek the face of God, it is time to turn from our evil ways that He might hear our prayers, forgive our sins and heal our land."
The issues Rabbi Cahn speaks regarding immorality and a “pandemic godlessness of the earth” that are on full display as our leaders are unfit for command and our corrupt government unfit for leadership are addressed in a new book by Jeff Kinley: "As It Was in the Days of Noah: Warnings from Bible Prophecy About the Coming Global Storm" which is a commentary on Yeshua's prophecy that a storm of global judgment is headed our way just as it was in the days of Noah.

PRAYER ALERT April 30, 2014: The State Department says the craftsmen nation of Iran funds terror... Iran terror network prolific, US report says WASHINGTON – Iran continues to arm and finance a terrorist network that extends from South Asia to the Horn of Africa, from Iraq to Yemen, and across the Palestinian territories, the US State Department reported on Wednesday, acknowledging US willingness to nevertheless engage directly in talks with the state over its nuclear program. Much of the report, released annually by the State Department to outline threats of terrorism around the world, focuses on Iran’s expansive efforts to fund and funnel arms to Islamist organizations, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon but operates worldwide.

PRAYER ALERT April 27, 2014: Seriously, is this more 'swift-boating' Mr. Kerry... first it was the book Unfit For Command now The Daily Beast reports on your action Trilateral Commission "closed door meeting"? Will you deny this too?
"If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday." "It wasn't the only controversial comment on the Middle East that Kerry made during his remarks to the Trilateral Commission, a recording of which was obtained by The Daily Beast. Kerry also repeated his warning that a failure of Middle East peace talks could lead to a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. He suggested that a change in either the Israeli or Palestinian leadership could make achieving a peace deal more feasible. He lashed out against Israeli settlement-building. And Kerry said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders share the blame for the current impasse in the talks. Kerry also said that at some point, he might unveil his own peace deal and tell both sides to “take it or leave it.”"
You are flying solo now turning your dream into a nightmare.My suggestion... stay home, be quiet find the $6 billion Hillary's team misplaced, then retire. But we need to pray.

PRAYER ALERT April 24, 2014: Coincidence? Perhaps not, but just as Israel shut down peace negotiations as reported by The Times of Israel... Hamas and Fatah agree to unity government in historic deal the Sun emitted a massive X1.3-class solar flare that temporarily shut down radio communications over many parts of the Earth.
"A seven-year-old rift between rival Palestinian factions seemingly ended Wednesday as officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas agreed to form a unity government and call for new elections. Members of both organizations announced the deal at a press conference in Gaza following two days of negotiations.""PLO official Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior figure in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, said he hoped the deal would be ”a true beginning and a true partnership.”“We have made this Palestinian dream a reality whereby the rift has come to an end and we are reunited,” he said the deal calls for a unity government to be formed within five weeks and for presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections to be called within six months of the coalition taking form, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said.“This has become a national responsibility and a duty,” he said, referring to the reconciliation."
The Guardian reported: Despite confusion over whether Netanyahu or security cabinet took decision, announcement appears to end US-led initiative:
"Israel has hit back hard following an agreement on Palestinian unity by suspending already faltering peace negotiations just days before the expiry of a deadline for the US-brokered process.The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, accused the western-backed Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, of forming an alliance with Hamas, which he called "a terrorist organisation that calls for the destruction of Israel" – and hinted at further retaliatory measures.Netanyahu's comments followed Wednesday's announcement of a unity agreement between Abbas' Fatah movement – the dominant group in the PLO and which governs parts of the West Bank – and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. The US and EU also classify Hamas – whose name means the Islamic Resistance Movement – as a terrorist group, but may review their policies in the light of the unity deal."
PRAYER ALERT April 23, 2014: Hamas, Fatah announce talks to form Palestinian unity government
"(CNN) -- Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah announced Wednesday they've agreed to reconcile -- a development that could see the Palestinian territories under a unified leadership for the first time in years. The sides, wrapping up two days of talks in Hamas-run Gaza, announced they will begin discussions to form a unity government. An interim government could be finalized in the next five weeks, with elections possible by early 2015, Fatah spokesman Fayez Abu Eitta said. Wednesday's announcement comes amid a deterioration of U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel -- talks that Hamas, a militant Islamic group that hasn't recognized Israel, opposed."
PRAYER ALERT March 25, 2014: As we approach Passover, a Biblical memorial to a time when an ancient Pharaoh enslaved and oppressed, we see continue to see that "The Quartet" of nations seeks the basis for a framework to divide the land through a Pharaoh's hard heart two state solution just before Passover, yet Hamas who rules in Gaza seeks to destroy through a "United States of Islam" and establish "the capital of the Islamic Caliphate."

John Kerry I know you have access to a computer, don't you see that the state you seek to establish is in itself already divided between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in Ramallah? Jonathon M. Seidl writes for The Blaze and reports:
"Just last week, Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa, the longtime secretary-general of the Arab League, told the Washington Post that Hamas isn’t really a terror group. That might be harder to deny after he hears the audio below.This is Hamas member and cleric Yunis Al-Astal reportedly declaring, “The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang.” He also predicts that Palestine will become the capital of the new Islamic caliphate. Gateway Pundit offers an excerpt of the most disturbing parts (via Memri). Following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on May 11, 2011.Yunis Al-Astal: The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang.…All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews.…In just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil.…When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate."

PRAYER ALERT March 17, 2014: I'm exasperated, doesn't Abbas pay pensions to terrorists the murder Israelis? I am confounded at what I am reading of your meeting with Abbas, or is "your" world upside down? Are there red signs outside the areas under Abbas control that warn Israeli citizens that by netering their lives could be endangered? Remarks by President Obama and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority March 17, 2014
"And I have to commend President Abbas. He has been somebody who has consistently renounced violence, has consistently sought a diplomatic and peaceful solution that allows for two states, side by side, in peace and security; a state that allows for the dignity and sovereignty of the Palestinian people and a state that allows for Israelis to feel secure and at peace with their neighbors.

This is obviously an elusive goal, and there’s a reason why it’s taken decades for us to even get to the point where we are now. But we remain convinced that there is an opportunity. And I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would look like, involving a territorial compromise on both sides based on ‘67 lines with mutually agreed upon swaps, that would ensure that Israel was secure but would also ensure that the Palestinians have a sovereign state in which they can achieve the aspirations that they’ve held for so long.

Secretary Kerry is here today and has been working diligently with all sides. And as I said to Prime Minister Netanyahu when he was here just a couple of weeks ago, I believe that now is the time for not just the leaders of both sides but also the peoples of both sides to embrace this opportunity for peace. But we’re going to have a lot of details that we’re going to have to discuss. It’s very hard; it’s very challenging. We’re going to have to take some tough political decisions and risks if we’re able to move it forward. And my hope is, is that we can continue to see progress in the coming days and weeks." You can read it all for yourself at Whitehouse.gov In your next meeting with John Kerry, open a Bible and read 1Thessalonians 5:1-6.

With the blink of an eye the world has become a far more dangerous, unstable place with Russia's moves and the conflict you are raising today with a very dangerous Mr. Putin over Crimea's vote (96% in favor) to divide and slide into Russia. Instead of talking about peace and compromise as you do with Abbas while renegade militants in Gaza fire rockets at school children in Israel and Hamas plots Israel's destruction in line with the Charter, you lob verbal daggers of threat toward Russia without public discussion. I wonder, taking your personal shield to be the world's spokesman to propose such incredibly dangerous sanctions to enrage the Russian bear? The failure of the people of Crimea to look west and instead turn east to Russia is a failure of a western diplomatic initiatives. And it's a failure on eliminating Iran's Russian-backed nuclear program. All of this smells like the smoke of a future conflict on the horizon:
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. Isaiah 14:31
No further comment today from this watchman praying for Jerusalem, but I will have another because the sovereign God says:
“I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes, and till He makes Jerusalem praise in the earth.” Isaiah 62:6–7
PRAYER ALERT March 13, 2013: As we approach Purim this week, the headlines are full of Haman-like threats against Israel from Iran aka Persia.

Anti-semitism has reared up in the Ukraine again, it's been baked into the history of Ukraine for nearly 100 years ever since the pogroms that killed as many as 70,000 Jews. At the same time, Hamas terrorist rockets from Gaza rain down fire from heaven on Israeli civilians.

It's clear that we need an Esther to stand up and defend the life of God's people in prayer. Be an Esther!

IRGC Commander: Iran’s Finger on Trigger to Destroy Zionist Regime
Hezbollah Vows to Give Crushing Response to Israeli Aggressions
Palestinian Official: Allah will gather Israelis so Palestinians can kill them all
Military sources reject reports on Iranˈs Missile Cargo for Gaza
Iranian Film Shows 'Nuclear Attack' on Israel
Russia to build 2 nuclear power plants in Iran
Gaza terrorists bombard southern Israel in massive rocket attack

PRAYER ALERT March 6, 2014: CNN has filed this report on more work from the "craftsmen" of Iran:
Israel intercepts ship with weapons headed to Gaza "The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it intercepted an Iranian shipment of "advanced" weapons bound for "terrorist organizations" operating in Gaza.

The Israeli navy stopped a Panamanian-flagged civilian cargo ship and boarded the vessel, the IDF said. The weapons found were identified as Syrian-manufactured surface-to-surface rockets, IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said. It was an Iranian shipment headed for Gaza, the IDF said, citing intelligence. Tehran offered no immediate comment on the incident. According to state media in Iran, military officials denied the reports." We need to pray for the people of Iran, their leaders are monsters.

PRAYER ALERT March 4, 2014: If you read yesterday's prayer alert below, you may be wondering what the President actually said yesterday. The Times is Israel quotes him: “It is still possible to create two states, a Jewish state of Israel and a state of Palestine, with people living side by side in peace and security.”

In the earlier interview last week, Obama was quoted that he would give the Prime Minister some advice from the famous Jewish sage Hillel. Funny thing, you would think that he might consider the words of Paul another Jewish sage that studied under Gamaliel, the great grandson of Hillel. Almost two thousand years ago the Apostle Paul wrote these words:
"Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober." 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 The English Standard Version (ESV) PRAYER ALERT March 3, 2014: Today in the Whitehouse, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sit down with President Barack Obama and according to a report Obama will tell the leader of the nation of Israel"his country could face a bleak future -- one of international isolation and demographic disaster -- if he refuses to endorse a U.S. drafted framework agreement for peace with the Palestinians".

In the article, Obama made a reference to the Jewish sage Hillel who lived and taught in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. Obama, a fan of the Arab Spring does not comprehend the evil it is unleashing. Just look at the status of the uprising that began in Tunisia. They show us unsettling political-religious situations that can quickly swell into violence making the Middle East atmosphere a tender box ripe for the fire of prophetic Biblical upheaval. Tunisia is still drafting its constitution after three years. Libya has not even started. Egypt approved a new constitution, but it's the second Egyptian constitution in just over a year as the nation suffers boycotts and violent protests.

In Bahrain, the King still rules as a despot despite Obama's 2011 rhetoric about rights, freedom and the rule of law. Where's the teleprompter? Today, Yemen only continues in "dialogue" and Syria remains fully engulfed in a horrific civil war that has a massive death toll in civilians from the Islamic infighting and horrific violence than began on March 18, 2011. The UN says more than 140,000 lives have been lost and over 2 million refugees displaced as the conflict in Syria ultimately appears to pit Russia and Iran against the United States and Israel at the center of the world.

Bottom line, today in your house, it is time to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and to pray for peace in America because the God of Israel has set forth a future warning with a bleak future, one of coming disaster and judgment for those that seek to divide His land promise. That warning is ignored and twisted by the Obama Administration as John Kerry now leads "The Quartet" that seeks to divide Israel. But Almighty God says this:
“I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” Joel 3:2
The actual word here is "Yĕhowshaphat". It means "Yah has judged." To borrow a Presidential phrase, "my fellow Americans"... we must consider these words very carefully. Joel is quoting a prophecy from the voice of The LORD God of Israel here. Joel is warning the United States, Russia, The European Union and all of the U.N. about the valley of judgment by YHVH. Why these four? They are the members of "The Quartet" that seek to divide God's Promised Land. Their consort in this crime is the Palestine Liberation Organization. So, we might ask, is it any coincidence that grave trouble wil soon erupt around Russia and intertwine the U.S. as Ukraine mobilizes troops after Russia's 'declaration of war'?

I do know this: in July, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry set a nine month time table, an ultimatum of sorts to conclude the peace talks framework. That nine month is a time that concludes around Passover 2014. It just so happens that on that particular Passover, the world will witness a blood red moon that will repeat on the first day of Tabernacles in 2014 and again on Passover 2015 and on Tabernacles 2015.

What do these blood moons mean, are they a sign like the leprous hand of Moses that are connecting to the words of Joel's warning for a season of disaster to come? Today, only God knows if there is a connection to follow, but we need to be sober and awake on the possibility. It may be years in the making, but we need to know:
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years." Genesis 1:14"

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land." Exodus 4:9 PRAYER ALERT February 6, 2014: As Jews in Israel consider giving up 90% of the West Bank, today's news give us an update on the November 28, 2013 'Prayer Alert' on Iran. It seems they just may be the craftsmen of chaos that the prophet Zechariah describes:
“ ... these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns (governments) of the nations who lifted up their horns (government authority) against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
The King James Bible translation calls them 'carpenters', other translations... blacksmiths. In Hebrew, the word Zechariah 1 uses is "charash" it means "craftsman, artisan, engraver, graver, artificer; skillful to destroy (warriors)". We need to pray for the people of Iran, their leaders are in darkness. In my original post, Iran might be viewed as one of these 'craftsman'. Iran and the P5+1 agreement are in the news once again as the Tines of Israel reports: Iran warns: ‘No boundary to response’ if US strikes
"Senior defense officials in Tehran continue to deride American military option after Kerry says it remains on the table. The US military option is of no care to us,” said Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps deputy commander Hossein Salami in a televised interview Saturday night, according to the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency. “They can use this option but should take the responsibility for its destructive consequences too.” 
“The US can have different scenarios against Iran, including air, missile and limited ground incursion,” Salami added. 
“All these scenarios have been identified, all possibilities have been studied and we have complete intelligence superiority in all these cases and operational strategies.” 
Salami was apparently responding to a January 23rd Al Arabiya interview, in which US Secretary of State John Kerry said that if Iran continues enrichment of uranium beyond permitted levels or breaks out toward a nuclear weapons capability, “then the military option that is available to the United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do.” Shortly after Salami’s interview, Defense Minister Hossein Dehgan adopted a similar tone during a ceremony marking the return from exile of Islamic Republic founder Ruhollah Khomeini, Fars reported. 
“The world’s arrogant powers are today scared of Iran’s high defensive capabilities and for the same reason their style of sanctions and threats are changed everyday,” said Dehgan.This is not the first time senior Iranian defense officials derided the US military threat. Last week, IRGC Navy Commander Ali Fadavi joined the criticism, saying, “The military option is a laughable subject. Even John Kerry’s children snicker at it.” 
Despite the rhetoric coming from Tehran’s defense establishment, Iran and the P5+1 are scheduled to hold a new round of talks in Vienna on February 18 in a bid to discuss a comprehensive solution to Tehran’s contested nuclear program.Iran signed the interim deal in November with the P5+1 group — Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany — and began implementing the agreement on January 20. Under the agreement, which is to last six months, Iran committed to limit its uranium enrichment to five percent, halting production of 20 percent-enriched uranium. In return, the European Union and the United States have eased crippling economic sanctions on Iran."
We need to pray for the people of Iran.

PRAYER ALERT January 31, 2014: Mass Prayer Rally At Kotel Against 'Kerry's Decrees'
A massive gathering brought thousands together at the Kotel (Western Wall) Thursday night, in prayers beseeching G-d to "cancel the decrees" of US Secretary of State John Kerry, whose peace plans would create an Arab capital in Jerusalem.

The prayer rally, which was held under the title "prayer for the redemption of the people of Israel and their portion," was attended by Jewish Home coalition members including Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel, Deputy Religious Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, MK Orit Struk and MK Moti Yogev.Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the Bnei Akiva yeshivas, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba Rabbi Dov Lior and Chief Rabbi of Tzfat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu led the prayers, asking G-d to "give strength, courage, truth and faith to our leaders. Give them fear and great awe of You, that they will fear greatly to harm our holy land."

Ariel commented that "thousands of people came to prayer for the people of Israel, to strengthen the government and the one who stands at its head, that he may be able to stand firm against the different pressures coming from the other side of the ocean," reports Mako.

Reports in early January indicated that Kerry is manipulating the European boycotts to force Israel to submit to territorial withdrawals."We came here to strengthen the prime minister in guarding the land of Israel," said Rabbi Ben-Dahan, who added that if the proposed plans match the rumors surrounding them, they will not be accepted by his Jewish Home party. "Most residents of the country aren't ready to divide Jerusalem, as is said to be proposed in the plan." The plan also reportedly would have the PA create a state along the 1949 Armistice lines. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proposed on Sunday that Jews lived under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria as part of peace plans, a proposal that led to a crisis between Netanyahu and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett. PRAYER ALERT January 28, 2014: Columnist Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times writes from Tel Aviv "Why Kerry is Scary"
"It is pretty clear now that Secretary of State John Kerry will either be Israel’s diplomatic salvation or the most dangerous diplomatic fanatic Israel has ever encountered. But there isn’t much room anymore for anything in between. This is one of those rare pay-per-view foreign policy moments. Pull up a chair. You don’t see this every day." "So that’s where we are: Israelis and Palestinians need to understand that Kerry’s mission is the last train to a negotiated two-state solution. The next train is the one coming at them."
PRAYER ALERT January 24, 2014: It is Shevat 24 and yesterday, Breitbart reported... Obama Blames Israel for Jewish Criticism
"Citing an unnamed Obama administration official, Israel Radio reported Thursday that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry blame the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for encouraging American Jews to criticize the White House for its foreign policy, particularly regarding Israel."
PRAYER ALERT January 15, 2014: China want to join the Middle East Quartet Beijing stands ready to join the international body for negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
"China is ready to join the Middle East Quartet to help negotiate a peace agreement between the Israeli and Palestinians, according to the country’s foreign minister.

At the tail end of a trip to the Arab world last week, Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave an interview to Al Jazeera, in which he spoke at great length about China’s desire to play a greater role in the Middle East, including in the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements.

In response to a question about China’s interest in the Middle East Quartet, Wang said, “we are ready to join it if the Quartet so wishes” but stressed that if it didn’t join it, “China will continue to work in its own way to move the peace process forward.”" If China is brought into the mix, that leaves just one other superpower state out: India. The government of India did not provide recognition of Israel in 1949, but perhaps things have changed. Time will tell.

PRAYER ALERT January 13, 2014: Following up on his 'framework' promise in late December, Kerry: 'Peace Now,' in 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said over the weekend that his country is ready to broker and agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at any time or place both sides want. “We are ready to make peace now, in 2014,” Kerry told Arab foreign ministers. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA chief Mahmoud Abbas “have both shown courage,” Kerry said. “The Israelis and Palestinians are currently wrestling with difficult decisions and challenges,” he added.
PRAYER ALERT December 30, 2013: Likud Grapples With Jordan Valley Annexation Issue

"YERUSHALAYIM - With  Secretary of State John Kerry due to arrive on Wednesday, the Likud took up the issue of the proposed Jordan Valley annexation during a meeting Monday held to discuss the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, Arutz Sheva reported.

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon made clear his unequivocal support for annexation.

“The Jordan Valley is a part of the state of Israel, and whoever thinks otherwise apparently is in the wrong party,” he declared.

Kerry is said to be fixed on a plan to implement a phased Israeli withdrawal from the Valley over a period of 10 years or more. He reportedly will try to force Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept the idea, and to induce Israeli generals to convince a skeptical Israeli public that it would be safe."

PRAYER ALERT December 27, 2013: Prophetic events in The Middle East occurred this year with and I pray you are here because you are not oblivious to the prophetic importance of these events. If you have read my original post Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet you have heard me refer to Iran and North Korea as two of the "craftsmen" of Zechariah.

The King James version of the Bible calls them "carpenters" but the Hebrew meaning is "charash" or craftsmen or blacksmith which is shown in other translations. Zechariah saw four "craftsmen" and Zechariah asked the messenger of The Lord (YHVH) who they were. The answer is seen in Zechariah 1:21:
“... these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns (governments) of the nations who lifted up their horns (government authority) against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
If you are wondering why, this Reuters news article will show you the crafty move of Iran's Rouhani and at the same time this article from South Korea's The Chosumiblo shows you more of the same chaos. 

A 3rd "Craftsman" I've noted is Iraq. This week's horrific report is from FoxNews: Bomb attacks on Christians in Baghdad kill 37
"At least 37 were killed in Iraq after militants targeted Christians in two separate bomb attacks on Wednesday, according to officials. In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church during Christmas Mass in the capital's southern Dora neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said. A little bit earlier, a bomb ripped through an outdoor market in the nearby Christian section of Athorien, killing 11 people and wounding 21, the officer added. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but Iraq's dwindling Christian community, which is estimated to number about 400,000 to 600,000 people, has often been targeted by al-Qaida and other insurgents who see the Christians as unbelievers."
Perhaps the 4th is Syria. The Telegraph reports Syria: Assad regime's barrel bombs kill more than 400:
"Syrian officials say the assault is targeting rebel forces in the country’s second city and surrounding towns and villages. But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other groups say the majority of those killed are civilian.

It said that among the dead were 117 children, some in bombing raids on schools, and more than 30 women. The attacks follow a pattern of air raids on civilian areas following losses on the ground for the Syrian army." PRAYER ALERT December 25, 2013: When you consider the goal of dividing Israel for a Palestinian State you must know you live in a chaotic, confused world full of lies and deception. Today, Arutz Sheva reports on one such lie: Mahmoud Abbas Mocked For Claiming Jesus was a 'Palestinian'

"In his Christmas speech to Christians in the PA and throughout the world, Abbas said: "In Bethlehem, 2,000 years ago, Jesus was born - a Palestinian who brought the gospel and became a guide for millions worldwide, just as we, the Palestinians, are fighting for our freedom, 2,000 years later. We try to walk in his footsteps to the extent possible." 
Israel's Foreign Ministry displayed rare humor in its reply. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "Abbas should have perused the New Testament before he said such utter nonsense, but we forgive him because he knows not what he does.""
Yes, if Abbas were wise he would just read the truth and he would know he is certainly not walking in His footsteps because the fact is... Jesus is an Israeli Jew.
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” Matthew 2:1-2
PRAYER ALERT December 22, 2013: Kerry to present 'framework agreement' to Israel, Palestinians later this month
In an attempt to re-energize the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, US Secretary of State John Kerry intends to present a "framework agreement" to both sides by the end of the month, London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday.

Quoting anonymous Arab League sources, the paper reported the agreement will include security measures meant to assuage both sides. On two visits earlier this month Kerry presented to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu security “ideas” based on the work that a team of some 160 US officials, headed by retired US Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, drew up defining what it thought would be necessary for Israel’s security if a Palestinian state were created. 
Those ideas reportedly included an IDF presence in the Jordan Valley for an extended period, between 10 and 15 years. Netanyahu has for years been adamant in demanding an Israeli security presence – and not any kind of international force – along the Jordan River following a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Abbas, who rejected the proposal, sought the backing of the Arab League in an emergency meeting held on Saturday. The Arab League also rejected the proposal, holding Israel responsible for “hindering” the peace talks with the Palestinians and calling to compel Israel to halt settlement construction.

Referring to Kerry’s proposal to maintain an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley for several years, the Arab representatives reiterated their commitment to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state “on all the Palestinian lands occupied in 1967, with east Jerusalem as its capital,” in accordance with the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and UN resolutions pertaining to the Israeli-Arab conflict. PRAYER ALERT December 16, 2013: Why is there no academic boycott against Iran, Egypt, Syria or Libya? Insanity was reported again by the New York Times today...
Boycott by Academic Group Is a Symbolic Sting to Israel An American organization of professors on Monday announced a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, signaling that a movement to isolate and pressure Israel that is gaining ground in Europe has begun to make strides in the United States. Members of the American Studies Association voted by a ratio of more than two to one to endorse the boycott in online balloting that concluded Sunday night, the group said.
PRAYER ALERT December 10, 2014: Just three days before he is to return to Israel to again try to forge the division of the Promised Land, John Kerry appeared before Congress to pridefully testify about the "deal" he says he cut with Iran. Wow... you might want to look at these photos. I do not recall seeing eyes so strikingly prideful and haughty... or is it just me?
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
PRAYER ALERT December 9, 2103: Israel ready for ‘historic compromise’ with Palestinians, Netanyahu says
"JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was ready for a “historic compromise” in talks with the Palestinians as he presented a new government that is a mix of centrists and hawkish supporters of Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Speaking in parliament before the 22 ministers were sworn in, Netanyahu said that, while the cabinet would work to carry out domestic reforms that were the focus of Israel’s election in January, the government’s top priority would be “protecting the security of the state and its citizens.” He said Israel faced threats from Iran’s nuclear program and the upheaval in Syria, where he warned that stockpiles of “some of the deadliest weapons on earth” could fall into the hands of militants.

He pledged that Israel would “take all measures necessary to prevent those weapons from falling in the hands of the terrorist organizations.”

Two days before a planned visit by President Obama, who is expected to explore options for renewing stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Netanyahu struck a conciliatory tone.“The new government in Israel extends its hand for peace with our Palestini

an neighbors,” Netanyahu said. “Israel has proven time and again that it is ready for compromises in return for genuine peace.”“With a Palestinian partner that is ready to conduct negotiations in good faith, Israel will be ready for a historic compromise that will end the conflict with the Palestinians once and for all,” Netanyahu added." PRAYER ALERT November 28, 2013: Irony? Coincidence? Warning? Seven killed as earthquake shakes Iran nuclear reactor just four days after six nations, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (US, Russia, France, Britain & China) plus Germany (P5+1) granted a financial sanctions release to Iran to halt enrichment, dilute and dismantle uranium stockpiles that have been enriched to 20%.You can read the text of the agreement that isolates Israel alone here.

P5+1 is a potentially interesting symbol in Biblical history. The term p5+1 refers to the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. The EU countries refer to these nations as the E3+3.

The Scriptures show us time and again that six (5+1) nations fought with Israel. The Torah names the ancient nations as the 1) Canaanites, 2) Hittites, 3) Amorites, 4) Perizzites, 5) Hivites and the 6) Jebusites (see Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17 Exodus 13:5 Exodus 23:23 and Numbers 13:29).

However, there are actually seven (7) nations that are parties to the nuclear agreement because Iran is the fulcrum nation in the deal. Well it just so happens that Deuteronomy names seven nations by adding in the 7) Girgashites:
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou Deuteronomy 7:1
Deuteronomy also declares that the ancient six were destroyed, but the Girgashites are left out of the list:
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: Deuteronomy 7:1
Why would that be, and just where are the Girgashites today?

The Bible tells us this nation lived east of the sea of Galilee. So who lives east of the Galilee today? Just look at the map. Time will tell, but perhaps the omission of the Girgashites is a foreshadowing of Isaiah's prophecy for Assyria and Israel. Yet God promises a blessing to come in the end:
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom YHVH of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." Isaiah 19:20-25
We must watch!

PRAYER ALERT November 21, 2013: The Washington Free Beacon reports: Iran Launches ‘Massive’ War Drills.
"Iranian military forces launched a series of “massive military drills” across nine provinces on Wednesday following an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to state media reports.The drills, codenamed “Towards Jerusalem,” will continue over the coming days and throughout the rest of the year.At least three battalions of Iran’s “fast reaction” Basij Force participated in the drills, which come as Western nations and Iran try to finalize a deal aimed at halting the country’s contested nuclear program.""Meanwhile, Iran and world powers inch closer to a nuclear deal that could allow Tehran to continue its nuclear enrichment program."
Great, the drills are codenamed "towards Jerusalem".

PRAYER ALERT November 17, 2013: It seems that American history intersected with Israel today. Do your recall the one nation that stood with America as the British sought to rule the destiny of the colonies? It was France.Interestingly, today France it seems stands alone in unity with Israel against the threat of Iranian nukes. France has stood up, but the Quartet's lead member, America, is bending and warping in its support. France "it seems" is seeking to replace the U.S. as Israel's strongest ally as Iran continually threatens war with what its leaders call ‘cancerous tumor Israel’. Radical militant Islam seeks the death of Israel, pray they will not seek to harm France in some way as The Times of Israel reports: In Israel, Hollande says France won’t waver on Iran."France will uphold economic sanctions on Iran as long as the Islamic Republic does not prove it has taken serious steps toward curbing its nuclear program, French President Francois Hollande said Sunday at the opening of a state visit to Israel.“France will not make concessions on nuclear proliferation,” Hollande pledged during a ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport, upon his arrival. “France will maintain all its measures and sanctions until we are certain that Iran has renounced nuclear weapons.”" Perhaps, once again we should thank God for France. Could they be related to Simeon?
Genesis 49:5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers..."
PRAYER ALERT November 9, 2013: very much recommend that you watch this report from CBN. Reporting from Jerusalem, John Wallace is asked: "John, If the US and the other nations reach an agreement with Iran, where does that leave Israel?" His response: "Well, it leaves Israel basically standing alone".It is very important that Bible believers know what is going on... I believe Zechariah 12:3 spoke of this time:
"And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it."
PRAYER ALERT October 20, 2013: A week after PA President Mahmoud Abbas went to Europe to meet with the heads of state of Germany, Italy and Belgium to push for settlement freezes and continue discussions about dividing the land and dividing Jerusalem... The Times of Israel reports: Fourth quake in as many days hits northern Israel
"For the second time Sunday, a minor earthquake shook northern Israel around 4 p.m., the fourth of its kind since Thursday.No injuries or damage were reported, but Tiberias residents told Ynet that they felt the 3.6-magnitude quake. The first quake Sunday also registered 3.6 on the Richter scale quake. Both epicenters were near Kibbutz Ginosar, on the Sea of Galilee.Similarly powerful quakes rattled the north early Saturday morning and Thursday. Last Sunday, a 6.4-magnitude quake, centered in the Mediterranean Sea near Crete, was felt in Athens, Egypt and Israel. In September, an early-morning 3.5-magnitude quake was felt in the northern Dead Sea area, including in Jerusalem. Seismologist Dov Lakovsky of the Geophysical Institute of Israel told The Times of Israel Sunday that there was no cause for alarm and that the quakes were just “a bit stronger than usual.” Such tremblers, he said, “happen all the time.”According to the GII’s statistics, seven earthquakes strong enough to be felt have rattled Israel in 2013. The most powerful one, centered near the Suez Canal on June 1, registered 5.0 on the Richter scale. Israel is situated along the Syrian-African rift, a tear in the earth’s crust running the length of the border separating Israel and Jordan, and is part of the Great Rift Valley, which extends from northern Syria to Mozambique.Israel’s last major earthquake rattled the region in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude quake that killed 500 and injured another 700. An earthquake in 1837 left as many as 5,000 people dead. According to a 2010 Haaretz report, major earthquakes strike Israel once every 80 years or so, meaning the country may be due for a serious natural disaster."
PRAYER ALERT September 27, 2013: As the United States government prepares to shutdown due to division over the Federal budget the Quartet has re-engaged to divide Israel.Using what appears to be a pun for the "birth" of a Palestinian State the Quartet has drawn a line in the sand for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to reach a peace plan deal within 9 months.This was declared the day after the Biblically appointed 8th day called Shemini Atzeret, the eight day following the seven day Feast of Tabernacles.Picking nine months would mean that by Pentecost (Shavuot) 2014, the peace and security agreement should be completed. Will peace and security settle the Middle East for "a little while"?

The names of the politicians may have changed from the original Quartet, but the plan is the same... divide Israel and Jerusalem and call it a plan for "peace and security" just as the Spirit of God is elevating the consciousness of identity of the House of Israel.Why would this Quartet "peace plan" unfold in this way at this time?A huge mistake is unfolding before our eyes as foretold by prophecy with prevailing “wars and rumors of wars” in the Middle East as Iran spews its verbal venom against the Jewish State in Israel. The Quartet is leading the planet into a catastrophe of Biblical proportions with this nine month time frame to birth the Palestinian State that is destined to end after the Passover of April, 15 2014.

Ban Ki-moon and Quartet diplomats Catherine Ashton, John Kerry Sergey Lavrov and Tony Blair

UN and Middle East partners reaffirm support for resumed Israeli-Palestinian talks
"The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for peace in the Middle East today reaffirmed their determination to provide maximum support to the Israelis and the Palestinians as they resume talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive peace.The Middle East Quartet – the diplomatic grouping bringing together the UN, the European Union, Russia and the United States – met at UN Headquarters in New York on the margins of the annual high-level debate of the General Assembly.The meeting is the first time in one and a half years that the members of the Quartet have met at the level of principals and it follows the most recent round of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians held last month.“The Quartet reaffirmed its determination to lend effective support to the efforts of the parties and their shared commitment to reach a permanent status agreement within the agreed goal of nine months,” the group said in a statement.It commended the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and their commitment to remaining engaged in sustained and continuous negotiations to address all of the core issues.“The Quartet called on all parties to take every possible step to promote conditions conducive to the success of the negotiating process and to refrain from actions that undermine trust or prejudge final status issues.”During the meeting, the Quartet received an update from US Secretary of State John Kerry on the progress in the talks since talks resumed on 29 July, as well as a joint briefing on the negotiations by the chief negotiators from both sides.The group also discussed efforts to boost support to the Palestinian economy, as well as the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the importance of both sides demonstrating a commitment to improving the atmosphere for the negotiations.The other principals participating in the meeting were UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union Catherine Ashton.They were joined by Quartet Representative Tony Blair and by Israeli chief negotiator Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat."
Can you relate this news to the advice given the Thessalonians?
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1Thessalonians 5:1-6
PRAYER ALERT September 24, 2013: If you are a keen Bible student you will recognize the dangers in the words spoken today by Barak Hussein Obama during his United Nations address. Below are some excerpts and five questions. First notice, who does the current President speak for? Answer: himself.
"So let me take this opportunity to outline what has been U.S. policy toward the Middle East and North Africa and what will be my policy..."
Next, what drives his interest? Answer: oil.
"The United States of America is prepared to use all elements of our power, including military force, to secure our core interests in the region. We will confront external aggression against our allies and partners, as we did in the Gulf War. We will ensure the free flow of energy from the region to the world."
Third, what prophecy do the following words remind you of? Answer: 1 Thessalonians 5:3 says... "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."
"In the near term, America’s diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues: Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Arab- Israeli conflict. While these issues are not the cause of all the region’s problems, they have been a major source of instability for far too long, and resolving them can help serve as a foundation for a broader peace.""We are also determined the resolve a conflict that goes back even further than our differences with Iran, and that is the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.I’ve made it clear that the United States will never compromise our commitment to Israel’s security, nor our support for its existence as a Jewish state."
Fourth, does he believe he is greater than the promise of God given to Abraham? Answer: He believes the land of Judea and Samaria is "occupied".
"And I believe there’s a growing recognition within Israel that the occupation of the West Bank is tearing at the democratic fabric of the Jewish state."
Fifth, what is his position on Jerusalem? Answer: He seeks to bring united nations out to determine its status as the Capital of Israel.
"So the time is now ripe for the entire international community to get behind the pursuit of peace. Already, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have demonstrated a willingness to take significant political risks. President Abbas has put aside efforts to shortcut the pursuit of peace and come to the negotiating table. Prime Minister Netanyahu has released Palestinian prisoners and reaffirmed his commitment to a Palestinian state. Current talks are focused on final status issues of borders and security, refugees and Jerusalem."
The prophet is quotes God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven, Earth and mankind who gives a promise:
"Thus says YHVH: 'I will return to Zion, And dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, The Mountain of YHVH of hosts, The Holy Mountain." Zechariah 8:3
PRAYER ALERT September 23, 2013 All this time you may have believed that Iran was building their nuclear powr capabilities, but it has been Quartet Member Russia. It is interesting that few headlines reported today that Russia turns over Bushehr nuclear plant to Iranian client
"Russia has turned over the first generating unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant to its Iranian client. Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom told Interfax that CJSC Atomstroyexport has signed an act of transfer for Bushehr.The building of the plant on the Persian Gulf coast was begun back in the 1970s by a consortium led by Siemens. The German company rejected the contract with Iran for political reasons. Russia and Iran agreed on the completion of the first generating unit at the facility in 1992.A Russian reactor was integrated into what the Germans had built.CJSC Atomstroyexport was brought on board. By the end of this past June, the power plant was taken to 100 percent capacity. The handover was put off several times. Russia might return to talks about building new units at Bushehr.The head of Iran's Atomic Energy organization Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani told the press on June 28 that his country plans to build three more power-generating units at the Bushehr nuclear power plant and hopes to broaden cooperation with the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom."
PRAYER ALERT August 2, 2013 Within a week of the U.S. announcing that out nation will press to divide Israel, the "craftsmen" of those that oppose noted and described in my original Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet post cause all U.S. Embassies to be shut down and abandoned by the State Department in Muslim world 19 countries. Travel Alerts have also been issued.


In a July 25th PRAYER ALERT I warned that we are in rebellion and we have turned against the Holy One of Israel. We have separated God from our state and divided our own land... yet at this critical time Secretary of State John Kerry while returning from his trip to Islamabad, Pakistan to meet with new government officials there made a stop over in London where he found it more important that he announce a travel VISA change for same sex couples in lieu of discussing global security measures surrounding our Embassy closures. He said:
"Effective immediately, when same-sex spouses apply for a visa, the Department of State will consider that application in the same manner that it will consider the application of opposite-sex spouses."
He spoke with certainty as if his policy is right. By his own words it will get us in trouble.
“It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and be wrong. It's another to be certain and be right, or to be certain and be moving in the right direction, or be certain about a principle and then learn new facts and take those new facts and put them to use in order to change and get your policy right.”--And certainty sometimes can get you in trouble.” Senator John F. Kerry, Presidential Debate, September 30, 2004
Well, despite what Kerry choose to talk about while in London, the travel alert is VERY IMPORTANT so here it is: Travel Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs...
August 02, 2013: The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula.Current information suggests that al-Qa’ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August.This Travel Alert expires on August 31, 2013.Terrorists may elect to use a variety of means and weapons and target both official and private interests. U.S. citizens are reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure.Terrorists have targeted and attacked subway and rail systems, as well as aviation and maritime services.U.S. citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when traveling.
PRAYER ALERT July 25, 2013 Most of us that were around in 1970 remember the flight of Apollo 13 and Jack Swigart's words over the NASA radio: "Houston we had a problem". Well America, we've got a problem and it seems most Americans don't have a clue what we will soon face. But then... Legally, as a nation we are in rebellion, we have turned against the words of the Holy One of Israel. We tossed out the Bible and made prayer illegal in our public schools, we have legalized abortion, we have thrown the 10 Commandments out of our courthouses and most recently we have changed our laws to disregard God's instruction on marriage as we press an agenda for homosexuality. We have separated God from our state and divided our own land... whatever happened to God and country?
Now, we continue our pursuit to divide the Promised Land of Israel. It is bizarre that we say we do this in the name of peace. Even more interesting, a man named Shalom (peace) is the spokesperson for Israel in this announcement as Israeli-Palestinian talks to begin next week, says minister
"Negotiators are expected to meet in Washington for first talks in almost three years.The first talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators for almost three years are scheduled to begin in Washington next Tuesday, according to an Israeli minister. The statement was not immediately confirmed by officials from either side.Silvan Shalom, speaking after meeting the Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in the West Bank city of Jericho, told reporters: "We hope that the talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington will begin next week, hopefully Tuesday. We want and are interested in moving forward in the negotiations.""
US secretary of state John Kerry calls the agreement – announced after four months of diplomacy – 'a significant step forward'
"The US is to host talks with Israel and Palestinian negotiators in the next week following a breakthrough in the drive to revive the moribund Middle East peace process.John Kerry, US secretary of state, called the move a "significant step forward".Details of the parameters for the talks were not disclosed by Kerry. At a press conference in Amman, Jordan – following a helicopter trip to Ramallah for a last-minute meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas – Kerry warned against "conjecture" and said both sides had agreed that only he would make further comment on the process."
As this commentary on Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet has shown, the problem with the latter days peace process is the judgment "in that day" of those nations that divide God's land for the reward of a so-called peace plan. But they will reap a different reward for the Palestinians and themselves:
"For behold, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute JUDGMENT upon them for their treatment of My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and because they have DIVIDED MY LAND." Joel 3:1-2 
For when they shall say, PEACE AND SAFETY; then sudden DESTRUCTION cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1Thessalonians 5:3 
For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy REWARD shall return upon thine own head. For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall NOT BE [ANY] REMAINING of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it]. Obadiah 1:15-18 
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of FIRE among the wood, and like a torch of FIRE in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:6
PRAYER ALERT July 21, 2013: Just when you thought nothing happened this year on Tisha b'Av, a key member of the Quartet that seeks to divide Israel has moved against Israel with economic restrictions against the so-called settlements in the Golan Heights, The West Bank and East Jerusalem. According to Canada Free Press the European Union joins Obama in setting 1967 borders for Israel!
The EU has announced its new policy of boycotting Jews and Israelis living in areas gained in the 1967 six-day-war. This means that, beginning in 2014, contracts and agreements between the EU and Israeli businesses, institutions and individuals will no longer be recognized by EU courts if they are outside the pre-1967 borders.This includes Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem.Melanie Phillips, writing for the UK Daily Mail, sums it up perfectly in this excerpt displaying her brilliant cutting edge style:“Consternation in Israel over the EU’s malicious decision to boycott individuals or institutions situated over the ‘Green Line’ between Israel and the disputed territories. This would presumably include boycotting, for example, the Hebrew University which is just over that line or, even more grotesquely, Jewish residents in Jerusalem’s Old City—where ancient Jewish settlement far predated the arrival of a single Arab, dating as it does since King David who built it as the capital of the kingdom of the Jewish people.News of the EU’s act of existential spite against Israel broke on the fast of Tisha b’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple (you know, that Temple, the one that stood in Jerusalem all those centuries ago before any Arabs existed, let alone any Green Line) along with the seemingly never-ending list down through the ages of all those prosecuting their uniquely murderous and baseless hatred of the Jewish people.Some coincidence. To that list of infamy, the EU can now add its name. For shame.” (Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail, July 17th 2013)An EU statement about the directive said it is ““in conformity with the EU’s longstanding position that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and with the non-recognition by the EU of Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied territories, irrespective of their legal status under domestic Israeli law.”
On the EU financial block… Jerusalem is the site of the City of David… here’s the news there today. Archaeologists claim to have found King David's palace in Israel today.You will want to watch this a video from TBN on the dig.Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

PRAYER ALERT July 11, 2013: As noted in the July 2nd prayer alert below, the latest report from The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies reveals 36% of respondents held that Israel poses a threat to Arab security and 12% named Iran as the single biggest threat... "This figure rises to over one third for respondents in Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."Well today, The Telegraph reports Saudi Arabia is targeting both Israel and Iran with powerful ballistic missiles, new satellite photography shown by military experts to The Telegraph suggests:
"Images analysed by experts at IHS Jane's Intelligence Review has revealed a hitherto undisclosed surface-to-surface missile base deep in the Saudi desert, with capabilities for hitting both countries. Analysts who examined the photos spotted two launch pads with markings pointing north-west towards Tel Aviv and north-east towards Tehran. They are designed for Saudi Arabia's arsenal of lorry-launched DF 3 missiles, which have a range of 1,500-2,500 miles and can carry a two-ton payload.The base, believed to have been built within the last five years, gives an insight into Saudi strategic thinking at a time of heightened tensions in the Gulf."
PRAYER ALERT July 2, 2013: As we approach Tisha B’Av on the 16th of July this year things are really heating up as two Mideast polar personalities have Israel in the middle. Just look at the largest mass protests the world has ever seen as perhaps 30 million march in Egypt as conditions begin to look like Syria. Almost like the north and south pole of a giant magnet with a polar opposite energy emanating in invisible lines in Egypt, the Army supports the protestors, yet in Syria the Army supports the government.I hope that this analogy makes sense to you. After all, a magnet is a piece of iron that possesses the property of attracting opposite charges and a magnetic pole can only be North or South. God's law of magnetism provides that they are always bipolar and if a bar magnet is broken into two pieces in an attempt to separate the north and south poles, the result will be continued opposition... two bar magnets.This should get you thinking as the U.S. adamantly wants to divide Israel. Israel is the center of the Earth as the place God chose to place His name. Conceptually, it really is a magnetic domain and as such it produces a spiritual electric current and a magnetic field, dividing is will just not work, it opposes the law of God. Can you see that the Quartet's goal is ultimately twisted and skewed from the plan of God for The Promised Land. Just consider that the Arab world wants deeply to unite the region as an Arab super state, yet we want to divide the only democracy. The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies just announced the 2012/2013 Arab Opinion Index findings which state:
"In terms of broader Arab nationalism, 79% of the Arab public believes in the integrity of a single Arab nation, or that the various Arab peoples comprise one nation, notwithstanding the possible differences between Arab peoples. In contrast, only 14% of respondents held the view that the Arab peoples were in fact "distinct nations". An overwhelming majority of 75% of respondents supported increased cooperation and integration between the various Arab states.Regarding the possibility of making the concept of a single Arab nation a reality, 73% of respondents stated that Israel (52%) and the United States (21%) presented the largest threats to Arab national security. This compares with only 6% of respondents who believed that Iran was the single biggest threat to joint Arab security. A large majority of respondents (87%) were opposed to official recognition of Israel by their countries. In addition, 84% expressed opposition to the peace agreements which their countries or other Arab states have already signed with Israel.When asked about which state posed the largest threat to the security of their specific home country, 36% of respondents held that this was Israel, while 11% believed it was the United States. Meanwhile, 12% of total respondents named Iran as the single biggest threat to their home country. This figure rises to over one third for respondents in Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."
Meanwhile, as if nothing was happening in the supercharged, superconducting lands North or South of the Promised Land, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry says ‘real progress’ made in peace talks between Israel, Palestinians
"Kerry’s efforts said the package would likely include, as a goodwill gesture, the release of some Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. He said the Palestinians were told that Netanyahu is prepared to restrain settlement construction and to discuss the 1967 borders, without any promise to withdraw to those lines. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.The emerging deal is also expected to include large amounts of international aid to the Palestinians; Israeli agreement to allow the Palestinians to launch new development projects in the West Bank; and Palestinian pledges to halt their campaign of seeking recognition of their independence in international bodies before there is a peace agreement.Over Israeli and U.S. objections, the Palestinians last year won upgraded observer status at the United Nations, and they have threatened to pursue war crimes charges against Israel if peace efforts remain stalled.Israel’s Channel 2 TV, citing anonymous Israeli officials, said there had been progress, but sticking points remained in the areas of settlements, prisoners and borders. It said Kerry was expected back in a week or so and was aiming to restart talks before the Muslim holiday of Ramadan begins early next week."
And in the U.S., the fear of famine, financial famine that is drove investors away from bond funds in June. This may seem unrelated to the U.S. press for peace in the division of Israel that intensifies as we turn further from God as proven by our Supreme Count in the case of the United States v. Windsor, but this CNBC report is important as'Unprecedented' $80 Billion Pulled From Bond Funds
A record amount of money poured out of exchange-traded and mutual bond funds in June, according to a fresh report by TrimTabs, nearly double the amount pulled out of bond funds at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008.Investor fears over the scaling back of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond purchasing program has seen the yield on 10-year Treasurys rise sharply to 2.5 percent as $80 billion left bond funds in June, according to the research. "The herd is scrambling for the exit this month as bond yields back up across the board and central bankers hint that they might provide less monetary stimulus in the future," TrimTabs CEO David Santschi said in a research note on Sunday. "We estimate that bond mutual funds have lost $70.8 billion in June through Thursday, June 27, while bond exchange-traded funds have lost $9.0 billion."
And the Guardian reports that China to join Russia for largest ever joint naval drills with foreign partner Exercises are intended to deepen co-operation between militaries, says Chinese army chief
"China will join Russia later this week for its largest-ever naval drills with a foreign partner, underscoring deepening ties between the former cold war rivals along with Beijing's desire for closer links with regional militaries.China has long been a key customer for Russian military hardware, but only in the last decade have their militaries begun taking part in joint exercises. China's defence ministry said on Tuesday that its navy would send four destroyers, two guided missile frigates and a support ship for the "Joint Sea 2013" exercises, which start on Friday in the Sea of Japan and run until 12 July."
PRAYER ALERT June 19, 2013: Iran's election votes have been counted and the Persian state has a new President. The global press and Obama have labeled him as a moderate, The Washington Free Beacon has a different story:New Iranian President Tied to 1994 Bombing -
"Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani was on the special Iranian government committee that plotted the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, according to an indictment by the Argentine government prosecutor investigating the case.The AMIA bombing is considered the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history, killing 85 and wounding hundreds more. The Argentine government had accused the Iranian government of planning the attack and Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah of carrying it out. Numerous former and current Iranian officials are wanted by Interpol in connection with the bombing.Former Iranian intelligence official Abolghasem Mesbahi, who defected from Iran in the late 1990s, testified that the decision to launch the attack was made within a special operations committee connected to the powerful Supreme National Security Council in August 1993.According to the 2006 indictment, Mesbahi testified that Rowhani, who was then serving as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, was also a member of the special committee when it approved the AMIA bombing."
PRAYER ALERT June 1, 2013: Today the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) tells us that terrorism and violence is escalating rapidly in Islam's chasm of conflict between Shiite and Sunni nation of Iraq. The withdrawal of our troops in 2011 has had a great impact on the Muslim world which is like the legs of iron supported by a mixture of clay and iron that will not cleave together in unity. This can be seen in the interpretation of Daniel 2:33-43. It is bizarre but we (United States) have our largest Embassy on the planet in Iraq.

Actually it's in the old area of Babylon, but it seems we hardly receive any detailed reports from there, just that we condemn violence and unlawful actions. So we have to rely on the UN Casualty Figures for May: More than one thousand Iraqis killed This is just the beginning.If you think the saga of Iraq is over, think again. Iraq will soon fall again into a daily state of terror and sectarian violence. We never withdraw our troops but this time we did and it was a huge mistake to withdraw the security of U.S. troops. The chaos boiling within Jihad will spread as the most dangerous threat to humanity. The proponents of global Islamic Jihad want to re-establish the Caliphate and nearby there is also the potential chaos of a nuclear Iran, the Haman nation supported by Russia and China that worries everyone. My view is that Iran will eventually engage joint nuclear weapons and long range missile development with North Korea.
"Baghdad, 1 June 2013 – According to casualty figures released today by UNAMI, a total of 1,045 Iraqis were killed and another 2,397 were wounded in acts of terrorism and acts of violence in May.The number of civilians killed was 963 (including 181 civilian police) and the number of civilians injured was 2,191 (including 359 civilian police). A further 82 members of the Iraqi Security Forces were killed and 206 were injured.“That is a sad record,” the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Mr. Martin Kobler, said. “Iraqi political leaders must act immediately to stop this intolerable bloodshed,” the UN envoy added.Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate with 1,817 civilian casualties (532 killed, 1,285 injured), followed by Salahuddin, Ninewa, Anbar, Diyala and Kirkuk.UNAMI recorded a minimum of 560 security incidents in different parts of Iraq. 178 of these incidents involved Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which killed and injured a minimum of 886 civilians; 82 Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED) and Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (SVBIED) killed and injured a minimum of 1,435 civilians; and 243 incidents of Small Arms Fire (SAF) killed and injured a minimum of 470 civilians." 
Disclaimer: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq undertakes monitoring of the impact of armed violence and terrorism on Iraqi civilians in accordance with its mandate. UNAMI relies on direct investigation, along with credible secondary sources, in determining civilian casualties. UNAMI figures are conservative and may under-report the actual number of civilians killed and injured for a variety of reasons. Where different casualty figures are obtained for the same incident, the figure as verified by UNAMI is used.
This is a much bigger picture. This is about the book of Daniel. This is about prophecy. This is about Assyria. The regional conflicts including what we have witnessed in Syria and what we may soon see as Saudi Arabia becomes involved means we are reading in today's headlines are the prophecies of Edom, Moab, Amalek and Ammon. We are watching the children of Ishmael and Hagar, even the Philistines. There is a very powerful vortex of prophetic dynamics at work, sucking and spinning toward Israel and a global Esau-Jacob conflict as the U.S./E.U. sides with Sunni and Russia/China Shiite. Many prognosticators say the Middle East is moving into a new game and we can’t know how it will end, but we can. Open you Bible.

PRAYER ALERT May 13, 2013: Just when you thought that he faded away into obscurity Jimmy Carter has reappeared on the Quartet scene, and no he is not using his influence as a member of "The Elders" to speak against the horrors of death emanating form the rule of Damascus, Syria some 135 miles north of Jerusalem. Nor is he standing firm for human rights as the leadership in Damascus threatens to move its violence south as "Syria says it reserves right to invade Golan Heights". No, is he not even drawing attention to the end game persecution of Christians 264 miles away in Cairo from a "Dispatch from Cairo: The frighteningly uncertain future of Christians in Egypt"?

He's not speaking in support of "Christian Converts Unsettled by Fatwa Calling for Execution of Those Who Leave Islam". Instead he is talking about "labeling products" made in the West Bank, just 6 miles from Jerusalem. Wow, I wonder just whose "law" he prescribes to? He calls it international...

May 12, 2013 Jimmy Carter calls on EU to label settlement goods "“With the Middle East peace process making no significant progress, we call on Europe to play a stronger and more independent role in revitalizing peace efforts, with a fresh approach,” Carter said Friday in a statement. “The EU has repeatedly condemned settlement expansion in the West Bank. It could therefore introduce a clear labeling of products made in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law.”""The EU has for several months been working toward enacting guidelines that would require retailers to label Israeli goods produced beyond the pre-1967 lines as not having originated in Israel. Several EU states, including the UK and the Netherlands, have declared their support for such measures; the South African government introduced similar steps recently.""“The question of so-called labeling is one of the issues where the Europeans just want to make sure that, according to our consumer laws, the consumers have the information they want to have,” the EU’s special representative to the Middle East peace process, Ambassador Andreas Reinicke, told reporters in Jerusalem last week.The EU recognizes Israel only in its pre-1967 borders, and an increasing number of states are in favor of labeling Israeli products from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. While last year only one or two countries recommended that retailers label such goods, currently 13 to 14 of the EU’s 27 member states are considering similar measures, Reinicke said."

PRAYER ALERT April 14, 2013: Remember the old saying that "There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within", well if you have been following this post recently or since it started in 2010, like me you will find this headline amazing as the "craftsmen" of North Korea declare: North Korea Rebuffs Talks As A 'Crafty Trick'
"North Korea has rejected the South's call to negotiate to resolve the nuclear crisis, calling it a "crafty trick".The development came as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Japan for the last leg of his four-day Asia tour aimed at reining in Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions."
PRAYER ALERT April 9, 2013: Do you remember this incredible Washington Times headline? McCain calls for U.S. to consider arming Syrian protesters. Well today the headlines reads like this: Al-Qaeda confirms Syria war role as US mulls new pressure. Both Iraq and Syria are listed in both the original and this subsequent news commentary on Zechariah's Vision as two of the four "craftsmen" that have merged in nuclear threat as the axis of evil becomes connected in the chaos of Amalek from the land of Edom (see Exodus 17:16) and don't forget Herod was an Edomite too:
"DAMASCUS (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirmed on Tuesday long-held suspicions that it is behind jihadists fighting in Syria, as Washington said it was mulling new ways to drive President Bashar al-Assad from power.The mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army kept its distance from the jihadists, insisting its alliance with the key opposition fighting force was purely tactical and that its goal was a democratic Syria."The Al-Nusra Front is simply a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq," the head of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq front group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, said in a recording posted online.Describing Al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani as "one of our soldiers," he said the two groups would merge under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.Baghdadi's comments came a day after an Al-Nusra-style suicide bombing in the heart of Damascus killed at least 15 people and wounded 146. They also came after Al-Qaeda's global chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged rebels to fight to establish an Islamic state in Syria, in an audio message posted on the Internet on Sunday."
Speaking of the 'craft' of Al-Qaeda's threat, you might want to check out this study,"Assessing the Jihadist Terrorist Threat to America and American Interests" (subscription is required).Did you know that the U.S. has been helping Japan develop missile defense systems since 2006 due to ongoing threats from the craftsmen of North Korea and now Japan, like South Korea is really getting really nervous? On South Korea, Russia Today reports: Pyongyang warns foreigners to evacuate S. Korea, threatens ‘thermonuclear’ war
"Pyongyang has issued a warning urging foreign nationals to evacuate South Korea, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The statement was followed by threats from North Korea of “thermonuclear” war on the Korean Peninsula.North Korea has warned all foreign nationals to prepare to evacuate the South in the event of conflict. "We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war," Reuters quoted KCNA news agency as saying, citing the spokesperson for its Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.The warning was read out on North Korea’s state television: “all international organizations, businesses and tourists” were told to “work out measures for the evacuation”.The statement was followed by renewed threats of “thermonuclear" war on the Korean Peninsula, AFP reported. "The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war," Pyongyang’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee stated."
As warned in the original Zechariah's Vision report:
Listen out there, wake up!!!! It has been 70 years since we have seen a dark and evil alliance. Yesterday, it was Germany and Japan. Today it is Iran and North Korea. Seventy years ago it was a concerted evil that began against Judah. Today, it is against Ephraim.
PRAYER ALERT April 8, 2013: Today marks the annual Holocaust memorial day and with threats of destruction coming from North Korea and Iran with Syria disintegrating Secretary of State John Kerry is focused on regurgitating the 2002 Arab Peace Plan in lieu of the Quartet plan to divide Israel and give away the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Like the ancient alliance of Ishmael and Esau, the plan is from the 22 member Arab League and the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation as Kerry lays a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial. It's about a mile from Mount Zion and The Old City (East Jerusalem) which includes the Garden of Gethsemane, The Chapel of Ascension, The Pool of Siloam, The Western Wall as well as the tombs of King David and Zechariah.

Back home in the good 'ol USA, the Washington Times tells us the Defense Department classifies Catholics, evangelicals as extremists... as "a U.S. Army Reserve presentation that classified Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as “extremist” religious groups alongside al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan.

PRAYER ALERT April 5, 2013: Today, as Vice President Biden calls for a New World Order we learn more of a linkage between Iran, North Korea and Syria as these nations plot destruction. Today, there's more to learn of a very dark accord between these. As noted in my original commentary, I wrote of the warning from Zechariah of the "craftsmen". The King James calls them the carpenters, other translations... blacksmiths. In Hebrew, the word used in Zechariah is "charash" it means craftsman, artisan, engraver, graver, artificer; skillful to destroy (warriors) (fig.)The threat against Seoul and Japan now clearly extends to America though a twisted alliance of two of the craftsmen of chaos. Just before North Korea threatened the U.S. Homeland, Iran issued this threat on day 6 of the Omer Count: 'American empire' will collapse THIS YEAR, Iran's supreme leader claims.It is time to consider this MUST READ: The overlooked Iran-Syria-North Korea strategic linkage from Gregory R. Copley, Global Information System/Defense and Foreign Affairs:
"Events in, and linked to, the Eastern Mediterranean continued to be the strategic dynamic of global affairs during March 2013 and beyond. Even developments — seemingly moving toward war as far as Western public perceptions were concerned — on the Korean Peninsula were intrinsically a component of the events within the Eastern Mediterranean focus.North Korea’s apparent threat of war in East Asia; the foreign-financed “civil war” in Syria; the broad strategic effects of the staggeringly myopic approach to a European Union (EU) financial restructuring plan in Cyprus; the misperceptions of a Turkey-Israel rapprochement; the underlying reversal of Western European-Russian energy and political relations (but not the dependencies); the deepening absence of U.S. influence in Eurasia: all were absolutely interconnected and interactive issues. 
And there are, at the time of writing, many sub-sets to this, including the great Turkish competition with Iran, which by March 2013 was reaching an interesting dimension; and the continuing deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations.But, as ever, the discreet accord between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) were playing a truly distinct role.Under this accord, struck between “Ayatollah” Ruhollah Khomeini and Kim Il-Sung in the 1980s, when Iran faced an existential threat, the DPRK would rattle sabers on the Korean Peninsula, distracting the U.S.; and when the DPRK faced such a threat, Iran would similarly distract the world powers. As a result, both the DPRK and Iran have become masters at a kind of brinkmanship which has had Western powers scratching their collective heads. 
It is significant that, despite the bellicose rhetoric from Pyongyang, including talk of targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons, North Korea has not, in fact, made any real war-footing deployments of forces. The U.S., in responding to what it portrayed as a North Korean threat, had, in fact, deployed significant new force elements to South Korea, but itself showed no coherent engagement plan for a “real war”.Still, U.S. analysts seemed to begin to understand the significance of the Iran-DPRK link when it became clear that Iran had sponsored the nuclear weapon detonation in at Punggye-ri, DPRK, on Feb. 13, and then noted the September 2012 DPRK-Iran accord, and some earlier bilateral agreements between the two states.Even so, the fundamental nature of the deep Iran-DPRK agreement on mutual strategic distraction — learned by Kim Il-Sung from earlier Soviet doctrine — was not fully understood by U.S. analysts, largely because of the stove-piping of regional specializations within the U.S. Intelligence and policy communities.It is, however, such a time to again invoke the strategic distraction agreement, when Iran feels that its vital interests are jeopardized by the West’s alliance with some of the major Sunni wealth of the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Tier (principally Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey) that Tehran has called the alliance into action to stop the U.S. and Sunni powers from overthrowing Syrian leader Bashar Assad and removing Iran’s control over its principal regional conduit into the West: Syria. 
It is not an insignificant call, either, as far as North Korea is concerned: Iran has become the principal source of economic and strategic support for the DPRK. Iran cannot be ignored when it calls for help. And the loss of Syria would be, for Iran, a decisive setback for its strategic future, and a possible consequent boost to Turkey’s, Qatar’s, and Saudi Arabia’s fortunes.And yet the European Union (EU) powers and the U.S. view events in the Eastern Mediterranean through entirely localized prisms, seemingly unaware of the broader consequences of their actions in supporting the overthrow of Assad and sustaining the impression of Turkish strategic centrality. Disregarded are such issues as the reaction of Russia, the prospect that Cyprus may become “strategically unavailable” to the West, and so on." [See Related Story: N. Korea's nuke was bought and paid for by a key end-user — Iran]
PRAYER ALERT April 3, 2013: The "craftsmen" keep showing up in the news as a fuse of the powder keg around Israel sparks the IDF responds with fire to rocket sites used by from Salafist militants in Gaza, the U.S. is moving missile defenses to Guam. Is this the tolling of the 3rd bell? It's the evening of April 3rd but in Korea it is the 4th and AFP reports that N. Korea approves nuclear strike on United States
By Jung Ha-Won (AFP) – 1 hour ago SEOUL — North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States. "The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out "today or tomorrow".Pyongyang's latest pronouncement came as Washington scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defences, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam and dispatching two Aegis class destroyers to the region.Tension was also high on the North's heavily fortified border with South Korea, after Kim Jong-Un's isolated regime barred South Koreans from entering a Seoul-funded joint industrial park on its side of the frontier.In a statement published by the state KCNA news agency, the Korean People's Army general staff warned Washington that US threats would be "smashed by... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means". "The merciless operation of our revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified," the statement said.
According to the report our response is...
"US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel earlier said Pyongyang represented a "real and clear danger" to the United States and to its allies South Korea and Japan."
PRAYER ALERT April 1, 2013: This is no April Fool's joke although it certainly seems like one as Ma'an News reports that Abbas, King Abdullah sign Jerusalem agreement. I warned of the future of this alliance in my original commentary on Zechariah.
"President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah on Sunday signed an agreement to defend Jerusalem and its holy sites, Palestinian Authority media reported. Abbas flew to Amman on Sunday for a meeting with King Abdullah at the Royal Palace, attended by the PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmud al-Habash and his Jordanian counterpart Muhammad Qudah. Habash told Wafa news agency that the agreement outlined coordination for the protection of all Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. The agreement confirmed Jordan's historic role in protecting sacred sites in Jerusalem, Habash said. It also confirmed Palestinian sovereignty over all of Palestine, including its capital East Jerusalem, the minister added. The Jordanian palace said the agreement reiterated the king's custodial role."
It seems that this just can't be happening, but it is. As dozens die in terror attacks in Iraq, another head butt comes from the wild ram, Iran against the USA as Brigadier Mohammad Reza Naghdi declares 'American empire' will collapse THIS YEAR. There's good reason the U.S. State Department continues its travel warnings. To top that off, the craftsmen of North Korea (DPRK) have declared war on South Korea and it seems that have targeted my home town of Austin, Texas as a “final warning” to the U.S. Many here are tweeting joke but I don't think that we are witnessing a comedy. Potentially a nuclear war. The Democratic Peoples Democratic Republic has an army of 900,000 and who knows how many nuclear devices.For more background on the "craftsmen" of Zechariah, please read all of the original post: Zechariah's Vision and "The Quartet". PRAYER ALERT March 19, 2013: Like many others, I shared the warning of an uprising of evil in Iraq (see Prayer Alert October 21, 2011 below) and today a Wave of Iraq bombings kill at least 65 a decade after US-led invasion
"BAGHDAD – A wave of bombings tore through Iraq on Tuesday, killing 65 people on eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and showing how unstable Iraq remains more than a year after the withdrawal of American troops.It was the deadliest day of attacks in Iraq since Sept. 9, when insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across the country that left 92 dead. Violence has ebbed sharply since the peak of Sunni-Shiite fighting that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006-2007. But insurgents maintain the ability to stage high-profile attacks while sectarian and ethnic rivalries continue to tear at the fabric of national unity."
PRAYER ALERT March 7, 2013: Today, this NBC News headline reads: Locust swarm of biblical proportions strikes Egypt, Israel before Passover. Is this just an odd coincidence? But there is another headline that you should pray about today. In my original post on 2/7/2010, and again on 11/23/2010 I warned we would see threats from the "Craftsmen" of Zechariah. Those nations that oppose "The Quartet" as the nations line up against Israel stating: "Who do we see today that oppose The Quartet? Who else but the "Axis of Evil" namely nations like: North Korea, Iraq, Syria and don't forget Iran." Today, which is oddly two years and a month ago I noted the North Korean nuclear threat as being linked to Iran. What I referenced was today's global headline about the "craftsmen": North Korea threatens 'pre-emptive nuclear attack By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News
"North Korea threatened to exercise its "right to pre-emptive nuclear attack" Thursday as Pyongyang ratcheted up its rhetoric ahead of a United Nations vote on new sanctions.Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest,'' the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. NBC News could not immediately confirm the statement. However, the remarks were also reported by media outlets including The Associated Press.South Korea is included in the threat, this headline is from South Korea: North threatens South with nukes "Pyongyang threatened to turn Seoul and Washington into “seas of fire” through a “precise nuclear strike” a day after one of its generals said on television that it could walk away from the 1953 armistice agreement that halted the Korean War. In response, the operations chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said if North Korea stages an attack, the South Korean military will retaliate against the source of any attacks and also the leaders who ordered them."
PRAYER ALERT March 6, 2013: Today's headline should grab your attention: "Muslim mob prevents Jews from visiting Temple Mount" it appeared in Israel Today. The story states:
"Groups of Jewish visitors were prevented from ascending the Temple Mount (Judaism's holiest site) by a mob of hostile Muslim women on Wednesday morning. As the groups began to move through the gate, a group of Muslim women blocked their path and began hurling insults at the Jews. Police officers managed to disperse the women, only to then be confronted by an even larger group of angry Muslim men. In order to avoid any violence, Israeli police decided to close the Temple Mount to non-Muslim visitors and ordered the Jewish groups to leave. A similar incident occurred on Monday..."
The translators of the King James Bible inserted words that do not appear in the originals. We know that for sure due to the Dead Sea Scrolls. They did this with the objective of clarification, but in fact it muddies the water of truth. I cover the topic of the desolation of prayer at the Temple Mount in a in-depth study on Daniel because there is no word [sacrifice] in Daniel 8:11. Today atop the Temple Mount no Jew or Christian may legally pray. Some day we may even see a desolation of “daily” prayer at the Western Wall. How do we know? There is no word “sacrifice” in Daniel 8:11-12. It was added by translators... hence the [brackets] or italics in some renderings. Here in verse 11 "he" references the little horn of Daniel 8:9
“Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.” ואשמעה אחד־קדוש מדבר ויאמר אחד קדוש לפלמוני המדבר עד־מתי החזון התמיד והפשע שמם תת וקדש וצבא מרמס וצבא תנתן על־התמיד בפשע ותשלך אמת ארצה ועשתה והצליחה
To make more sense of this, see the PRAYER ALERT January 5, 2013 below which links the reason why Muslims want to prevent Jews from visiting or praying at Temple Mount.

PRAYER ALERT February 6, 2013: Do you really think that all the chatter about the "One World Order" is a secret plan for unity from a group like the Illumnati, the Ecumenical Church or even the International Monetary Fund as some purport? If not, does The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation fit in? Presently its Secretary General is Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, a Turkish Diplomat. He is the 9th Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). As the first “democratically elected” Secretary General of the OIC, Ihsanoglu took office in January 2005 at the helm of the sole intergovernmental international organization representing the "whole" Muslim World. Notably, Islam declares Ishmael, the father in law of Esau as the founder of the Muslim world. Today their annual conference began in Cairo, Egypt and the big news is that Iran's President is in attendance calling for none other than "unity of all Islamic nations" with a focus on supporting a Palestianin state and the division of Israel. But there's more...

PRAYER ALERT January 5, 2013: Today at a mass rally across Gaza celebrating the 48th anniversary of Fatah party, the following recording was blasted over the loudspeakers to perhaps one million people:
"Soon we will achieve unity and end the occupation, raising the Palestinian flag over Al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem," Abbas said. "Our whole lives under occupation and siege, our eyes are now fixed on Jerusalem and we must all take this opportunity to combine our efforts, hearts, and our determination to save Jerusalem, our capital."
PRAYER ALERT December 28, 2012: Today as Iran's Navy Starts Drills In Strait Of Hormuz a Voice of America report comes from nearby Iraq two days after 'Stormin' Norman' Schwarzkopf dies that the Sunni-Shiite conflict is rapidly spreading in Iraq as Muslim protests continue to engage the MidEast:
"Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets in a Sunni-dominated western province, the latest in a series of demonstrations against the country's Shi'ite-led government. The protesters blockaded a main highway Friday in Anbar province west of the capital, Baghdad, holding placards and chanting slogans against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Protests were also reported in the northern Sunni towns of Tikrit, Mosul and Samarra."
Meanwhile in Lebanon, The Daily Star calls Jerusalem "occupied territory" in another report that once again Abbas threatens to abolish PA if no dialogue
"OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that he would disband his Palestinian Authority if there was no Israeli movement toward renewing peace talks after Israel’s elections on Jan. 22, in an interview published in Haaretz Friday. Abbas told the Israeli daily that if such a situation arose he would hand full responsibility for the occupied West Bank to the Israeli government. “If there is no progress even after the election I will take the phone and call [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,” Abbas said. “I’ll tell him ... Sit in the chair here instead of me, take the keys, and you will be responsible for the Palestinian Authority."
PRAYER ALERT December 19, 2012: RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United Nations to help bring Palestinian refugees from Syria to the West Bank and Gaza. Abbas asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intervene in the matter, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Wednesday. "Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the state of Palestine, requested Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the international community enable our people in Syria to enter Palestinian territory," Wafa said. The agency estimates some 450,000 Palestinian refugees live in 10 camps in Syria, some of which have been attacked in recent days."

PRAYER ALERT December 2, 2012: CNN tells us Abbas wants Jerusalem
"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Standing before throngs of cheering supporters Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to the division among Palestinians in the wake of the United Nations upgrading the authority's status -- as Israel refused to acknowledge that new found recognition. "The people who have achieved the accomplishment of the 29th of November, when the world wrote the birth certificate of the state of Palestine, are capable of imposing the will of the people in making the reconciliation happen," he said at a packed rally in Ramallah. The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday elevated the authority's status from "non-member observer entity" to "non-member observer state" -- the same category as the Vatican. " "International efforts for a "two-state solution" focus on a plan to unite Gaza and West Bank under the authority of a single Palestinian government. Palestinian leaders want the capital in east Jerusalem."
PRAYER ALERT November 29, 2012: U.N. declares Palestinian status.
Abbas addresses the UN today in New York
The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine” - Mahmoud Abbas
Today, seven years have passed since the Gaza withdrawal as Israel prepares for Hannukkah.

The U.N. General Assembly today has approved a resolution that gave the non-existent Palestinian State, status as a non-member "Observer State" at the United Nations.

The U.N. Resolution was approved by a 2/3's majority with a vote of 138-9 with 41 abstentions and no vetoes. The vote today was taken exactly 65 years to the very day after the U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize the Jewish state as a Plan of Partition with Economic Union on November 29, 1947.  Bible students with an eye to the heavens should note that two years later, a full lunar eclipse fell on April 13, 1949 during the Feast of Passover and again on the first day of Tabernacles October 7, 1949. This Spring/Fall Feast Day total lunar eclipse pattern repeated in 1950 on Passover April 2, 1950 and again on Tabernacles, September 26, 1950. Interestingly, these events were linked to the timeframe of "The Law of Return" (ha-shvt - Item 5710-1950) which was enacted by Israeli parliamentary legislation on July 5, 1950 providing a decree or edict much like Cyrus the Great's had done in 538-539 B.C. which fulfilled the word of God to Jeremiah and Daniel prayer of petition. The Cyrus Cylinder has a witness to the world of an archaeological artifact that independently confirms the Bible. This has given Cyrus a very good name in history. Many Jews considered him a messiah-like figure that saved the Jewish people and restoring them to the Promised Land and allowing the rebuilding of the Temple. Perhaps the edict of Cyrus gives us the pattern.The 'Law of Return' enabled the legal return of "Jewish people" to the Promised Land that began in earnest in 1917 following the Balfour Declaration and General Allenby's march to take back Jerusalem after World War I.After the 6 Day War, Israel took control of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in June 1967 after a 2,000 year diaspora. Again during this critical time in the history of the land of Israel, a group of four Feast Day eclipses occurred. They were:
1967 April 24 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Passover. 1967 October 18 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Tabernacles. 1968 April 13 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Passover. 1968 October 6 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Tabernacles.
As many have reported and commented, once again we will witness the Heavenly pattern repeat on Passover Day of April 15, 2014 and again on the Day of Tabernacles, October 8, 2014 when the moon go dark on these two Spring/Fall Feast Days of YHVH. The following year, the total eclipses will will repeat on Passover April 4, 2015 and on the first day of Tabernacles September 28, 2015 like another second witness just two years after today's U.N. resolution.Do you see the pattern?
2014 April 15 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Passover. 2014 October 8 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Tabernacles. 2015 April 4 Total Lunar Eclipse Feast of Passover. 2015 September 28 Total Lunar Eclipse of Tabernacles.
Could the world soon see an end to the exile of Ephraim/Joseph to enter the land fulfilling the word of God to Ezekiel just as the promise that was kept for Jeremiah 40 Jubilees after Messiah's first coming?Should we consider it important that the year of the Feast days approaching in 2015-2016 may also mark the 70th Jubilee from the year of the very 1st Jubilee in the Promised Land after the Jordan river crossing led by Joshua (Yehoshua)?? Forty is an important number for God as is 70 in the prophecies of Daniel and Jubilees are important dates on God's Biblically appointed calendar. Abraham arrived in the promised land 40 Jubilees after Adam. Yeshua (Jesus) arrived 40 Jubilees after Abraham. And now the 40th Jubilee after Messiah's teaching ministry stands magnificently before us. To top it off, we are converging on the precipice of the 70th Jubilee celebration since Israel entered the covenant Promised Land some 3,500 years ago and this time frame just happens to also mark the 70th Feast of Weeks (Pentecost/Shavuot) since the U.N. declared Judah's state leading to re-entering the land of Promise under the Law of Return. One thing we do know for sure, history records that war and conflict raged in Israel very near the time frames of the previous Feast Day eclipses. Is that too on the horizon?

PRAYER ALERT November 28, 2012: Today’s News with Biblical Views:
1) Muslims Claim Netanyahu Plans to Build ‘False’ Holy Temple 2) Muslim Waqf Worried by Right-Wing Likud 3) Palestinian envoy predicts historic UN vote recognizing the state of Palestine
PRAYER ALERT October 12, 2012: Perilous Times The Republican Jewish Coalition presents “Perilous Times,” a mini-documentary in which Israeli experts and everyday citizens candidly discuss their concerns about the current U.S.-Israel relationship...



PRAYER ALERT August 5, 2012: Today, I'd ask you to begin to pray each day leading up to the U.N.'s upcoming General Assembly meeting of its 193 nation members. You may want to check your “Biblical” calendar, because this year, the UN General Assembly's 67th General Debate begins September 25 and continues through October 1, 2012.The 25th is the eve of Yom Kippur. The 1st of October… the beginning of Tabernacles. The Palestinians say this September will be different… and Businessweek reports Abbas to move on UN membership bid in September. You can watch the webcast live here. Coincidence? No. God has none on His calendar.

PRAYER ALERT July 23, 2012: As gravely warned in the October 21, 2011 Prayer Alert below, terrorism continues to strike across Iraq. Three days after Ramadan began on July 20th, the BBC reports Iraq: Wave of attacks in Baghdad and north 'kills 91'
"A string of bomb attacks and shootings in Baghdad and north of the capital has killed at least 91 people, say security and medical officials. Many of those killed were security forces - who appear to have been a prime target, correspondents say. One of the worst-hit places was Taji, a Sunni neighborhood some 20km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, where at least 24 people were killed. At least 172 people were wounded on one of the bloodiest days of the year. Some 13 Iraqi towns and cities were hit in the spate of apparently coordinated attacks.""Violence dipped in Iraq following the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, but sectarian violence has returned across the country in recent months amid worsening political tensions. At least 237 people were killed during June, making it one of the bloodiest months since US troops withdrew in December."
In addition, in the report, the BBC summarizes the 2012 terrorism so far:
• 3 July: At least 40 killed and many more wounded in series of attacks across Iraq • 13 June: Wave of bombings kills 84 and injures nearly 300 in deadliest day since US troops withdrew last December • 4 June: More than 20 people killed in bomb attack in Baghdad • 20 March: At least 45 people die in series of coordinated attacks including car bombs in Kerbala city that kill at least 13 • 23 Feb: At least 55 people killed and hundreds injured in wave of bombings and shootings across the country • 27 Jan: A suicide car bomb kills at least 32 and injures about 60 in predominantly Shia Muslim district of Baghdad
Like a modern day Esau, that opposed Jacob, the Arab League backs Palestinian plan on UN status
Arab foreign ministers have backed Palestinian plans to seek an upgrade to their status at the United Nations to that of a non-member state, Palestinian officials said. But no decision was taken on when the application would be made, with the Arab League postponing such a decision until its next meeting in Cairo on September 5, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP late on Sunday. The UN membership question was one of several issues raised at a meeting in Qatar of the Arab League's Follow Up Committee on the peace process on Sunday night, which was also attended by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.


PRAYER ALERT July 7, 2012: Today, Fox News reports that: 1) Iran lawmakers say they will close the Strait of Hormuz if threatened and that 2) Iran is practicing missile war games to attack U.S. bases in the Middle East.Whitehouse: For Immediate Release July 06, 2012
Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions
Perhaps the 'Super Derecho' woke The White House to today's X-Class threat from our own Sun or a nuclear Iran... PRAYER ALERT July 5, 2012: Iran: We can destroy US bases 'minutes after an attack'
"DUBAI -- Iran has threatened to destroy U.S. military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes of being attacked, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, as Revolutionary Guards extended test-firing of ballistic missiles into a third day. Israel has hinted it may attack Iran if diplomacy fails to secure a halt to its disputed nuclear energy program. The United States also has mooted military action as a last-resort option but has frequently nudged the Israelis to give time for intensified economic sanctions to work against Iran."These bases are all in range of our missiles, and the occupied lands (Israel) are also good targets for us," Amir Ali Haji Zadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted by FARS news agency as saying."
Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government
"Libya's top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country's first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Saturday. While the elections for a 200-member National Congress is unlikely to grant a majority to any one faction, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies are confident they can join their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt at the helm of leadership."
We need to be on watch for the building clash of civilization. There’s a threat opposing and approaching Israel but it is not limited to a Mideast conflict. The building rage will deeply harm the freedom and nations of "The West" as well.

PRAYER ALERT July 1, 2012: Who would have imagined it but underwriters in the insurance industry today is now a big part of the story on Iran as they have halted insurance coverage on the shipments of oil. The Times of Israel reports today: Tehran admits sanctions taking a toll
"The EU, which accounted for around 18 percent of Iran’s oil exports, said earlier this week that all contracts for importing Iranian oil will have to be terminated from Sunday. Also, European companies will no longer be involved in insuring Iranian oil." In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney welcomed the EU oil embargo. He said in a statement that the US and EU “are committed to holding Iran accountable for failing to meet its international obligations,” showing “the seriousness with which the international community views the challenge of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
January 10, 1980 Pittsburg Post Gazzette


PRAYER ALERT June 25, 2012: Israel ‘will be destroyed’ if it attacks our nuclear program
"DUBAI – A high-ranking Iranian general said on Saturday Israeli military action against Iran’s nuclear program would lead to the collapse of the Jewish state, Fars news agency reported. Last week’s round of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers in Moscow failed to secure a breakthrough, heightening fears Israel might take unilateral military action to curb Iran’s nuclear activities. The two sides agreed to a follow-up meeting of technical experts on July 3, saving the process from outright failure." “They cannot do the slightest harm to the [Iranian] revolution and the system,” Brigadier General Mostafa Izadi, deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, told Fars.
Islamists cheer, Israel wary after Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt election
"LONDON — Islamists around the world hailed Mohamed Morsi’s election as Egypt’s first freely chosen president as a victory for their cause on Sunday while the West, Gulf states and Israel reacted with caution, wary of his political agenda. Closely watched from Gaza to the Gulf, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate’s win over former army general Ahmed Shafik was widely seen as an historic event with far-reaching consequences beyond Egypt’s borders.“The Egyptian nation did not elect a president just for Egypt, but for the Arab and Islamic nations too,” said Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, which hopes Mr. Morsi may end Cairo’s co-operation with an Israeli blockade."
PRAYER ALERT June 17, 2012: Today is amazing. Two ancient rivals and captors of Israel are holding their national elections today. Greece is facing financial collapse as Egypt faces political upheaval and potential anarchy.


PRAYER ALERT May 13, 2012:
As an update to the November 23, 2011 alert below the Wall Street Journal reported today that Bahrain, Saudis to Cinch Ties:
"Last December, Saudi King Abdullah, perceiving the Gulf as surrounded by revolutions and under encroachment by Shiite Muslim Iran, made an impassioned appeal for fellow Sunni Muslim royals to join forces. "You all know that we are targeted in our safety and security," he told the kings, emirs and sultans of the Gulf, who were gathered in their gold-braided black cloaks for a summit in a gilded palace in the Saudi capital of Riyadh."
PRAYER ALERT May 1, 2012: Today, Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi announced that Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Candidate Dr. Mohammed Morsi and his supporters will liberate Jerusalem and establish the city as the capital of the Islamic Caliphate of the United States of Arabs and liberate Gaza. He declares that the capital will not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina as the massive crowd chants "millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem". Note: YouTube deleted the video report.

PRAYER ALERT April 27, 2012: Fox News and ABC News both report on an Aviation Week release that states:
"As tensions between Tehran, Washington and Tel Aviv continue to mount over Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons technologies, the U.S. has quietly begun a deployment of its premier stealthy fighter, the twin-engine F-22, to the United Arab Emirates. Multiple Lockheed Martin aircraft will operate out of Al Dhafra Air Base there, industry sources say. This is the same base from which U.S. U-2s and Global Hawk UAVs have been launched since shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
Interestingly, nuclear talks with Iran will resume on May 23, 2012 in Baghdad, Iraq which is just 25 miles north of ancient Babylon. Babylon was capital of the Babylonian empire that ruled the world from 612 BC to 539 BC and home to the “Tower of Babel” (see Genesis 11:1-8).Today, the largest U.S. Embassy in the world stands there on the site of the ancient royal palace built by Nebuchadnezzar where God pronounced judgment on the Babylonian Empire with the handwriting on the wall מנא מנא תקל וּפַרְסִֽין that none of the wise men of the King could decipher as described in Daniel 5 just before the Medes and the Persians attacked.

PRAYER ALERT April 13, 2012: Is a Global Genocide Against Christians Underway? CNN News reports:
JERUSALEM, Israel -- While Saudi Arabia is one of the worst persecutors of Christians in the Middle East, it is a problem that's getting worse throughout the region. Since 2003, Islamic radicals have bombed 70 churches in Iraq alone. And that's only the beginning. "We're seeing a very vicious attack on Christians in a number of countries. In fact, in many places in Iraq we're seeing a religious cleansing," Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, told CBN News. "That's a euphemism. It means that Christians are being killed and driven out," she said. Shea said the phenomenon has affected the two largest Christian populations in the Middle East. "About two thirds of the Christians in Iraq have already left," Shea said. "In Egypt, we're just beginning to see those with green cards, those with visas are fleeing. Those who can leave are leaving."
PRAYER ALERT March 28, 2012: Zechariah 14:2 "And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem..." Global March Aims to 'Liberate Jerusalem' "JERUSALEM, Israel -- On Friday, organizers of the Global March to Jerusalem hope to further their goal of liberating Jerusalem from the "illegal Zionist occupation." It's a concept they apply to all of "occupied Palestine."

The group chose March 30 to coincide with Palestinian "Land Day" and predicts "massive marches" at Israel's northern and southern borders, the "West Bank" (Israel's biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria) and the Gaza Strip.""Rising Muslim populations in Europe and the U.S. equate Zionism with oppression and promote the theory that the Jewish people are the interlopers and have no legitimate claim to Israel or Jerusalem. Iran is actively promoting the event, the Israeli-based Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported earlier this month. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran should support all movements and groups operating against Jerusalem.Spiritually, the march "against" Jerusalem just one week before Passover is deeply related to the grand mufti's demand that all churches in the Middle East be destroyed. Times are prophetic and perilous.
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." Zechariah 12:2-3
Christian Workers in Gulf Countries Warned About Saudi Cleric’s Call to ‘Destroy Churches’ (CNSNews.com) – "A call by Saudi Arabia’s top religious authority for a demolition of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula has prompted an organization representing Filipino workers in the region to advise caution and discretion." "Churches are outlawed in Saudi Arabia, but other Arab Gulf states do tolerate a limited number of non-Islamic places of worship, for mostly foreign Christians and small groups of local believers.""On March 12, the Saudi grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, told a visiting Kuwaiti delegation that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed. He cited Mohammed as having said on his deathbed – according to a hadith – “There are not to be two religions in the [Arabian] Peninsula.””


PRAYER ALERT March 16, 2012: Just as The Telegraph reports that a British High Court will hear the government's presentation that employers can ban wearing a cross by Christians at work in the UK the Grand Mufti Announces “Destruction of All Churches" in Arabian Peninsula; Christians Enraged
"Saudi Arabia's highest religious official announced Monday that Christianity will not be tolerated in the Arabian Peninsula, proclaiming it "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region," Bikyamasar reported. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the grand mufti, based his statement on the Islamic belief which states that only Islam and no other religion should be followed in the region. The mufti's declaration was in response to Kuwait's call for a ban on construction of non-Muslim places of worship, the report said. The mufti further added that the move should be followed by the Kuwaiti government as well, given that the country is a part of the peninsular region."
Daniel's prophecy is engaging right before our eyes and no one seems to be looking. Those that remain silent must be deaf as those that publically follow Messiah Yeshua face extinction in the Arabian Peninsula, the lands of Sheba and Dedan!! Yet we ignore this and continue our oil and gas trade as the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof" (see Ezekiel 38:13).Not only is the Bible true, it has an urgent message if you'll just hear it because the Bible is in today's news!!
"I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them." Daniel 7:21
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia is the most senior Muslim religious and legal authority in Saudi Arabia. The Grand Mufti is appointed by the King under the legal system of Saudi Arabia which is based on Sharia Islamic law of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah (traditions) of prophet Muhammad which are declared to be the Saudi Arabia's constitution. Criminal punishments include public beheading, stoning, amputation, torture, lashing, flogging and imprisonment.Apostasy is listed as a serious criminal offence along with witchcraft and sorcery. In addition to the regular police, Saudi Arabia has a secret police, the Mabahith, and their "religious" police, the Mutawa who will probably be asked to help enforce the fatwa in the region.

Next to the land of the Grand Mufti sits The Promised Land - Israel. Please accept this call to all prayer warriors as rockets continue to rain on tiny Israel from Gaza as fire comes down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men!


According to an Israel Defense Force spokesperson: This map shows the rocket's range as to the population of southern Israel, and how much time people have to take cover given the distance the rockets travel.

Those living in the 10 kilometer range have 15 seconds to find safety once the alarm sounds, those in the 20 km range have 30 seconds, 30 km – 45 seconds, and 40 km have a minute. With the increased range of the rocket fire from Gaza, nearly 1 million people, or a seventh of Israel’s population live in danger under threat from Hamas rocket attacks. The goal of operation "Cast Lead" has been to reduce the number of rocket attacks against the inhabitants of southern Israel.

Population Figures from 2007:
Ashkelon – 108,900 Ashdod – 207,000 Yavne – 32,200 Gadera – 17,700 Kiryat Malachi – 19,600 Kiryat Gat – 47,800 Sderot – 19,300 Be’er Sheva – 531, 000 Ofakim – 24,700 Netivot – 25,600
PRAYER ALERT February 3, 2012: Iran's Supreme Leader Threatens Israel and the U.S. before preparing to launch new military exercises as reports that Israel is preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has stated that a possible Israeli offensive against Iran will take place in the 2012 Spring time frame.

PRAYER ALERT January 8, 2012: Tehran's Press TV is stating U.S. troops are moving into Israel. The United Arab Emirates Al Arabiya reiterates the same story.

PRAYER ALERT January 5, 2012: Today, the BBC provides an amazing, historic timeline graphic titled "The Path of Protest"... Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests
"In December 2010, a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police. Below traces an extraordinary year as pro-democracy rebellions erupted across the Middle East."
PRAYER ALERT January 4, 2012: Israel National News gives us stories of movement out of Damascus that reminds me of Jeremiah 49:24 "Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor."
• An advisory board within the 22-nation Arab League is warning the organization to pull its monitors from Syria. • Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has fled Damascus together with his family, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reports.
It’s very serious now in Syria just like it was almost a year ago in Egypt. Over the coming weeks as we watch the events unfold there, please join me and many others in prayer for those in the Biblical land of Antioch and Damascus which is the home of over 2 million Christians. Homs, which is the center of the opposition upheaval has the second largest Christian population in Syria. Antioch, as we know is where the disciples were first called Christians.We know the spiritual conflict is really significant when we consider Isaiah’s Damascus forecast and Paul’s words as he gives his last prophetic “end days” teaching in 2 Timothy 3 where Paul mentions Antioch as one of the locations of his own persecution.

PRAYER ALERT December 26, 2011: Breitbart reports that Iran says ready to expand military links with Iraq. It sounds like the two horns of the ram of Daniel 8 are coming together...
"Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a week after the exit of US forces from the neighbouring Arab country. 
General Hassan Firouzabadi hailed the "forced departure" of the US and allied forces that he said "was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government," the state Islamic Republic News Agency reported.The statements were made in messages Firouzabadi sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Lieutenant General Babaker Zebari, and to Iraq's acting defence minister, Saadun al-Dulaimi, IRNA said.The departure of the US troops "was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government," he said."I hope the humiliating failure of the United States after nine years of occupying Iraq will serve as a lesson for them to never think of attacking another country," he said.Firouzabadi added that Iran was now "ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq."Zebari led a delegation of Iraqi military chiefs to Iran last month to explore greater cooperation between the two defence forces."
PRAYER ALERT December 24, 2011: Fox News reports on: Possibility of Civil War in Iraq Between Shiites and Sunnis



You'll find concern on this great risk following U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in the October 21, 2011 PRAYER ALERT.

For a better understanding of the nightmarish political tension and religious instability, just consider for a moment what has happened this week in Iraq. Can you imagine the state of affairs if the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed a Presidential arrest order on Vice President Biden?

Well, following accusations by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's government confirmed an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, accusing al-Hashimi of ordering his personal security team to run hit squad attacks within Iraq. The Iraqi Vice President immediately fled Baghdad for Kurdistan.

PRAYER ALERT it looks like November 29, 1979 but it's 2011: Iran students storm British Embassy in Tehran "Iranian students stormed the UK Embassy in Tehran Tuesday, breaking down the door, throwing papers and replacing the British flag with an Iranian one, a CNN crew witnessed."

PRAYER ALERT November 23, 2011: Are we staring prophecy right between the eyes of the beast? 

Today, the world has heard that a Quartet member "Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, embraced the fiery rhetoric of the Cold War Wednesday as he threatened to target and if necessary destroy America's European missile defense shield once it is built. 

This huge problem will not go away, one day it will become a world crisis brought on by the Russian bear.

In what may be the most serious blow to U.S. - Russia relations since President Barack Obama came to power, Medvedev raised the prophetic prospect of Russia launching missile attacks on nearby countries. 

The threat is not just to EU member states but others that may seek NATO's protection down the road. This is the threat that arrive in the headlines as reality: "I have given the armed forces the task of drawing up plans to destroy the information and command and control systems of the [U.S./NATO] anti-missile shield," Mr. Medvedev said."

Medvedev also warns the U.S. and Europe that sanctions against Iran are unacceptable as "such measures would hurt the chances of renewing talks with Tehran over its nuclear program."

In addition to these, I have posted several other comments in this Zechariah Vision prayer alert series and elsewhere on this website about Yemen and its future horror headline importance.

Take this New York Times report as just one example. It tells us:
"After more than three decades of autocratic rule, President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed an agreement on Wednesday that immediately transferred power to his vice president, bowing to unrelenting street protests and raising hopes for an end to a political crisis that brought this impoverished nation to the brink of collapse. 
This makes Mr. Saleh the fourth Arab leader to be forced from power this year by popular uprisings that have shaken the Middle East and North Africa.

Don't be deceived, the deal offers no guarantee that it will restore calm to a nation fractured by 10 months of political instability and suffering from a power vacuum that groups linked to Al Qaeda have exploited with increasing boldness."
Yemen is a big problem.

While it may not seem connected, Yemen's uprising against Mr. Saleh is earth shaking news for that dry and parched land whose 24 million people face critical water and food shortages as the oil beneath the sand dwindles. 

Things have not changed, they are just coming into prophetic focus.

Many Bible verses speak of seven nations living in and around ancient Israel.

The Bible notes that the ancient nations are the 1) Hittites, 2) Girgashites, 3) Amorites, 4) Canaanites, 5) Perizzites, 6) Hivites, and the 7) Jebusites. These seven nations were more numerous and mightier than Israel. 

This is shown to us Deuteronomy 7. 

Today, the uprising of radical Islamists within their Sharia combination of government and religious power in a number of Muslim countries is mistakenly seen by the "West" as a rise of people looking toward democracy which is thought to be a good thing.

It's not. The uprisings are the will of the people all right, but it's not democracy they seek, it is Sharia control. 

 Joshua 11:1-5 records that hostile nations were against Israel under Joshua's military leadership. 

There were the Canaanites to the east and to the west the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Hivites. 

These are six of the seven nations named in Deuteronomy and Joshua 11:19 clearly tells us Israel's armies did not destroy them all. 

The Hivites of Gibeon were spared and the Girgashites aren't mentioned here at all, so five of the seven fell in antiquity including the leader of them all, King Jabin of Hazor.

Jabin's name means "whom God observes" which is much like the popular saying "know your enemy."

What does this have to do with today? A lot!!

The Arab League or more formally, the League of Arab States was founded in Egypt in 1945 by 1) Egypt, 2) Iraq, 3) Lebanon, 4) Saudi Arabia, 5) Syria, 6) Yemen and 7) Transjordan (renamed Jordan, as of 1950).

These seven founding Arab League members were established by the Protocols of Alexandria.

It's like a Biblical blueprint: four (4) leaders have now fallen from power in the "Islamic Awakening" as it's known in the Mideast. 

The Arab League should remind us of the Biblical account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob and it counterpart the Organization of Islamic Cooperation should remind us of the tribes of Ishmael. Both point to the pale green horse of Revelation 6. 

 The western media calls the latest chaos, "the Arab Spring"... and Biblical prophecy says "five will fall". Are these five tied to prophecy related to the collapse of leadership established after the modern nation of Israel was established? The prophecy is from Revelation 17:10 and it was noted in the September 23, 2011 PRAYER ALERT below -- and it is well worth repeating here again.

Also, let's not forget that immediately after Israel declared itself an independent state, the armies of five Arab League nations of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq attacked Israel without any provocation. This sounds like a story out of the book of Joshua doesn't it?.

For Bible prophecy students, Syria should remind you of the prophetic words of Revelation... 

And if we are to be wise, it is well worth considering that four of the seven "kings" aka the rulers of the original Arab League States "have fallen" within the last eight years since December 13, 2003.

That was the day Saddam Hussein was captured when he was found hiding in a six foot hole in the ground outside his childhood home of Tikrit. 

And now just a month ago, Lybia's Muammar Gaddafi was found in a drainage pipe outside Sirte:
"Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits, and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. "The beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction". Revelation 17:9-11
Following the execution of Iraq's dictator Hussein, Libya's dictator Muammar Gaddafi was felled from power as has Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Ben Ali has fled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the western gateway to Mecca. Amazingly, in 2008 Ben Ali predicted the fall of Egypt, the take over of the Muslim Brotherhood and the revolt in Syria.

The Jerusalem Post reported the story in December of 2010: 'Tunisian premier predicts Muslim Brotherhood takeover' 

By Herb Keinon Last Updated: 12/08/2010 14:28 "The moderate Arab states' fear of Iran and Islamic radicalism continued to pour forth from documents released by WikiLeaks Tuesday night, with the Tunisian President predicting in a conversation with a senior US diplomat two years ago that the Muslim Brotherhood would take over Egypt sooner or later.  

According to a cable written on March 3, 2008 by Robert Godec, the U.S. ambassador in Tunisia, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali told Assistant Secretary of State David Welch that "Tunisia was happy it was part of the Maghreb, and not part of Levant or Gulf." The dispatch said Ben Ali "opined that the situation in Egypt is 'explosive,' adding that sooner or later the Muslim Brotherhood would take over. He added that Yemen and Saudi Arabia are also facing real problems. Overall, the region is 'explosive.'" Ben Ali said that Syria was a source of concern in the region, since it is "acting for Iran, and the later is fueling regional problems." Ben Ali, according to the dispatch, said "he 'does not trust' the Shia."

Ben Ali did not see his own demise but it appears now that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad may one day be the 5th Arab League leader to fall.

Yet "one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while".  

Astonishingly, two thousand years after it was written, Revelation 17:10 tells us plainly that five of the seven end time leaders, yes five will fall

If you ask me, the prophecy of Revelation 17 and today's Esau like Arab League nations are tied together. 

We now have a solid link between the ancient nations that opposed Joshua as well as Israel's armies that fought Arab League members in 1948, in 1967 and 1973. 

It seems that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will fall too, but it may be another.

Bashar al-Assad may be the fifth dictator of the original Arab League nations to lose power through extreme violence and Syria will be the second of the three nations (Egypt, Syria and Jordan) now witnessed the Arab League leaders of 1) Iraq (Saddam Hussein), 2) Tunisia (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali), 3) Egypt (Hosni Mubarak) and now 4) Yemen's (Ali Abdullah Saleh) fall from power right before our eyes as they have been stripped from their autocratic rule and dictatorial power. These four "kings" have fallen as the world watched.

Now, Syria's Bashar al-Assad is on the threshold of losing his power and government as the Sunni warriors oppose their Alawite 'king'. Even Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he must step down.

We really need to keep our eye on Ergodan. Ankara should not play a part in NATO.

How is it that Erogodan can assume such power? 

If these nations are indeed the seven "kings" of Revelation reflected first in the book of Joshua, then one of the seven today is the government which was (in power)... will come back into power... and go on to destruction by the sword in the valley of decision. 

This is a repeat also prophesied by Joel 3:4, Joel 3:10, Joel 3:14-16, Joel 3:21 and Zechariah 9:7. 

This looks as if Ottoman Islam only feigned death at the end of World War I with the fall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. It may be reborn as a new beast - revived to rise up again against Jacob as a mighty man like Esau with his 400 men. These prophecies look like a repeat of the fall of King Jabin of Hazor described in Joshua 11. 

Today's Jabin whoever he is, will rise from the chaos of the "Islamic Awakening" down the road in an attack against Israel to unify the hatred of and nations of the Mideast against Israel. The western response will be divide Israel for peace. 

We will see the Bible in real time as the Arab League seeks Palestinian statehood if Israel agrees to divide its people for peace...
"Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives." Genesis 33:1
And like the original Arab League, this may very well be led by the nation with the greatest might and wealth in the desert sands. Saudi Arabia raises the question. Do you suppose Esau and his men were came from the Arab area?

Such unification efforts will probably extend beyond the seven founding members of the Arab League which is now highly fractured.

 
These include the six nation group known as the Gulf Cooperation Council which includes the six nations of The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. They are: the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. 

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has now called on Gulf Arab states to move beyond cooperation into the of unity the six nations into a single entity. 

For Bible prophecy students that call for unification, this should ring a bell and raise the question that perhaps the preconceived idea of a one world government is in fact a restored Muslim Caliphate.

A Caliphate founded on the creeds of Islam that bind them together in government religion against Israel. The Bible after all, is laser focused on Jerusalem, not Rome. 

We have to know the goal of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council's charter. The 1981 GCC founding charter states (underlines mine for emphasis): 

"Being fully aware of the ties of special relations, common characteristics and similar systems founded on the creed of Islam which bind them; and Desiring to effect coordination, cooperation and integration between them in all fields; and, Having the conviction that coordination, cooperation, and integration between them serve the sublime objectives of the Arab Nation; and, In pursuit of the goal of strengthening cooperation and reinforcement of the links between them; and In an endeavor to complement efforts already begun in all essential areas that concern their peoples and realize their hopes for a better future on the path to unity of their States; and In conformity with the Charter of the League of Arab States which calls for the realization of closer relations and stronger bonds; and In order to channel their efforts to reinforce and serve Arab and Islamic causes, Have agreed as follows: 


We must keep our eyes wide open as watchmen and pray, and we must also remember while six is prophetic, the prophecy says there are ten.

So as already noted, there is much more to study, learn and pray about. There is much more to prepare our hearts and the hearts of others for - as we look at these powerful events in the sea of chaos and hatred of the Mideast nations that want to destroy tiny Israel. 

The terror stage is being set for monumental change within the Mideast lands and people surrounding Israel that will impact the world with an attack.
    
Today there are 22 Arab League Nations. One includes a group that the UN does not recognize, just yet... it is the re-label on a Roman map called Palestine. 

That is the story line of Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet.

Regarding The League of Arab States we can know two things:

1) The Palestine Liberation Organization was admitted in 1976. Egypt's founding membership was suspended in 1979 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel; the league's headquarters were moved from Cairo, Egypt, to Tunis, Tunisia and...

2) In 1987 Arab leaders decided to renew diplomatic ties with Egypt. Egypt was readmitted to the league in 1989 and the league's headquarters were moved back to Cairo.

Does this not tell us that Egypt is a beast which was and is not - as chaos builds there each day

Could Egypt's future leader also be an eighth? 

I don't know, but I know we need to study Isaiah 19 and we must all pray for the Peace of Jerusalem (Psalms 122:6). 

You should review Isaiah's warning here: The Oracle of Egypt. Egypt is a key, after all, the Egyptian government first proposed The Arab League in 1943. They will have something to do with a future conflict in Israel and although they can, they will not help Israel despite their peace treaty.

 
Map showing the Arab League members colored by the decade of joining. Color codes are:
 

Is it just me, or should we ask if the earth's shaking was just a coincidence the very day Yemen's leader stepped down, around the world... 

We are not to just be observers of these things. We need to be great prayer warriors and a faithful witness to Muslims when given the chance. Isaalmasih.net gives us some solid advice as witnesses, believers and followers of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob:
Be courteous and loving. Reflect interest in their beliefs. 
Allow them time to articulate their views. 
Be acquainted with their basic beliefs and their terms (Isa = Jesus).  
Be willing to examine the Qur’an concerning their beliefs. 
Take time to respond to all sincere questions. 
Point out the redemptive work of Yeshua (Isa) for salvation. 
Share that salvation is a gift and not to be earned by works.  
Pray for the fullness of the Holy Spirit to provide wisdom.  
Be willing to become a friend and a personal witness to Muslims. 
Stress that because of Yeshua, one may have salvation for eternity.
But above all show kindness and pray and that the Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh will teach you in that same hour what you must say. (see Luke 12:12).

PRAYER ALERT November 22, 2011: The Imam’s and Mullahs believe Israel to have an illegal occupation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. From Iran’s state news agency FARS… Iran Mulling Creation of 100-million-Strong Muslim Basij Army 

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi announced on Sunday that Tehran is studying formation of a 100-million-strong Muslim world Basij force. 

"We will form the 100-million-strong Basij force of the Muslim world to materialize the promise of the late Imam Khomeini about the freedom of the noble Quds," Naqdi said. He underlined that Basij will bravely and steadfastly continue its struggle and fight for the freedom of Quds from the occupation of Zionist regime and to release all mankind from the claws of the world arrogant powers.” 

“Naqdi's remarks comes against the backdrop the Muslim world's popular uprisings and revolutions which are similar to what happened in Iran in 1979 under the leadership of the late Imam Khomeini.““Regional analysts and officials have underlined that Iran's radical Islamic Revolution led by the Late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, is the source of inspiration for the growing tides of Islamic awakening in the region.”

Check these terror words from a 1981 speech by Imam Ayatollah Khomeini that is credited with the what we call the Arab Spring, but those in the Mideast call it the Islamic Awakening. That term awakening reminds me of Revelation 17:8: 

"It is hoped that by the noble nation’s uprisings, certain treacherous leaders who rule over Muslims and Islam and are hand-in-hand with Israel act upon the orders of the U.S. in opposition to the interests of Muslims will be cast from the scene and buried in the grave of history... They should be deposed from their rule over Muslims." 

"The noble people of Egypt and Iraq and other countries who are under the domination of hypocrites should rise up and not listen to the corrupt loudspeakers of the criminal pseudo-Muslims, and fear not the fragile power of these treacherous people.""The nation, government, Majlis, and the Armed Forces of Iran with an Islamic solidarity, compose of one single people by Divine Unity and are determined to stand against any satanic power which is encroaching upon the rights of human beings, and defend the oppressed masses and support dear Quds and Lebanon until Quds and Palestine have been returned to Muslims." 

"It is hoped that this revolution will serve as a divine spark for creating a great explosion among the oppressed masses and that it will lead to the dawn of the Revolution of the Imam of the Time, may all souls be sacrificed before him."

PRAYER ALERT November 19, 2011: Arutz Sheva reports Iran and Saudis Acting Out Ancient Messiah Prophecy? 

"Jews familiar with the ancient Yalkut Shimoni notice recent tensions between Iran, Saudi Arabia match prophecy regarding the Messiah. 

Jews familiar with an ancient compilation of Aggadic exegesis called Yalkut Shimoni noticed in recent weeks that current tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia matches a prophecy it contains regarding the year in which the Messiah – the King who redeems Israel and the world – is to appear. 

In particular, the recently revealed Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. and subsequent reports that the Arab nations are pressuring the West to attack Iran, appear to fit the sequence of events predicted in the Yalkut Shimoni. 

In to the part of the book dealing with the Book of Isaiah, the following passage appears: 

"Rabbi Yitzchak said: 'In the year in which the Messiah-King appears, all the nations of the world are provoking each other. The King of Persia provokes an Arab king and the Arab king turns to Aram for advice. And the King of Persia goes back and destroys the entire world. 

And all the nations of the world are in panic and distress and they fall upon their faces and are seized with pains like those of a woman giving birth, and Israel are in panic and distress and asking 'where shall we go? Where shall we go?,' and He says to them 'my sons, do not fear; all that I have done, I have done only for you. Why are you afraid? Do not fear, your time of redemption has come, and the final redemption is not like the first redemption, because the first redemption was followed by sorrow and servitude under other kingdoms, but the final redemption is not followed by sorrow and servitude under other kingdoms." 

You need to know Persia is currently known as Iran, and an Arab king – or the Arab king – can be reasonably understood, in modern eyes, as referring to the king of [Saudi] Arabia, the Arab homeland. 

This passage is relatively well-known and oft-quoted, and some modern versions of it substitute "Edom" for "Aram." Ancient Jewish references to "Edom" are nowadays generally seen as referring to Europe or the West. "Aram" refers to a part of ancient Mesopotamia, roughly congruent to the northern part of modern Iraq and eastern Syria. The instability in precisely this area is reportedly what most concerns the Saudis, as a U.S. pullout from Iraq looms..."

PRAYER ALERT November 16, 2011: Haaretz reports: Top Iran general: Blast disrupted anti-Israel weapons program 

"General says Saturday's explosion at military base 'temporarily stopped' weapons research program to be used against Israel; Iran denies Israel behind blast. A blast at a military base in Iran happened while the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) were working on a weapon research program to be used against Israel, Iran's armed forces chief of staff said Wednesday. Saturday's explosion at a military base near Tehran killed 17 IRGC members. "The incident happened during a research program which could have become a severe punch on Israeli regime's mouth," General Hassan Firouzabadi said."

PRAYER ALERT November 13, 2011 Explosions rocked munitions plant in Iran over the weekend. 

Does Debka give us rumor or truth when it says "Iran loses top missile expert in explosions sparked by failed bid to fit nuclear warhead on Shahab-3." In another report Debka states that "As windows shattered in Tehran, the streets were awash with rumors that Iran was under attack, or that the regime had staged a failed nuclear test. Foreign businessmen were said to be fleeing the country."

PRAYER ALERT November 11, 2011: It's 11.11.11 and the storm of prophecy moves on the road north from Egypt to Iran in today's headlines as Google releases satellite images of Iranian facilities which UN says may be used to develop nuclear weapons. Fox News reported today on a U.S. Weapons Sale to United Arab Emirates. The Iranian News Agency FARS today reports these stories: 

Egyptian Cleric Vows to Issue Fatwa against US, Israel if Iran Attacked TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Egyptian cleric underlined the Egyptian people's readiness to defend Iran against any enemy aggression, and said if the US and Israel dare to attack Iran, he will issue a Fatwa in support of Tehran."

If Israel attacks Iran, I will issue a Fatwa to confront Israel and the US," Head of Islamist 'al-Azmiya' stream Sheikh Ala Mazi Abulezam said on Wednesday."In case of any attack against Iran the Azmiya Tariqat and its followers will have complete preparedness to fight hand in hand with Iran," he added. Abulezam stressed that Tehran is an Islamic capital which should be defended by all Islamic and Arab countries. 

The remarks by the Egyptian cleric came after Israeli President Shimon Peres said on October 4 that an attack on Iran was becoming increasingly more likely."Iran, Russia Ink Agreement on Strategic Security Cooperation "TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior officials of Iran and Russia's national security councils signed an agreement on strategic cooperation between the two countries during a meeting in Moscow on Friday." 

Russian Media Reveal IAEA Lie about 'Foreign Expert' in Iran "TEHRAN (FNA)- The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran appears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helped Tehran advance its nuclear program." 

Cleric Reiterates Iran's Crushing Response to Aggressors "TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Kazzem Sediqi underlined preparedness of the Iranian Armed Forces, and stressed that the country would give a crushing response to enemy aggressions."

PRAYER ALERT November 9, 2011: The U.S. Emergency Broadcast system will be shut down today. Do you remember this old TV image during the threat of the nuclear cold war? 

 Well it seems by chance, the U.N. Nuclear Commission has rolled out a report today on Iran. Strangely, the intelligence for the report has been in the hands of the IAEA for many years, and it seems, Mohamed ElBaradei who is now a leading man in the Egyptian revolution and ouster of Hosni Mubarak may have softened previous IAEA reports in order to appease Iran. 

It is said much the report comes directly from an IAEA report written in 2008 that Nobel Peace Prize winner, ElBaradei never published while he led the UN's nuclear watch group, which contains many of the same conclusions given today about the Iranian nuclear program.

The IAEA reports states Iran Sought Miniaturized Nuclear-Weapon Design "Iran continued working on nuclear weapons at least until last year, including efforts to shrink a Pakistani warhead design to fit atop its ballistic missiles, a report from United Nations inspectors said.
  
The International Atomic Energy Agency, drawing on evidence collected over eight years, reported yesterday that Iran carried out “work on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the testing of components.” 

The document shows that Iran worked to redesign and miniaturize a Pakistani nuclear-weapon design by using a web of front companies and overseas experts, according to the report and an international official familiar with the IAEA’s probe. 

Such a warhead could be mounted on Iran’s Shahab-3 missile, which has the range to reach Israel, according to the IAEA. The report adds to international pressure on Iran to answer questions about its program. It was released amid reports in Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing his Cabinet to support possible military action to halt Iran’s nuclear program."

"In its report, the Vienna-based IAEA said, “some activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device continued after 2003” and “some may still be ongoing.”Until now, atomic inspectors had only voiced concerns publicly about the “possible existence” of weapons work in Iran.""

The agency revealed details of “large-scale high- explosives” experiments conducted near Marivan in 2003. The experiments would have helped Iran calibrate the explosive impact of a bomb’s uranium core, according to the report.

“The information comes from a wide variety of independent sources, including from a number of member states, from the agency’s own efforts and from information provided by Iran itself,” the IAEA said in the document.It is the first time that the IAEA has published a comprehensive analysis of Iran’s nuclear-weapons work. Data before 2003 are more complete than information seen afterward, according to the senior official. The agency shared a copy of the information with Iranian authorities before the report was published, the official said."
   
The Iranian News Agency FARS gives us this urgent report today: "The head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Tuesday that Iran would start a 'street war' in Tel Aviv if its nuclear program was attacked.

"Israel is not big enough to launch a military strike on Iran, but if it takes such a foolish decision, the Iranian military will fight with the Zionist soldiers in Tel Aviv streets... and will force them out of the Palestinian soil," Seyed Hossein Naqavi said. 

 Naqavi also warned, should Tehran's nuclear program be attacked, the battlefield won't be in Iran, but "the entirety of Europe and the US." 

 "Iranian forces will fight with the enemies with maximum might and power all throughout the European and US soil, if Iran comes under attack," he reiterated."The commander of the Iranian Navy says Iran has the right to deploy naval vessels near US coastal waters according to international law.
   
PressTV reports: On Tuesday, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that international law permits all countries to send their naval ships to the open seas, and naval forces of the Islamic Republic are also allowed to sail in these waters, the Mehr news agency reported. He went on to say that the Iranian Navy has the right to sail in waters near the coast of the United States because the coastal waters beyond the territorial waters of the country are regarded as the open sea." 

YNet News gives us this story: Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatens US

"General Hajizadeh says 'if you kill any of us, we will kill dozens of you,' while Ahmadinejad claims Tehran does not need nuclear bomb to confront US. FM Salehi: If we wanted to develop nukes we would declare so openly Islamic Republic escalates rhetoric ahead of IAEA report: A top commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard force threatened to kill "dozens" of American military commanders, should the US kill any one of theirs.

"You also should not forget that American commanders have plenty of presence and travel in the region. If you kill any of us, we will kill dozens of you," Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guards' aerospace division, was quoted by Fars agency on Tuesday as saying."
 
PRAYER ALERT October 31, 2011: Isaiah 17:1 tells us that the prophetic future for Damascus, Syria is bleak. 

Today's news tell of of the rising conflict there. Syria to respond to Arab League plan"CNN -- Syria is due to respond Monday to an Arab League proposal for bringing more than seven months of violence to an end, Qatar's prime minister said Sunday. A meeting between Arab League diplomats and Syrian officials Sunday was "clear and frank," Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim said, using diplomatic code for contentious meetings.

The proposals the Arab League presented are serious about ending violence, he said, according to the emirate's official news agency. Their contents remain secret."

PRAYER ALERT October 30, 2011: US is planning buildup in Gulf after Iraq exit Pentagon draws up plans to reposition forces in case of Iraq flare-up or Iran confrontation "MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran." 

Newsmax reports and they are right, but the time may not be now: A Cataclysmic Regional War is Coming to the Middle East
"War is on its way in the Middle East as Muslim countries are determined to force a showdown over the future of Israel, Ronald Reagan's assistant defense secretary Frank Gaffney warned in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview. 

"I'm afraid there's a war coming, a very serious, perhaps cataclysmic regional war," he said. "It will be presumably over, at least in part, the future existence of the state of Israel. It may involve all of its neighbors, as they have in the past, attacking Israel to try, as they say, to drive the Jews into the sea."It may involve the use of nuclear weapons," Gaffney predicted. 

"But whatever form it takes and whenever it occurs, it is unlikely to be contained to that region, and we must do everything we can to prevent freedom's enemies from thinking they have an opportunity to engage in that kind of warfare."That means standing "absolutely, unmistakably" as one with Israel and doing everything to prevent Iran getting its hands on nuclear weapons."


"AMMAN (Reuters) - Western powers would cause an "earthquake" in the Middle East if they intervened in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Sunday, after protesters demanded outside protection from a crackdown that has killed 3,000 people.Syrian officials were to hold more talks in Qatar with delegates of the Arab League, which wants to convene a dialogue in Cairo between the Syrian authorities and their opponents.

The League's two-week deadline for the planned dialogue to start expires Sunday, with Assad showing no signs of easing the crackdown, which is drawing increasing international outrage and criticism even from previously cautious Arab countries.Syria, as Assad noted in his interview with Britain's Sunday Telegraph, sits at the heart of the volatile Middle East, where it borders Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan."It is the faultline, and if you play with the ground, you will cause an earthquake," he said. "Do you want to see another Afghanistan, or tens of Afghanistans?""

PRAYER ALERT October 24, 2011: One State Solution? You may not have heard this term before, but it is the agenda. Notice the subtle words from Jordan's King Abdullah in this CNN report today: 

"Speaking to CNN on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting on the shores of the Dead Sea, the king also expressed serious doubts that Israel was serious about making peace with the Palestinians. "I am one of the most optimistic people you'll meet in the Middle East, and for the first time I am very pessimistic about the Israelis and Palestinians moving forward," he said. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says all the right things about how to reach a solution, the king said, but he sighed deeply when asked if Netanyahu was sincere. "From what I have seen of the political system in Israel... Israel is not really interested in a two-state solution," Abdullah said.

"And what's the other option? I think the one-state solution has tremendous negative implications on all of us, including the Israelis," he said.And he pleaded with the Americans not to disengage from the region during U.S. election season, warning that to so do risks war."That would be disastrous because whenever there is a vacuum, whenever there is a status quo, there's usually a war. And so we're missing a tremendous opportunity," he said. The focus has to remain on the Israelis and Palestinians because they are the central issue in the region, he said."I think the Arab Spring was a good opportunity for some to ignore the core issue that's always been here, that is, the future of the Israelis and Palestinians," he said."

In a Haaretz report from November 2007, then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, spoke of the "one-state" solution. It is what the conflict that the Bible warns us about: 

"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished."

These words are spoken just as a 7.2 magnitude earthquake kills hundreds in eastern Turkey while the Arab Spring raged on shaking the Middle East. 

We have seen know Libya's military ruler Muammar Qaddafi killed by his own people, shot after being found hiding in a hole. This is all too reminiscent of the capture of Saddam Hussein who like Qaddafi was hiding in a hole in Iraq.

I just overheard a PBS radio show mistakenly talking about democratic elections in Tunisia that will also soon come to Libya as well.Kinda like the ones in Egypt right? The deceptive ignorance of the media is astounding. First they call these violent Arab revolutions by a quaint name... Arab Spring.Next they say we will see democratic reform and representation. But the reality is the constitutional changes will simply lead to a constitution based on the Quran such as what will soon see in Libya. There's another picture for the one state solution that few understand in the U.S.

It is called Sharia Law. 

It's focus is global domination through the ancient Islamic rules of the Koran and the Hadiths that intertwine government and religion so that government is the sword of the religion.While it might involve elements of a democracy, namely a simplistic electoral procedure, this is simply confusion though word syntax as the media calls Sharia a "democratic" reform. But the facts are, the people will not have a legislature that makes its own laws, but only one that elects its own representative to implement Sharia Law which is not common and certainly not civil in any stretch of the imagination.

What we see today is the Muslim Brotherhood integrating with Al Qaeda and other radical groups within the new governments in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. They are also in Gaza in the form of of a group called Hamas.

Sudan has been engulfed but no one in the U.S. national press seems to deeply care about reporting on the African nations south of Cairo.It appears that the Muslim Brotherhood or like minded aggressive factions will be taking charge of the Arab League nations, replacing those leaders that have been friendly with "the West".

Lebanon has already gone there as Hezbollah, Iran's war focused Shiite Muslim proxy is in control. In Israel, Hamas and its the rocket firing terror groups control Gaza. Make no mistake, Iraq will fall away from the West just as Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will as Iran pushes into the focus of prophecy. 

This will accelerate as the U.S. troops withdraw from the region.What is actually happening is that by the people's election, individual freedoms are not given under Sharia Law.For example, this weekend an Egyptian man was sentenced to three years in prison for offending Islam on Facebook. Please read this important commentary from CNN's Bryony Jones, he writes "The Arab Spring: A Different Picture". 

 PRAYER ALERT October 21, 2011: AEI's Frederick Kagan tells us Obama Abandons Iraq. Not only will this withdrawal have serious repercussion for America, Iraq and its people will suffer greatly as sectarian violence will increase. This website will monitor this terrorism so come back often for future Prayer Alerts. 

"President Obama announced today that he has decided to abandon America’s interest in Iraq and damage our position in the Middle East by withdrawing all U.S. military forces by the end of this year.This retreat will have great costs for the United States. It squanders the gains made by both American and Iraqi military forces over the last four years, but, even more important, it squanders the enormous opportunity to forge an alliance with Iraq at a time when such an alliance would be of tremendous value to the United States. It dramatically increases the likelihood that the new and unstable Iraqi democratic experiment — already under attack from an authoritarian Prime Minister and a hostile Islamic Republic of Iran — will fail.

The withdrawal of American forces now serving as peacekeepers along the Arab-Kurd seam greatly increases the likelihood of ethnic civil war. The withdrawal of American military protection from a state helpless to defend itself on its own effectively throws Iraq into the risk of terror and eventually the arms of Iran..."

Kagan warned in May 2011 of the Iraq Threat Assessment: The Dangers to the United States, Iraq, and Mideast Stability of Abandoning Iraq at the End of 2011. Key issues are: 

• The Iraqi Security Forces will not be able to defend Iraq’s sovereignty, maintain its independence from Iran, or ensure Iraq’s internal stability without American assistance, including some ground forces in Iraq, for a number of years.

• Iran’s use of proxy military groups poses the most immediate and serious threat to Iraqi security. Combined with Iran’s conventional, particularly missile, threat, the current military balance pitting Iraq by itself against Iran gives Tehran military dominance at every level of escalation.

PRAYER ALERT October 17, 2011: In the September 23, 2011  prayer alert noted that Yemen, the poorest of the Arab nation whose leader Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a U.S. ally just like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. 

Yemen's future downfall is key and today Bloomberg reports: Yemen’s Sana’a Rocked by Explosions, Gunfire Amid Fighting

"Yemen’s capital Sana’a was rocked by explosions and gunfire tonight as troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh battled tribal forces after the country’s leader said his opponents are carrying out a coup." 

"Yemen has the eighth-largest crude reserves in the Middle East and relies on oil sales for 90 percent of its hard currency earnings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Oil Administration."

Breaking News: CBS News reports Gilad Shalit is scheduled to be released by Hamas in a 1,027 to 1 prisoner swap that will become a nightmare fr other Israelis one day.


"Iran’s supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a "resolute" response."

"Khamenei's comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Al-Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to further isolate Tehran. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in saying the United States would use the allegations as leverage with other countries that have been reluctant to apply harsh sanctions or penalties against Iran.

Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, said that the U.S. accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. "By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran is a supporter of terrorism... This conspiracy didn't work and won't work," he said. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his part, dismissed the U.S. accusations as a fabricated "scenario.""

PRAYER ALERT October 15, 2011: Genesis 21 tells us Ishmael is of the land of Paran and Genesis 32 tells us Esau is of the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 

Today, these people groups are alive and well in the Shia Muslim lands of Iran-Iraq and Sunni Saudi Arabia. 

Both Seir and Paran were given the Torah directly by Moses and both rejected the word of God which is established on grace and mercy and accepted by faith and reliance on the Word of the God of Israel. 

Today, both nations still reject His teaching and instruction.Consider your own position as you see what is unfolding in the headlines from the "craftsmen" born of Esau and Ishmael: The Washington Post reports that Iran behind alleged terrorist plot, U.S. says 

AP "U.S. officials on Tuesday said that they had foiled an elaborate terrorist plot backed by factions of the Iranian government aimed at assassinating the Saudi ambassador to Washington. At a news conference, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said two Iranians have been charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism, among other charges. One of the suspects, an Iranian with U.S. citizenship, was arrested in New York last month; the other, an Iranian, remains at large. 

“The United States is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions,” Holder said.The suspects were identified as Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old from Texas, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran’s Quds Force, an elite division of that country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for foreign operations."

We are witnessing "Nation against Nation" and the beginning of sorrows will head West. 

We are also witnessing "Kingdom against Kingdom" and the beginning of sorrows confronts us and many do not see it for what it is because we are too busy tossing prayer and the Bible out of our public schools while promoting murder by abortion. Pray that it will end. 

In the Bible Egypt always plays an important role in the events of the people of Israel. 

It's the way it is. 

Persecution and attacks on the Coptic Christians in Egypt has now begun. 

We have seen Christian persecution for over 30 years in Iran following the revolution there led by the Muslim Clerics and it continues today!! We have also seen this in Afghanistan where the last church in that country has just closed its doors.

And WND reports: "The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority is banning the name of "Jesus Christ" from any text message sent in the country. The government's telecommunications agency has given mobile phone companies a list of 1,695 words and informed mobile companies that they have seven days to implement filters in their systems that would block the transmission of the listed words."

Keep your eyes and prayers toward Iraq because once our last military troops exit that nation, I am afraid that the few remaining Christian minorities that have not yet fallen to great persecution there will see the fulfillment of the words of Jesus while the U.S. provides no immigration for them because many in the West sit idly in a pew waiting for the tribulation to start for everyone else since they will take a rapture ride out. 

Scripture is clear but fantasy is fuzzy and from the deceiver. Events in the Mid East are grievous, they should remind us of the latent phase of labor which can come days before labor's painful contractions. Contraction is on the way as persecution intensifies while the world and "The Quartet" work to divide Israel and Jerusalem. Childbirth is an inherently dangerous and risky activity, with much pain and many complications.

Don't turn your attention away from Egypt or it neighbor to the East Iraq as our troops withdraw, Babylon will move back into the same chaos that has moved within Egypt and spreading. Riots over church attack in Egypt kill 24 

"Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.

The rioting lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began. The military clamped a curfew on the area until 7 a.m. The clashes spread to nearby Tahrir Square, drawing thousands of people to the vast plaza that served as the epicenter of the protests that ousted Mubarak. On Sunday night, they battled each other with rocks and firebombs, some tearing up pavement for ammunition and others collecting stones in boxes."

The following video, "Egypt's Coptic Crisis" is very important. It is from Ezra Levant’s program on Canada's SUN TV.

Famine and starvation also face the people of Egypt. According to this commentary from FrontPageMag titled "Egypt's Starvation Time"

"While the recent massacre of Christians by the Egyptian army demonstrates that Egypt is disintegrating, the inability of the country’s rulers to feed their country’s millions of poor would lead to a collapse into chaos of monumental and cataclysmic proportions."

"But the situation Egypt faces now is much bleaker. Soon, it may be a question of simply no food available for Egypt’s poor rather than one of prices or subsidies. One can only then imagine the nightmarish violence that will take place as people fight to feed their children and themselves."

"If a collapse does occur in Egypt, southern Europe can expect a massive flight of refugees to cross the Mediterranean in search of food and safety. Israel and the West must also be prepared in such a case to face in Egypt a failed state along the lines of Somalia and Pakistan, in which terrorists will be welcome. In such an anarchic situation, Egyptian Christians would be facing a Rwanda-style bloodbath, which the West should currently be preparing to prevent. In the end, disruption of the food supply will see Egypt plunge into a murderous chaos and become Africa’s latest, largest human tragedy."

Should Coptic Christians flee Egypt due to persecution and famine, where will they go? 

Certainly not Iran, Syria or Iraq, certainly not Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia or Yemen. 

If it happens many will head to Europe, but where else is the only safe haven in the Mideast, the land whose name means "God Prevails"? It is Israel. 

May they open their doors, after all it was Egypt that saved Jacob's family! 


For more background and understanding on events in Egypt you will need to read Isaiah 19. I have posted it on this website as "The Burden of Egypt" and read this important commentary: "Egypt at the Crossroads of Prophecy." 


"There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime.

In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan's new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country. The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department's latest International Religious Freedom Report. The report, which was released last month and covers the period of July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, also states that “there were no Christian schools in the country.”"

Caroline B. Glick provides critical commentary in The Jerusalem Post today - Our World: The forgotten Christians of the East 

"According to Coptic sources, the protesters Sunday night were beset by Islamic attackers who were rapidly backed up by military forces." 

In a not unrelated event, Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic Patriarch Bechara Rai caused a storm two weeks ago. During an official visit to Paris, Rai warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy that the fall of the Assad regime in Syria could be a disaster for Christians in Syria and throughout the region. 

Today the Western-backed Syrian opposition is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Rai cautioned that the overthrow of President Bashar Assad could lead to civil war and the establishment of an Islamic regime. In Iraq, the Iranian and Syrian-sponsored insurgency that followed the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime in 2003 fomented a bloody jihad against Iraq’s Christian population. 

This month marks the anniversary of last year’s massacre of 58 Christian worshipers in a Catholic church in Baghdad. A decade ago there were 800,000 Christians in Iraq. Today there are 150,000. Under the Shah of Iran, Iran’s Christians were more or less free to practice their religion. Today, they are subject to the terrorist whims of Islamic overlords who know no law other than Islamic supremacism."  

"Palestinian Christians have similarly suffered under their popularly elected governments. When the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, Christians made up 80 percent of Bethlehem’s population. Today they comprise less than 20% of the population.Since Hamas “liberated” Gaza in 2007, the area’s ancient Christian minority has been under constant attack. With only 3,000 members, Gaza’s Christian community has seen its churches, convents, book stores and libraries burned by Hamas members and their allies.Its members have been killed and assaulted. 

While Hamas has pledged to protect the Christians of Gaza, no one has been arrested for anti-Christian violence. Just as the Jews of the Islamic world were forcibly removed from their ancient communities by the Arab rulers with the establishment of Israel in 1948, so too Christians have been persecuted and driven out of their homes. 

Populist Islamic and Arab regimes have used radical Islamic religious supremacism and Arab racial chauvinism against Christians as rallying cries to their subjects. These calls have in turn led to the decimation of the Christian populations of the Arab and Islamic world.For instance, at the time of Lebanese independence from France in 1946 the majority of Lebanese were Christians.Today less than 30% of Lebanese are Christians. 

In Turkey, the Christian population has dwindled from 2 million at the end of World War I to less than 100,000 today. In Syria, at the time of independence Christians made up nearly half of the population. Today 4% of Syrians are Christian. In Jordan half a century ago 18% of the population was Christian. Today 2% of Jordanians are Christian. Christians are prohibited from practicing Christianity in Saudi Arabia. In Pakistan, the Christian population is being systematically destroyed by regime-supported Islamic groups. Church burnings, forced conversions, rape, murder, kidnap and legal persecution of Pakistani Christians has become a daily occurrence."

For those in "The West" looking around for the any moment rapture ride, look again! 

Are you better than the Coptics, better than Christian Arabs?

For many, it is like it was when Americans wondered what Hitler and Japan were doing across the globe until it hit home at Pearl Harbor. 

The false reality was that there was no war; after all it was not at our shores, not in our backyard so there was no evil before us. Why do we think like that? We were simply on the sidelines and not in the game until Pearl Harbor. The same is true today as the words of Jesus, the words of Yeshua come into focus right before our very eyes as people mistakenly look for an EU anti-christ while the Mullahs, the false prophets rise and deceive many:
"Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." Matthew 24:9-11
He also spoke of family members turning against each other in Matthew 10:36. This is a daily event for any Muslim that turns to the God of the Bible. 


Look for yourself and you can be an eyewitness to what Jesus spoke of. Wake up too and you'll see and hear a false prophet deceiving many as Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assures the "Basij" that the western liberal democracies will be annihilated the same as the USSR. The Basij (Persian for mobilization) is a very large, omnipresent paramilitary organization with multifaceted roles, acting as the eyes and ears of Iran's radical Islamic regime. 

It is present in schools, universities, state and private institutions, factories, and even among tribes. The Basij was formed by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 and it is intended to function as the nucleus of what the founder of the Islamic republic called "the army of 20 million" with the aim of defending Iran's radical regime against both domestic and foreign threats.Just ask yourself, does 20 million sound like the deception of many?

PRAYER ALERT October 4, 2011: Another craftsman warning today as we learn, Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike "In meeting with Turkish FM, Syrian president discusses possibility of NATO strike, says 'I won't need more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets to Golan to fire at Tel Aviv'. Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported."

PRAYER ALERT October 2, 2011: Today is the 4th "Day of Awe" of the Fall Feasts and Arutz Sheva, The Israel National News reports that Israel Formally Accepts Quartet Plan to Restart Talks with PA  

"The State of Israel on Sunday officially accepted a plan by the Quartet of peacekeeping nations to restart final status talks with the Palestinian Authority. The Prime Minister's Office said in a statement issued Sunday that Israel “welcomes the Quartet's call for direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions, as called for by both President [Barack] Obama and by Prime Minister Netanyahu" in their respective speeches at the United Nations General Assembly."

"The Quartet, comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, has published a new timetable for direct negotiations between the two parties, urging both Israel and the PA to come to the table within four weeks. During this initial meeting, the two sides are expected to express their commitment to a timetable which will allegedly bring forth a peace agreement by the end of 2012."

To view the full 35 minute video report from the State Department on establishing "Peace and Security" by dividing the land of Israel just click here to watch U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell describe the plan. Whatever you see or hear in today's headlines, remember:
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2Timothy 1:7
PRAYER ALERT September 29, 2011: Clinton calls on world to ‘pressure’ Israelis, Palestinians 

"US secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called on the world to “pressure” both Israel and the Palestinians in order to bring about the resumption of peace negotiations, AFP reported.

Speaking at a joint press conference with her Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Kamel Amr, Clinton said that “Egypt, the United States, the Quartet, everyone must be prepared to put pressure on both parties to try to move towards an agreement on outstanding issues.”

Addressing the contentious issue of settlements and the Palestinians’ insistence that talks cannot begin until Israel agrees to freeze construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Clinton stated, “if there was an agreement on borders, there would be no debate on the settlements, because everyone would know which side of the border was Palestine, and which was Israel.”The US secretary of state urged both parties to “put aside their misgivings and mistrust,” and return to negotiations, saying “there is no alternative.”"

PRAYER ALERT September 27, 2011: Today Politico reports on the "Craftsmen" of Iran... 

Official: Iran to send ships near U.S. coast "Iran plans to send military ships near the Atlantic coast of the United States, but offered no timeline or details on the “powerful presence” its naval head promised would be deployed. Iranian Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari warned that his country plans to station ships near the U.S. sea borders in a move that would dramatically heighten tensions between the two countries, Reuters reported." 

To get a view just who the craftsmen of Zechariah that oppose the four horns are, please read My Scripture Study, Zechariah's Vision and "The Quartet". 

They may now be much more heavily armed as 20,000 Heat-Seeking Missiles Reportedly Feared Missing From Libyan Warehouse "A recent secret White House meeting revealed that an estimated 20,000 portable, heat-seeking missiles appear to have vanished from an Army warehouse in Libya, ABCNews.com reported."

PRAYER ALERT September 26, 2011: Abbas returned to Rahmallah this weekend and now he Calls For A Palestinian Spring

If you have been watching the Arab Spring in which the world has witnessed civil and military uprisings by Muslim and Arab peoples against their government leadership then this declaration would actually mean that he is asking Palestinians to rise up against him and his Fatah party leadership. 

But no that is not the case, he is amending the term that was born out of civil unrest and rioting by declaring a "Palestinian Spring" was born from his speech at the U.N. His goal is to engage people and other nations against Israel. Jerusalem will be the focal point. 

Keep your eyes on Jerusalem and pray earnestly each day as Zechariah 12 unfolds. For more background, again read the full commentary on Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet. As the world works to divide Israel, much like The Quartet we see global forums like the IMF and the G-20 plan and scheme. 

PRAYER ALERT September 23, 2011: THIS IS IMPORTANT... Following the Palestinian delivery of the formal request by Mahmoud Abbas for U.N. membership to be recognized by the U.N. Security Council, clashes begin in the West Bank and the Quartet (US, EU, Russia and the UN), engaged again today on the world stage issuing a call to restart peace talks in a month to end within a year. 

As reported by CBS News "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the statement was a "concrete and detailed proposal to begin negotiations without delay or preconditions.""The Quartet proposal represents the firm conviction of the international community that a just and lasting peace can only come through negotiations between the parties," she said. "Therefore we urge both parties to take advantage of this opportunity to get back to talks.""You can read, watch and hear the statements by Abbas posted on the UN's 66th Session website

His concluding remarks directly engage with Biblical prophecy: 

"Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to inform you that, before delivering this statement, I, in my capacity as President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, submitted to H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, an application for the admission of Palestine on the basis of the 4 June 1967 borders, with AI-Quds AI-Sharif as its capital, as a full member of the United Nations. I call upon Mr. Secretary-General to expedite transmittal of our request to the Security Council, and I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favor of our full membership. I also appeal to the States that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine to do so."

For those of us who do not speak Palestinian, hum... I mean Arabic, you NEED TO KNOW that Al-Quds aš-Šarīf is Jerusalem, the city of Y-H-V-H's name not Allah's. 

It is the the city that will become a very heavy stone that will injure those that try to move it from the capital of Israel to the call it the capital of Palestine. 

Notice what Abbas said: "admission of Palestine on the basis" of the '67 borders AND Jersualem as the Palestinian capital. 

Take note, Abbas did not limit his words to say "east" Al-Quds. This means that we will see Abbas in the headline news over the coming days, weeks, months and years \ saying that he and the Palestinians will seek to reject all Quartet Peace plans and proposals. 

But why? It's all about Israel's destruction.

Today, they do not meet these demands he has clearly set forth before the U.N. By the way, if you are wondering why I am calling him Abbas instead of President Abbas it is simply because there is no nation called Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority is no country. 

It's that simple. To top it off, as debated by Hamas, back in January of 2009, Abbas' term as the Palestinian National Authority president expired following his four year term. Abbas, an Egyptian and Russian educated lawyer extended his own term that began in 2005 stating he had the right to do so. 
There has been no election since. His term has expired.
 

Take notice as well of other news in the Mid East today as Yemen troops kill five protesters bringing the number to 120 killed this week as govenment snipers targeted protestors in Change Square, the focus of conflict in in the Yemen capital of Sanaa. 

There is much more violence to follow around Yemen. 

It is after all a part of the original seven (7) member Arab League that was founded in Cairo in 1945 by Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan (Jordan, as of 1950), and Yemen. Have you noticed the names and the tie to the so-called Arab Spring? Just look at Revelation 17:3-11 (NIV)
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. … I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come. This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
Astonishingly we find in the Greek word “thaumazō” in Revelation 17 means "wonder as with admiration"!! Blasphemous names? 

Let’s see, 5 will fall... Hum, we must know that 3 despotic Arab League leaders (horns) have already fallen right before our eyes as we watch CNN News and the Muslim Brotherhood begins to assume power and influence.The leaders of Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon have already lost their power right before our very eyes… and Yemen and Syria’s are on the brink as protesters plan shadow radical governments in the nations of the Arab League.

The “yet to come” kingdom is part of a re-born Muslim terror beast - and the Arab League that is being changed by The Muslim Brotherhood? 

 It certainly seems so and there is a darker side. 

For example: the radical Islamic Resistance Movement known as Hamas rejects Abbas' Fatah UN bid simply because it falls in the context of the so-called peace process which they deem a Zionist plot.

Hamas hates, pure and simple.

After all, their religion/government (horned beast) follows the false prophet Muhammad from a kingdom that seemingly died with the Ottoman Empire whose fatal wound has now healed as it has been revived in an election in Gaza. 

Revelation 13 says the beast will look like a lamb (a religion of peace), but it tell lies like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.
If you are wondering why the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly is such a big deal... perhaps the session number might grab your attention for a moment, but the U.N. is huge because it seems we are fast approaching the "in that day" period of Zechariah's prophecy of the precious "burdensome stone", the chosen City of Jerusalem (See Zechariah 12:3). 

This day may not come in my lifetime, but something deep inside tells me that I do not want to cast lots and wager against that because Arab Spring conflicts now surround Israel

We are witnessing an Islamic Awakening, the rebirth of a Mullah nightmare, a multi-nation Islamic Caliphate as the political and religious unity of the Muslim world joining Shia with Sunni. 

They are in disunity now, but that is changing. In brief, Sunni Islam believes that the head of state government and religion the "Caliph" should be elected by Muslims. 

Shia Islam believes Islam's Caliph should be an Imam chosen by Allah from Muhammad's descendants. 

We are seeing them come together, but we in "The West" mistakenly think events are moving forward, after all, we are calling it democracy in the Mideast. 

But the media is wrong, the fact is: "The Arab Spring" is accelerating these nations in reverse, not forward. 

There is no modern political reformation.

We have to go back to 1981 to understand what we are seeing today. This is what everyone in the Mideast is talking about... the thing we call the Muslim Spring, is the Islamic Awakening, but it is not just about the Arab peoples. 

Getting rid of the old rulers is a part of the plan and the only unity in the awakening in the end is that it opposes Israel and the Jewish people. 

Things heated up in Iran in 1979, the Persian nation.

For more insight, just read the Iman's message documented at Iran's IRIB world news radio. This announcement of Al Quds day was given just three months before the Iran hostage crisis when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981: 

"For many years, I have been notifying the Muslims of the danger posed by the usurper Israel which today has intensified its savage attacks against the Palestinian brothers and sisters, and which, in the south of Lebanon in particular, is continually bombing Palestinian homes in the hope of crushing the Palestinian struggle. I ask all the Muslims of the world and the Muslim governments to join together to sever the hand of this usurper and its supporters.

I call on all the Muslims of the world to select as Quds Day the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan - which is itself a determining period and can also be the determiner of the Palestinian people’s fate - and through a ceremony demonstrating the solidarity of Muslims world-wide, announce their support for the legitimate rights of the Muslim people. 

I ask God Almighty for the victory of the Muslims over the infidels. Imam’s message announcing Quds Day, dated 7 August 1979 (16 Murdad 1358 AHS). Sahifa-yi Nur, Vol. 8, p. 229.

Syed Ahmed Khomeini's message two years later: 

"It is hoped that all symptoms of indifference and neglect will end by keeping alive the memory of this day. It is hoped that by the noble nations’ uprisings, certain treacherous leaders who rule over Muslims and Islam and who are hand-in-hand with Israel and act upon the orders of the US in opposition to the interests of Muslims will be cast from the scene and buried in the grave of history.

The usurper rulers who are siding with the unbelievers in the war of unbelievers and apostates such as Israel and Saddam against the Muslims and are raining blows on Muslims and Islam, should be pushed from the scene of Islam. They should be deposed from their rule over Muslims. The noble people of Egypt and Iraq and other countries who are under the domination of hypocrites should rise up and not listen to the corrupt loudspeakers of the criminal pseudo-Muslims, and fear not the fragile power of these treacherous people.

The Iranian nation, the sisters and brothers know fully well that the great Revolution of Iran has few or perhaps no precedents and boats of lofty values. Among its great values are its religious and Islamic content: the same values our exalted Prophets rose up for. It is hoped that this revolution will serve as a divine spark for creating a great explosion among the oppressed masses and that it will lead to the sawn of the Revolution of the Imam of the Time, may all souls be sacrificed before him. The noble nation which brought about such a great Revolution should srive ever more to perpetuate it and in order to prove its presence most conspicuously in the arena for enacting Divine Justice."

To understand this and the news today regarding Iran you need to read more from Iran's IRIB world news radio

The Nations’ duty on Quds Day: "It is the duty of the nations, with the arrival of Quds Day and the anniversary of the martyrdom of that great man in the history of mankind (Imam `Ali [pbuh]), in their gatherings and marches to earnestly demand that their governments rise up against America and Israel using their military might and their oil weapon. 

And if they (the governments) pay no heed to this demand and instead support the criminal Israel which threatens the whole region, even the noble cities, and the depth of whose aspirations are now apparent, they must force them into action through pressure, strikes and threats. In a situation when Islam and its holy sites are under threat of aggression, no Muslim can remain indifferent. What the governments of the region are doing at this time, when Israel is encroaching extensively on Muslim lands and is killing innocent, defenceless Muslims, is nothing other than uttering empty, conciliatory words. And more disastrous than this is that they turn to America, the criminal kingpin, for protection against Israel, in effect like turning to a dragon out of fear of a snake, and even though they have the means with which to fight them, they are not prepared even to utter a hostile word against them or threaten them. 

In such a situation, everyone should prepare himself for obliteration and throughout his life consent to any form of humiliation." Imam’s message dated 16 July 1982 (25 Tir 1361 AHS). Sahifa-yi Nur, Vol. 16, pp. 226-227.

Daniel 7 tells us the visionary Jewish prophet saw four great, powerful beasts come out of the sea, yet each was different from the other. In Scripture, the sea equals people, beasts equal governments, horns equal rulers. Serving much like a logo, these simple graphic images help us understand the prophetic messages. Another thing to help clear our understanding is that prophecy, like our world is at a minimum three dimensional.

For example, in addition to the four empires that opposed ancient Israel: Babylon, Assyria, Greece and Rome, we should also know that the Muslim world has had three great Empires. 

Their lives were prolonged for a season and time to come.

The Safavid Empire, the Mughal Empire and finally the Ottoman Empire of the Turks which seemed to fall into oblivion at the conclusion of World War I. But now these appear to be arising from the ashes as a fourth beast. 

Daniel tells us the 4th beast will be different. He also tells us ten kings will exist. Interestingly, there have been nine (9) Islamic Dynasties. They are the Ummayad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Bahri, Burji, Salavids Mughal and the Ottoman Empire. It seems too that a tenth is in uprising in the Islamic Awakening.

You may want to take a graphic view of see this 90 second overview of all other world empires that have opposed Israel. It's created by MAPS of WAR

In Daniel 2, the one whose name means "God is my judge" tells king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. 

He tells the king that five parts of the man in his dream: 1) the iron, 2) the clay, 3) the brass, 4) the silver and 5) the gold are to be broken to pieces by The Rock. 

He also tells us God is in control, He "changes the times and the seasons: He removes kings, and sets up kings."

Almighty God does this for His ultimate purpose, His gospel of God redemption plan. Daniel also tells us in the (latter) days of these kings - The God of heaven will set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. God's kingdom "shall stand for ever" ruled by Messiah.

PRAYER ALERT September 22, 2011: Walkout at the U.N. today. CNN reports from the United Nations.

"Delegations from the United States and several European nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement, in which he repeatedly condemned the United States and said some countries use the Holocaust as an 'excuse to pay ransom... to Zionists.'"


You can read Ahmadinejad's speech at the official UN 66th Session website. You should read it all for yourself, he closes his statement with these apocalyptic words:
"During last year's session, I emphasized the importance of this issue and called for the designation of the current decade as the decade of shared and collective Global Management. I would like to reiterate again my proposal. 
I am sure that through international cooperation, diligence and efforts by committed world leaders and governments and through insisting on the realization of justice and the support of all other nations, we can expedite the building of a common bright future. This movement is certainly on its rightful path of creation, ensuring a promising future for humanity. 
A future that will be built when humanity initiates to trend the path of the divine prophets and the righteous under the leadership of Imam al-Mahdi, the Ultimate Savior of mankind and the inheritor to all divine messengers and leaders and to the pure generation of our great Prophet."
DID YOU SEE THAT?? 

It is the anti-christ message you may have worried about ever since you read Revelation or listened to sermon about it. 

It is time to forget about the deception of an evil EU leader that takes over the planet. 

Let's also turn and look at the financial news today as $244 trillion in bank held U.S. derivatives became exposed as the U.S. market loses over $1 trillion in value this week as it has done multiple times over the past year. 

It is interesting to see that while The Quartet continues to work hard to divide Israel, at the same time the debt crisis is spinning out of control as Eurozone nations and the U.S. try to keep their economies from dividing into chaos. If you think these are not connected, well perhaps. But I do pray you will reconsider what God has to say: "I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse... Genesis 12:3
* Fear gauge enters the red zone * European banks head towards another meltdown * World Bank's Zoellick: "The world is in a danger zone" * Global Meltdown: Investors Are Dumping Nearly Everything * US banks hit by Fed and funding fears * BRIC nations helping eurozone overcome debt crisis is impossible, says Russian deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak 
All is NOT doom and gloom! 

The good news is that at the end of the story, the conclusion given Abraham in the beginning as recorded in Genesis 12:3 will assuredly come about and "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

PRAYER ALERT September 21, 2011: Look at the map, on the Palestinian letter delivered to the UN. Something is missing there. 

It is Israel. Learn more for yourself on the official website of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations.

Divide and conquer is not God's Peace Plan!!

PRAYER ALERT September 19, 2011: In case you did not know it Saudi Arabia has led in the funding of the Palestinian Government. Reuters reports: "Last week, both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank identified the authority's financial crisis as a danger to the state-building program which Fayyad's administration has led over the last two years."Meanwhile, in London today "The Independent" reports: Lloyd's insurer sues Saudi Arabia for 'funding 9/11 attacks'. "

A Lloyd's insurance syndicate has begun a landmark legal case against Saudi Arabia, accusing the kingdom of indirectly funding al-Qa'ida and demanding the repayment of £136m it paid out to victims of the 9/11 attacks.The Brighton-based Lloyd's 3500 syndicate, which paid $215m compensation to companies and individuals involved, alleges that the oil-rich Middle Eastern superpower bears primary responsibility for the atrocity because al-Qa'ida was supported by banks and charities acting as "agents and alter egos" for the Saudi state."

Mind blowing... Mother of Terrorists to Launch UN Campaign "The Palestinian Authority, pledged to halt terror, chooses the mother of terrorist murderers to hand over to the United Nations a letter asking for unilateral recognition by the international community. In a widely publicized event in the Palestinian Authority, Latifa Abu Hmeid, mother of seven terrorists, including four who are serving 18 life sentences for murdering Israelis, led a ceremonial procession to Ramallah to hand over the letter. The revelation was reported and translated by Palestinian Media Watch.

Hmeid's sons were convicted of killing seven Israeli civilians and attempting to murder 12 others. One of her sons, Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Hmeid, was termed by the Palestinian Authority a "martyr."Palestinian Media Watch reported last year that PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake, had awarded her "the Plaque of Resoluteness and Giving," inscribed with the names of her four sons who are imprisoned.Karake explained she was honored because "it is she who gave birth to the fighters, and she deserves that we bow to her in salute and in honor.""

PRAYER ALERT September 18, 2011: Emergency Quartet Meeting in NY Called - "Envoys from the Middle East East Quartet will meet Sunday in a last minute bid to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and stave off a statehood bid at the United Nations this week, according to Reuters news."

"The meeting in New York will come two days after President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated that he would demand full membership of the United Nations for a Palestinian state when he goes to the UN General Assembly next week, setting up a diplomatic clash with Israel and the United States." 

  Shaath: US proposal convinced Abbas to pursue UN bid "Fatah official Nabil Shaath says Obama's proposal, which had no mention of settlement construction moratorium or other Palestinian demands, was 'last straw' that convinced Palestinian president to pursue Security Council vote; claims 'nothing was said or done to make us reconsider our appeal to the international community'"

Abbas defiant as 'all hell' breaks out over UN plan "Abbas said Sunday that he had not scheduled to meet with US President Barack Obama during the 66th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, but is open to the possibility.“Neither I, nor Obama asked for a meeting, so I don’t believe we will meet. However, if we meet, I will remind him that he promised last year that the state of Palestine would be a full member of the UN this year, and I came here on the grounds of the promise I heard,” Abbas told Ma'an's reporter."

This is an earlier July report from Virtual Jerusalem: "Palestinian Authority envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour told the Security Council on Tuesday the PA is ready for statehood with Jerusalem as its capital".I recently read a commentary that Mahmoud Abbas recently claimed that the Palestinians' land has been occupied for 63 years. Does that tell you the mindset? The "occupation" referred to is not the result of the Six Day War of 1967 like most people might assume. He is referencing Israel’s creation in 1948. Think about that.

If the U.N. votes to recognize Palestinian statehood in light of this mindset, will the years of hatred of Israel come to an end in the Arab world? 

What does tomorrow bring? Israeli-Greek-Turkish air sea forces on guard for first Cypriot gas drilling." Military tension is building up among Greece, Turkey and Israel as Cyprus prepares to start exploratory drilling for gas offshore Monday, Sept. 19 in the face of threats from Ankara. All three have placed their air and sea forces in a state of preparedness along with the Cypriot army."

PRAYER ALERT September 16, 2011: Seven days remain before the UN Vote on the establishment of a Palestinian State. Is this a threat from Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services and a former Saudi ambassador to the United States who is now the chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies???

"The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world. If it does not, American influence will decline further, Israeli security will be undermined and Iran will be empowered, increasing the chances of another war in the region." 

Abbas claims 1947 borders for Palestinian state, affirms bid to UN Security Council "Abbas stressed that Israel's "occupation" will not will not end the next day and much more remains to be done because the 1967 lines do not define the true borders - any more than the roadblocks and the settlements. The real Palestinian borders were laid down in 1947 down by the UN. All other areas [meaning large parts of the state of Israel] are "occupied territory" which the Palestinians intend to claim."

Saudis 'eye Pakistani nukes' to face Iran "Saudi Arabia has been beefing up its military links with Pakistan to counter Iran's expansionist plans and this reportedly includes acquiring atomic arms from the only Muslim nuclear power or its pledge of nuclear cover.

Pakistan has become a front-line state for Sunni Islam and is being positioned by its leaders, particularly in the powerful military and intelligence establishments, as a bulwark against Shiite Iran and its proxies.Increasingly, Pakistan is rushing to the defense of Saudi Arabia, with whom it has a long had discreet security links. 

It is reported to have put two army divisions on standby for deployment to Saudi Arabia if the kingdom is threatened by Iran or the pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Arab world.It is even reported to be prepared to provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons if threatened by Iran. In return, it has been promised Saudi Arabian oil and treasure.The Saudis have portrayed the roiling rivalry with the Iranians as a new, menacing chapter of the 1,300-year-old struggle between Sunni and Shiite Islam." 

Erdogan: No Free Movement for Israel in E. Mediterranean Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells Tunisians "Israel will not be able to move in the eastern Mediterranean as it wishes."

"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Tunisians on Thursday his country could have frigates and assault vessels in the eastern Mediterranean “at any time” to ensure freedom of movement.Israel's security cabinet has made a firm decision, however, not to respond to Erdogan's verbal attacks, in an attempt to avoid further inflaming the delicate diplomatic situation with Turkey.  
The Turkish leader is on the second stop of a three-nation tour of the “Arab Spring” countries where long-time governments were toppled by grassroots uprisings this year. Until Wednesday evening, he was in Egypt, where he addressed the country's transitional government, and spoke with interviewers on the Egyptian Dream private satellite television station. He also met with the leadership from the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, which is now fielding a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. The next and final stop on his tour is expected to be Libya."


 "PM calls on Abbas to return to talks; Palestinians send mixed messages as to whether they will petition Security Council or General Assembly. After weeks of deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that he would go to a United Nations General Assembly meeting next week to discuss the Palestinian statehood bid. Speaking at a press conference with visiting Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas, Netanyahu said he will "speak the truth to those who want to hear it" at the UN General Assembly." But remember, Psalm 33:10-12 says...
"The LORD foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He chose for His inheritance."
PRAYER ALERT September 14, 2011: He's Baaaack... Former President Jimmy Carter the man that led the opening to this study on the Zechariah's Vision and The Quartet is quoted in the Washington Post:
"Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he supports the Palestinians’ effort to secure statehood recognition at the United Nations this month, despite White House concerns for the region. The Georgia Democrat said he wouldn't be in favor of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ bid to win U.N. recognition if President Barack Obama’s administration had “put forward any sort of comprehensive peace proposal.” But he told Palestinians have few other options but to seek statehood since no deal is in the works."
Saudi Arabia warns off US on Palestinian veto The Sydney Helad reports"A FORMER head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and ex-ambassador to Washington, Turki al-Faisal, has warned that an American veto of Palestinian membership of the United Nations would end the "special relationship" between the two countries, and make the US ''toxic'' in the Arab world."

USA Today reports: PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews - "WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews."

After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters, in response to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future."

This a horror headline for the future: Hamas weighing a resumption of suicide bombings

"Counter-terrorism expert: Group not deterred by IDF as government and public grow accustomed to cities falling under barrage of rockets. Hamas is considering a resumption of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians, a senior counter-terrorism expert warned in Herzliya on Tuesday."


"Turkish PM Erdogan speaks before Arab League meeting in Cairo, says Israel's own aggressive politics, policies delegitimize its standing in the region." 

 Israel Today reports: Palestinians: Obama promised us a state 



"Ankara's Star Gazette says country's new F-16 radar system modified to recategorize Israeli targets as hostile. Order said to come directly from PM Erdogan's office; naval, submarine radar systems to be changed next.Turkey has developed a new radar system for its US-made F-16 fighter jets that will allow them to fire at Israeli targets, Ankara's Star Gazzete reported on Tuesday. The orders to modify the system reportedly came directly from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office."

PRAYER ALERT September 10, 2011: If you have been following Zechariah’s Vision and the Quartet there is no real surprise that today's headlines in the Middle East tell us that Egyptian protests turned violent and the Israeli embassy was attacked. 


 It is critical to understand why this has happened. It is no new event, but to do that we need to go back in time nearly 40 years to 1973 to the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack Israel on October 6th, the Biblical Holy Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. At the Golan Heights, some 180 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syrian tanks and at the Suez Canal, 436 Israeli soldiers were attacked by 80,000 Egyptians.The purpose of the attack led by Egypt's Anwar Sadat was to force Israel to divide the land and move back to the U.N. mandated 1967 borders.

Sound familiar? Well that was the same idea behind the Egyptian protester's attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo yesterday. 

Don't believe me, listen to this protester for yourself about the horrors that will reach global headlines one day: 


DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 10, 2011, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00) "In first new disclosures on the storming of Israel's Cairo embassy which started Friday night, Sept. 9, debkafile's counter-terror sources reveal that the mob was led by the terrorist Jama'a al-Islamiya, the Egyptian founding branch of Al Qaeda, and two other radical Egyptian Islamist groups.

The February 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center of New York, which was the forerunner of the Sept. 11, 2001 atrocities, was an early Jama'a operation under the al Qaeda label. Closely linked to Osama bin Laden's successor, Ayman al Zawahri, Jama'a al-Islamiya is now running for election in post-Mubarak Egypt. Its mentor is the "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for masterminding the first World Trade Center bombing."

The New York Times reports: BEYOND CAIRO, ISRAEL SENSING A WIDER SIEGE By Ethan Bronner Published: September 10, 2011

"Initial Israeli fears about the Arab Spring uprisings have begun to materialize in concrete ways. When the uprisings began in Tunisia and Egypt at the start of the year, little attention was directed toward Israel because so much focus was on throwing off dictatorial rule and creating a new political order."

"Traditionally, many Arab leaders have used Israel as a convenient scapegoat, turning public wrath against it and blaming it for their problems. The faint hope here was that a freer Middle East might move away from such anti-Israel hostility because the overthrow of dictators would open up debate.But as the months of Arab Spring have turned autumnal, Israel has increasingly become a target of public outrage." 

Some here say Israel is again being made a scapegoat, this time for unfulfilled revolutionary promises."But there IS MUCH MORE BENEATH the surface ESPECIALLY in Turkey... 

Turkey’s Threat to Israel’s New Gas Riches "Ankara warns that Turkey will stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean—and directly challenges U.S. policy." 


DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 9, 2011, 12:04 AM (GMT+02:00) "Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel's shores.Thursday night, Sept. 8, he announced that Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks to Al Jazeera television, the Turkish prime minister also said he had taken steps "to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean."

PRAYER ALERT September 8, 2011: Voice of America reports: 


The United States on Thursday confirmed it will veto any bid by the Palestinians to seek statehood recognition in the U.N. Security Council. Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats continue an effort to reconvene direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and avert a political showdown at the United Nations later this month.

The veto threat comes as no surprise because the Obama Administration has long said that a Palestinian statehood bid - without Israeli concurrence - would set back hopes for real peace. 

Despite the U.S. stance, the Palestinian Authority says it is determined to win an upgrade of international recognition when the new U.N. General Assembly convenes in New York in less than two weeks.In the absence of action in the Security Council due to a U.S. veto, Palestinians can ask the General Assembly to elevate their U.N. status from an observer to a “non-state member.” The United States has no veto in the General Assembly and analysts say a Palestinian measure there would likely be approved by a wide majority."


"A military and economic alliance with Egypt is set to be signed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The deal should be clinched when Erdogan visits Cairo next Monday - the first such visit paid by a Turkish prime minister in 15 years."


"Maj.-Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, chief of the Israeli army's Home Front Command, warned on Monday that thanks to the recent revolutions in surrounding Arab states, Israel could face a multi-front war in the very near future. While Western leaders, and especially Western media, have portrayed the presumedly pro-democracy revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria as a positive development, Israeli officials have been warning that they are quickly being hijacked by radical Islamists. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood looks poised to win the country's first truly democratic election in decades. Reports in recent days are that other Islamist groups are making their moves in post-revolution Tunisia and Libya."

The Huffington Post gives us this story from AP: Turkey: Israel Possibly Target Of More Sanctions "ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday his nation's navy will step up its surveillance of the eastern Mediterranean Sea – a move that could potentially lead to confrontation with Israel – and warned of more sanctions against Israel as relations between the former allies deteriorated further. Turkey has already suspended its vast military ties with Israel, said it is expelling top Israeli diplomats and pledged to lobby other nations in support of the Palestinians' statehood bid after Israel refused to apologize for last year's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists."

PRAYER ALERT September 3, 2011: WE HAVE NOW WITNESSED THE TRUTH OF THE 'SO-CALLED' ARAB SPRING. First in Tunisia then Egypt followed by civil uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen. Protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco and Oman, and now we are the witnesses to civil war in Libya as well as murder and mayhem in Syria while the future forebodes horrific disaster from a nuclear Iran as America could wind up in a global war that starts in Israel.

As the old maxim says; "the truth hurts."

This, of course, is why so many turn their ears away from the truth. Many would rather believe a comfortable lie than the painful truth. The flip-side of that coin is that Yeshua (Jesus) says in John 8:32: "the truth can set you free."

Indeed, lies are designed to enslave, and believing them, though more comfortable than the painful truth, constrains all, including all Arabs from living in the light of real freedom found in Messiah Yeshua. The truth, on the other hand saves people from false hopes and delusion such as Mid-East peace. 

That is why I am dedicated to telling you the truth. For that reason, I want to share some IMPORTANT words from Mike Evans in this alert (links are mine):
"America is on a prophetic countdown to the gravest days in our history. In a few weeks, a vote will be taken at the United Nations that will force America to choose between standing with Israel and standing with her enemies. 
The Bible says we do NOT wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. This is a spiritual battle, and it must be fought with spiritual weapons. 
Israel has asked the Jerusalem Prayer Team for its support at the United Nations and a week later as the nations of the world gather for the demonic Durban III conference to continue accusing Zionists of being racists. The first Durban Conference happened in 2001. 
At that conference, the Palestinians distributed copies of the anti-Semitic The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to all delegates. It was the most evil, anti-Semitic UN assembly ever against Israel. 
The conference ended on September 8, 2001… and 72 hours later, the US was attacked by Radical Islam. I can assure you that in the spirit realm, this was no coincidence. God's Word promises a curse on any nation that touches Jerusalem. 
Once before, an American President attempted to divide Jerusalem and surrender the Temple Mount to radical Islam. That president was Bill Clinton. Now President Obama plans to do the same—this time by formally recognizing a Palestine State at the UN in September within days of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks."
MORE NEWS ON IRAN, ONE OF THE FOUR CRAFTSMEN: Uranium enrichment program will not stop. Iran deploys submarine, warship to the Red Sea. Iran, North Korea to discuss ‘expansion of cooperation’ in talks.

REPORTS: IRAN SEIZES THOUSANDS OF BIBLES; DESTROYS CHURCH Tuesday, August 16, 2011 (8:48 pm) By BosNewsLife Middle East Service 

"TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iranian authorities seized thousands of Bibles in north-west Iran and destroyed a church in the Islamic country's south-east as part of a wider crackdown on Christianity, Iranian Christians said in messages monitored by BosNewsLife Tuesday, August 16. Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News quoted Majid Abhari, an advisor to the social issues committee of Iran's parliament, as saying 6,500 Bibles were seized in recent days between the cities of Zanjan and Abhar in Zanjan Province. He reportedly told government news agency Mehr that the action was necessary as "missionaries with reliance on huge money and propaganda are trying to deviate [Iran's] youth.""

PRAYER ALERT May 24, 2011: VIDEO: ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU'S SPEECH AT CONGRESS presented from PBS NewsHour. My favorite quote: "...in Judea and Samaria the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers." It was followed by a standing Congressional ovation. 

 

PRAYER ALERT May 19, 2011: Jay Sekulow of the American Center For Law & Justice  writes: 

"President Barack Obama, in his speech today, went where no president has gone before – explicitly and publicly calling on Israel to retreat back to its barely-defensible 1967 borders and end the so-called “occupation” of Palestinian lands.

The timing of this declaration is, of course, stunning. Coming just weeks after an announced Hamas-Fatah unity government, the President’s words essentially reward the Palestinian Authority for joining hands with a declared terrorist organization. Keep in mind that this is the same union that the President of Iran hopes will result in the eradication of Israel

The President’s announcement rests on fundamental fallacies: First, that the Israelis are currently “occupying” Palestinian land. Gaza is a terrorist-ruled enclave that Israel withdrew from years ago. 

No occupation there. The Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank has enjoyed ever-increasing autonomy as it rejects terror -- the less terror, the less the Israeli military footprint. Today, the West Bank is fundamentally self-ruled.

The real “occupation” of Palestinian territories occurred in 1948, when the Arab states rejected the United Nations two-state solution, occupied Palestinian land (Egypt took Gaza and Jordan took the West Bank), and launched a war of extermination against Israel. 

So long as Egypt ruled Gaza and Jordan ruled the West Bank (and threatened Israel with a vast array of conventional military forces), there was no international outcry for the Palestinians.

It was only when the Israelis expelled Egyptian and Jordanian military forces that the international community suddenly “discovered” the plight of the Palestinians that was created by their Arab rejection.  

President Obama’s second fallacy rests on his strange assumption that the 1967 boundaries are appropriate and defensible. Take a look at this map, which starkly demonstrates Israel’s security problem. At its most narrow point, pre-1967 Israel faced a nine-mile gap between Jordanian armies and the ocean.

In 1973, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel, Egyptian forces pushed up to 10 miles into the Sinai.“Land for peace” is a cute phrase, but for military planners facing hostile enemies, land means security. Land means a defense in depth. And “peace”? How is that possible when Hamas rules the Palestinians? Simply put, President Obama announced as his starting point what is essentially a worst-case deal for Israel. This is unprecedented, shocking, and – worst of all – fundamentally irresponsible." 

  PRAYER ALERT May 4, 2011: PM Netanyahu's reaction to the PA-Hamas agreement signed today.

 

PRAYER ALERT May 2, 2011: President Obama: Al-Qaida leader, 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden dead
"Justice has been done," President Barack Obama said in a dramatic announcement at the White House.A jubilant crowd of thousands gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden's death. Hundreds more sang and waved American flags at Ground Zero in New York — where the twin towers that once stood as symbols of American economic power were brought down by bin Laden's hijackers 10 years ago." 
"U.S. officials said the CIA tracked bin Laden to his location, then elite troops from Navy SEAL Team Six, a top military counter-terrorism unit, flew to the hideout in four helicopters. Bin Laden was shot in the head in an ensuing firefight, these officials said, adding that he and his guards had resisted his attackers. U.S. personnel identified him by facial recognition, the official said, declining to say whether DNA analysis had also been used. The U.S. team took custody of bin Laden's remains. A U.S. official later said bin Laden had been buried at sea and the remains were handled in accordance with Islamic practice, which calls for speedy burial. 
The official, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters, said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. The official did not say where the body was buried.
For the past 10 years many people have thrown out the thought that they believe that the evil craftsman Osama bin Laden to be an antichrist figure much like Hitler. 

Many don't know it but he had 24 children and was one of 54 siblings... all the children of Saudi construction mogul Mohammed bin Awdah bin Laden by some 22 wives. Mohammed bin Awdah bin Laden was the man that was chosen to rebuild the Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina in the 1960's. 
His story gets even creepier when you consider the Biblical text because Osama's mother was Syrian, and the elder bin Laden married her in none other than Jerusalem. 

So why was he in Jerusalem? 

Until the six day war in 1967, Mohammed bin Laden was the sole contractor responsible for restoration work at the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount! 

Today, the Saudi Binladin Group is the largest construction company in the world and employs 40,000.

And here we are. Today is Holocaust Day and if you read Revelation 13:1-4 the announcement of his death seems pretty eerie if you ask me especially after you consider his heritage. But, if you have read this blog before, you know I believe that the beast is Satan's religious-political kingdom on earth. Bin Laden the antichrist? No, but his radical evil was so great that it is stunning and amazing to now know he was just shot in the head and thrown into the sea. 

Why on earth would we bury him at sea? That decision had to be made at the highest level, after all, two days after 9/11 the Presidential directive was given to find him.

PRAYER ALERT April 21, 2011: This is not diplomacy, it is insanity. As 90 people were gunned down today in Syria, a report today arises from Israel News AFP reports Europe considering recognition of Palestine

"France says European states considering recognizing Palestine; Britain echoes sentiment, says 'nothing is off table with regard to recognition in September.' Israel's UN envoy: Peace cannot be imposed from outside. France said Thursday that European nations are considering recognizing a Palestinian state, heightening pressure on the United States and Israel to re-launch the Middle East peace process. 

"Recognition of the state of Palestine is one of the options which France is considering, with its European partners, in a bid to re-launch the peace process," French ambassador Gerard Araud told a Security Council debate on the Middle East."" 

 PRAYER ALERT April 20, 2011: Excerpts of The Los Angeles Times report by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times April 19, 2011 - Israel under pressure to offer peace plan

If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't act soon, the Mideast 'quartet' may try to jump-start the process by endorsing a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem its capital.  
"Reporting from Jerusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure to unveil a new plan for solving the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict or risk having the U.S. and international community move ahead with a strategy of their own. Israel won some breathing space with the postponement last week of a meeting of international powers in Berlin, but American and European diplomats are continuing to prod Netanyahu to lay out his vision for restarting peace talks and ending the occupation of the West Bank. 

If he does not, diplomats warned, the so-called Mideast quartet — the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — may attempt to jump-start the process by formally endorsing, for the first time, the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital."

"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled last week that international patience over the stalled peace process was growing thin and that the recent Arab world unrest made a resolution of the conflict more pressing. She promised "active American leadership" and a reinvigorated U.S. approach that would be announced in coming weeks."

"President Obama has said he wants to welcome a Palestinian state into the U.N. in September. Not coincidentally, that's also when the Palestinians are promising to take their statehood bid to the U.N. General Assembly, which most predict will approve it."

PRAYER ALERT April 12, 2011: The planned Quartet meeting announced by Mahmoud Abbas that was scheduled on April 15 as noted in the PRAYER ALERT as the March 27th meeting has been reported as "delayed" according to unnamed officials representing the Quartet. 


PRAYER ALERT April 3, 2011: New York Times columnist Ethan Bronner provided this comment yesterday... 

"JERUSALEM — With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.  

The Palestinian Authority has been steadily building support for such a resolution in September, a move that could place Israel into a diplomatic vise. 

Israel would be occupying land belonging to a fellow United Nations member, land it has controlled and settled for more than four decades and some of which it expects to keep in any two-state solution.

"He further states: "The Palestinian focus on September stems not only from the fact that the General Assembly holds its annual meeting then. It is also because Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced in September 2009 that his government would be ready for independent statehood in two years and that Mr. Obama said last September that he expected the framework for an independent Palestinian state to be declared in a year."  

Meanwhile, Fares Akram and Isabel Kershner write about a plot of terrorism birthed at Passover that will come true some day... 

"GAZA — Thousands of Palestinians attended the funerals on Saturday of three senior Hamas militants killed by Israel in an overnight airstrike in southern Gaza, and Hamas leaders warned that Israel would bear the consequences."

"The Israeli military said that the three militants were members of a Hamas terrorist squad planning to kidnap Israelis over the Passover holiday in Israel and in the resorts of the Egyptian Sinai."

PRAYER ALERT March 27, 2011: Four days before Passover, the same day Messiah Yeshua entered Jerusalem... Next Middle East Quartet Meeting on April 15.

Watch this pattern repeat in future prayer alerts as those that seek to divide Jerusalem and Israel will come on Biblically appointed days mocking the God of Israel. "MOSCOW, (Xinhua) -- Visiting leader of Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said next Middle East Quartet Meeting was scheduled on April 15, according to local reports." 


"Britain, France and Germany want the United Nations and the European Union to propose the outlines of a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state, UN diplomats said.

The three European countries, all members of the UN Security Council, are pressing for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union to propose a settlement text at a meeting in mid-April of the Quartet of Mideast mediators, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks are taking place in private."

Well there you have it, Zechariah's prophecy staring you back right in the face as nations are uniting against Israel. 

According to statements made by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN... "target date fast approaching" as Britain, France and Germany officially ask the UN and the EU to lead and draft a new peace agreement to establish a Palestinian state and divide Jerusalem as the capital of both states. 

YNet News reports further that: 

 "The Palestinians insist they will not resume peace talks until Israel halts settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands captured in the Six Day War which the Palestinians want for their future state. The US veto on Feb. 18 of a Security Council resolution that would have condemned "illegal" Israeli settlements and demanded an immediate halt to all settlement building spurred Britain, France and Germany, who supported the measure, to issue a joint statement expressing serious concern about the stalemate in the Middle East peace process. Since the US efforts have been unsuccessful, diplomats said the three European powers decided to try a new approach in hopes of breaking the deadlock.

The diplomats said the three European countries have delivered the message in key capitals –including Washington and Jerusalem – that if the parameters of a final settlement are endorsed, the Palestinians will return to the negotiating table.

In their joint statement of Feb. 18, Britain, France and Germany said their goal "remains an agreement on final status issues and the welcoming of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations by September 2011."In message delivered by his assistant at Uruguay conference Ban Ki-moon says occupation is morally and politically unsustainable and must therefore end. 

'A way must be found for Jerusalem to emerge as a capital of two States'.

I find this utterly amazing and beyond comprehension... Ban Ki-moon is in Uruguay while plutonium is leaking into the soil and Iodine-131 is pouring into the sea as Japan is desperately fighting a nuclear meltdown, yet he is at a security council meeting on the civil war in Libya telling the world that Israel's capital is to be divided with the Palestinians and that "arrangements for holy sites acceptable for all" will be established.

The Jerusalem Post goes on to report more on The Quartet's actions: "If the Quartet feels obligated to propose outlines of a final Israeli-Palestinian settlement at the end of its upcoming meeting, it needs to take into account Israeli demands, not only Palestinian ones, government sources said this week amid speculation the Quartet may delineate how it sees a final settlement.

Britain, France and Germany have reportedly been urging the EU and the UN to propose a statement that would say that a future agreement would be based upon the 1967 lines “with agreed upon land swaps,” and reach a “just fair and agreed solution to the refugee question.”

One of the key sticking points in relaunching Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has been the Palestinian insistence that the baseline for talks be a return to the 1967 lines, and Israel’s position that those lines are not sacrosanct, and that what needed to be discussed were secure and defensible borders – something Israel says is not provided by the 1967 lines."


"The time has come for Palestine to become a permanent member of the United Nations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday, reiterating his opposition to the idea of a state with temporary borders. He expressed hope that a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines would be declared by September and blamed Israel for the current stalemate in the peace process." 

 Many believe that Israel's response will be to Israel react against this Quartet declaration and begin annexing portions of the West Bank settlements in opposition to the nations against her.

So what's up with September? It is a very important time, just read you Bible... open God's word to study the teaching and instruction of the Day of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:23-25; Numbers 29:1-6). 

Rosh Hashana is observed on the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. It is to be a day of "remembrance of the blowing of the shofar", a Sabbath day of rest. This year it begins September 28th at sunset and lasts until sunset September 29, 2011. 

The following ten days are known as the "10 days of awe" before Judgment Day -- Yom Kippur, the day of remembrance, a set apart day of fasting and no work, a day all who worship The One God of Israel are to afflict (`anah) their souls (nefesh). 

Three days later begins the seven days of Tabernacles or Sukkot. It's followed by the 8th monumental day, the great day. It's separate and distinct from Sukkot and is called Shemini Atzeret.

Keep a Batman's eyes on Shemini Atzeret and pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray for the people of of Israel, pray for God's hand

Humble yourself, open you heart, pray and cry toward heaven for heaven on earth to come.

PRAYER ALERT February 18, 2011: Seriously... I have no idea what possibly qualifies our nation's Secretary of State to declare herself as anyone's judge - much less Israel's but I am afraid that the latest headline is quite real. 

Israeli Settlements 'Illegitimate': Secretary of State Calls Working Toward Mideast Peace Her 'Highest Priority'.

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israeli settlements "illegitimate" shortly before the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement expansion as illegal. In an exclusive interview with "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour taped on Friday afternoon, Clinton said, "I think it is absolutely clear to say, number one, that it's been American policy for many years that settlements were illegitimate and it is the continuing goal and highest priority of the Obama administration to keep working toward a two-state solution with both Israelis and Palestinians."

"In December 2010, Clinton took a similarly harsh line against continued Israeli settlements. "We do not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity," she said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. "We believe their continued expansion is corrosive not only to peace efforts and two-state solution, but to Israel's future itself.""

PRAYER ALERT February 16, 2011: Foreign Policy reports: "In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council Posted By Colum Lynch Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 6:00 PM

The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.

But the Palestinians rejected the American offer following a meeting late Wednesday of Arab representative and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution Friday, according to officials familiar with the issue. The decision to reject the American offer raised the prospect that the Obama administration will cast its first ever veto in the U.N. Security Council."

PRAYER ALERT February 11, 2011: "In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens, during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the office of president of the republic and has charged the high council of the armed forces to administer the affairs of the country. May God help everybody." Vice-President Omar Suleiman of Egypt.

PRAYER ALERT: February 5, 2011: Just in case you have been watching and wondering why I have been providing so much information on the past two week's chaos in Egypt in this prayer alert page for Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet, the reason is simply seen when you read today's headline from Haaretz: 

Mideast Quartet: Israel-PA peace talks must advance quickly due to Egypt unrest. If you are not familiar with Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet, you will want to click here to link to the background story:
"Middle East negotiators say further delay in resumption of negotiations is detrimental to the prospects for regional peace and security. "The announcement, which was made at the end of a Quartet meeting in Munich, came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to delay the Quarter meet in recent days, claiming the timing wasn't right in light of the political crisis in Egypt.In a statement, the group said that in view of developments in the Middle East, the Quartet expresses its belief that further delay in the resumption of negotiations is detrimental to the prospects for regional peace and security.In a statement, the group said that in view of developments in the Middle East, the Quartet expresses its belief that further delay in the resumption of negotiations is detrimental to the prospects for regional peace and security.
The Quartet emphasized that the goal of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is the establishment of a Palestinian state by September. The group also said it regretted Israel's decision to end a 10-month moratorium on construction in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The meeting of Quarter members including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell, and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union Catherine Ashton. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the Quartet meeting - which also included Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. special envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and the Quartet's envoy Tony Blair - had delivered clear messages. "
In a further development from a Quartet member, Reuters reports.... Britain: Israel-Palestinian peace could help weaken Iran. If that is the understanding in Iran, then expect interference and disinformation to ramp up from Iran.
"Israel could bolster the international campaign to head off Iran's nuclear programme by pursuing peace with the Palestinians, Britain said on Sunday.The remarks by Defense Secretary Liam Fox ran counter to arguments by Israel, whose negotiations with the Palestinians stalled last year in a dispute over West Bank settlements that Palestine talks hinged on first curbing its Iranian arch-foe."
PRAYER ALERT February 1, 2011: AOL's Politics Daily columnist David Wood writes: 

"After President Hosni Mubarak leaves office, Egypt plunges into an uncharted future. There is no clear path for new leadership, no political mechanisms to channel the energy of the streets, and no experience of political action in the decades the country has been under emergency rule.

Between the teetering government and the chaotic crowds is the one organization with the heft, popularity and influence to dominate the tumult. 

In Egypt and beyond, its name -- the Muslim Brotherhood -- evokes fear.

It is a secretive, underground Islamist organization that has raised troops to fight Israel, called for global jihad against infidels and martyrdom for its youth. A Muslim Brotherhood gang assassinated former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel, and the Brotherhood inspired and maintains links with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda."

"At best, as the White House clearly hopes, the Muslim Brotherhood will emerge in the months of political turmoil ahead as a voice of stability, broad political participation and moderation. At worst, some analysts caution, the Ikhwan could establish a hard-line Islamist state under Sharia, or Islamic law, provide major financial and logistics support to terrorist groups, and even abrogate or disregard the peace treaty with Israel, plunging the region back into nerve-wracking armed confrontation." 

The Muslim Brotherhood evokes fear for a good God reason. Did you know Hamas is a spin off of that brotherhood?

YNet reports: Israel missing historic opportunity. 

 "German chancellor says stalemate in peace talks dangerous, settlement construction must stop. 'Europe won't turn its back on Israel and neither will US,' she adds. On Egypt Merkel says US has not 'stabbed Mubarak in back.'German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday for the continued construction in West Bank settlements and the stalemate in peace talks with the Palestinians."

Next door in Jordan... A New Prime Minister. CNN Reports: "The king of Jordan dismissed his government Tuesday and appointed a new prime minister with orders to implement political reform. The dismissal follows several protests calling for change in Jordan -- protests that echo demonstrations that have swept across North Africa and the Middle East in the last few weeks.King Abdullah II asked Marouf Al Bakhit to form a government in Jordan that will implement "genuine political reform," the Royal Court said in a statement. 

PRAYER ALERT January 30, 2011:
Haaretz reports: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood eyes unity gov't without Mubarak. Opposition group says will exclude reigning President's National Democratic Party from talks; Mohammed ElBaradei: "I have been mandated by the people."
"The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group,is in talks with other anti-government figures to form a national unity government without President Hosni Mubarak, a group official told DPA on Sunday. Although the Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned from running for elections for parliament, some movement members have presented candidacy for parliament as independents."
Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast.

PRAYER ALERT January 28, 2011: I would recommend that if your consider yourself a watchman, you might consider looking at Bill Koenig's report titled, "Koenig's Eye View." In this week’s edition he reports that Elias Bejjani states:
“A final military confrontation between the Free World and the 'Axis of Evil' that includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah is inevitable.Based on the lessons of Hitler's aggression, the sooner this bloody confrontation occurs, the better. Every passing day makes the price of blood and treasure to be paid more and more expensive. 
Koenig's perspective: Elias Bejjani, a Lebanese, is very well respected and connected inside of Lebanon. He said, "A final military confrontation between the Free World and the 'Axis of Evil' that includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah is inevitable."The Psalm 83 nations and Syria are taking their final-day positions.”
Reuters now reports that Jordan is the latest in the line of Arab uprisings: Jordanian Protesters Demand Political Reforms By Suleiman al-Khalidi AMMAN | Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:03am EST 

(Reuters) - "Islamists, leftists and trade unionists gathered in central Amman Friday for the latest protest to demand political change and wider freedoms. A crowd of at least 3,000 chanted: "We want change." Banners and chants showed a wider range of grievances than the high food prices that fueled earlier protests, and included demands for free elections, the dismissal of Prime Minister Samir Rifai's government and a representative parliament. The protest after Friday prayers were organized by the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood which is the only effective opposition and biggest party, but included members of leftist parties and trade unions. Jordan's protests, as in several Arab countries, have been inspired by the uprising that overthrew the Tunisian president."

YNet News reports: "Still, Jordan's economy struggles, weighed down by a record deficit of $2 billion this year. Inflation has also risen by 1.5 percent to 6.1 percent just last month, unemployment and poverty are rampant - estimated at 12 and 25 percent respectively.Members of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and Jordan's largest opposition party, swelled the ranks of the demonstrators, massing outside the al-Husseini mosque in Amman and filling the downtown streets with their prayer lines.

As they broke into a procession, the demonstrators chanted, "In the name of God, the government must change" and the Muslim holy book "Quran is our constitution, jihad is our path.""

PRAYER ALERT January 26, 2011: The New York Times reports unrest has spread Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region

"Thousands of protesters on Thursday took to the streets of Yemen, one of the Middle East’s most impoverished countries, and secular and Islamist Egyptian opposition leaders vowed to join large protests expected Friday as calls for change rang across the Arab world.The Yemeni protests were another moment of tumult in a region whose aging order of American-backed governments appears to be staggering. 

In a span of just weeks, Tunisia’s government has fallen, Egypt’s appears shaken and countries like Jordan and Yemen are bracing against demands of movements with divergent goals but similar means.Protests led by young people entered a third day in Egypt, where Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate who has become an outspoken opponent of President Hosni Mubarak, returned in hopes of galvanizing the campaign. The Muslim Brotherhood, long Egypt’s largest organized opposition, ended days of official inaction and said it would join the Friday protests, declaring “a day of rage for the Egyptian nation.”"
They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt. Hosea 7:16
PRAYER ALERT January 25, 2011: Today's news is major and while it is not directly related to the Quartet or the Peace Process it will have an impact so I am including it here. North of Israel, Iranian funded Hezbollah assumes control of Lebanon's government today as fire, gunshots and street clashes are seen in Lebanon's Beirut & Tripoli.

CBS News reports... Lebanon's Sunni Muslims are outraged that the Iranian-backed Shiite group Hezbollah is taking over their country's government. The Miami Herald reports: Israelis gird for violent spillover of Lebanon crisis ... "Security officials in Israel closely monitored the "day of rage" in Lebanon on Tuesday amid fears that political violence there could spill over into a new conflagration with Israel.

As hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Lebanon to protest the naming of a Hezbollah-backed politician as prime minister, Israel beefed up security along its northern border. Since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, tensions have remained high between Israel and Hezbollah, a militant group that operates in southern Lebanon close to the Israeli border."

"Hezbollah has issued numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel - while Israeli officials have repeatedly called Hezbollah a terrorist organization that poses a "direct threat to the Jewish State."The nomination of Hezbollah-backed Prime Minister Najib Mikati this week was seen as a victory for the Shiite group, while followers loyal to outgoing premier Saad Hariri, a U.S. ally, took to the streets to protest.

But those demonstrations were small and fractured, and Mikati seemed to have cobbled together enough support within the political system to assume power. In Israel, politicians warned that the new Hezbollah government took it farther into the arms of extremist Islamic regimes, and away from its Western alliances." At the same time, a defiant Palestinian President Abbas claims he is on the right path and that Jerusalem must be the capital of the Palestinian state as documents leaked implicating he has made concessions to Israel in peace talks led by The Quartet. Team Abbas denies this.

Meanwhile, south of Israel in Egypt... DEBKAfile reports: Egyptians riot against Mubarak 

"More than 100,000 turned out Tuesday, Jan. 25 in central Cairo and other Egyptian cities for stormy demonstrations such as Egypt has not seen for more than a quarter century.Airing many grievances, they called on President Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years in power. Officials said three people had been killed in clashes between stone-throwing demonstrators and policemen using tear gas, water cannon and night sticks – two demonstrators and a policeman. Debkafile's sources report the number is higher and, while no figure was given for the injured, our sources estimate that there were at least 150. After dark Tuesday, the authorities announced that Mubarak's supporters would mount a counter-demonstration the following day. A collision between the two camps might well lead to further upheavals."

Yesterday, in Russia, a terrorist pipe bomb struck and killed 35. According to The Washington Times: 

"Russian authorities sift through the wreckage of the Moscow airport attack, the world’s attention will be drawn to the Muslim separatists who experts suspect carried out the Monday bombing.

Known as Imarat Kavkaz, or the Caucasus Emirate, the group was formed in 2007 with the goal of bringing Islamic law to the North Caucasus, a region of Russia that includes Chechnya, an Islamic-majority province that has been in some form of rebellion against Moscow since the 19th century. No one had claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack at Moscow’s busiest airport, but analysts in Washington said all signs pointed to the hand of the Caucasus Emirate." 

From Tunisia. Revolt... Ben Ali has fled.. horrific change will begin to be seen in the Mid East. 

PRAYER ALERT January 2, 2011: YNets News.com reports: Palestinian foreign minister says Chile to announce its approval in coming weeks, ahead of visit by its president to Palestinian territories. 


"PA officials reported that Paraguay is preparing to the step in the coming weeks as well, and that a Palestinian embassy is expected to open in Ecuador. Many South American states have announced recently their willingness to recognize a Palestinian state and others, like Mexico and Paraguay, said they are considering the matter."

PRAYER ALERT December 25, 2010: Please, please read this report from the Arabic Daily, Asharq Al-Aawsat. As you can see for yourself, the excerpt states that momentum is building for the declaration of a Palestinian state by summer 2011.

This could be an ignition fuse for Mid East war as the nations from around the globe oppose Israel and seek to divide the land and Jerusalem but I don't think the time is right, just yet... 

"After the Israeli – Palestinian negotiations broke down over the issue of an Israeli settlement freeze, the Palestinian side have taken another track, attempting to gain international recognition of a Palestinian state. Indeed, the Palestinian side has achieved successes in this regard, particularly in Latin America, with Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia officially recognizing an independent state of Palestine along its 1967 borders, and Ecuador, Uruguay, and Paraguay expected to officially recognize a state of Palestine within the next year. 

There have also been successes in Europe, with France, Portugal, and Norway increasing the diplomatic status of Palestine.Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to Palestinian National Authority Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki about the diplomatic effort being exerted by the Palestinians to gain international recognition for the state of Palestine. Al-Maliki attributed the successes mentioned above to "collective effort and cumulative work, in which everyone participated, from the President, through to the government, and ending with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and our embassies. This was not something new, but rather a continued effort which has been carried out for a significant period." 

Al-Maliki added "so far, we have succeeded in convincing France, Spain and Portugal, in terms of countries from the European Union [to increase our diplomatic status], and then last week there was the Norwegian initiative, which has been strongly attacked by the Israeli Foreign Ministry."

Everyone should know, only "Judah" has returned to the Promised Land today, but Scripture tells us Ephraim will return. 

This is a great promise that few understand, yet it is reference in dozens of the prophecies of the Scriptures. It is one you need to be familiar with so I write a lot about it in My Scripture Studies.

Yet since 1948, it is Judah with some companions alone in the land... but now the whistle will soon go out from God for mighty Ephraim to join Judah. It is time to wake up to your identity as a believer in The God of Israel!!!
"When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man." Zechariah 9:13
Read the Bible and you'll see Judah has always led the way since the Exodus, but Ephraim aka Joseph will be called to join him, to help him, so it's no wonder that Zechariah tells us what God has to say on the matter:
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD their God, and will hear them. 
And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty [man], and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see [it], and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. 
I will whistle for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. Zechariah 10:6-8
Today the news points to a difficult time ahead for Judah, the Jews in today's land of Israel:
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. 
All who try to move it will injure themselves." Zechariah 12:2-3
The word stone or rock here is (eben), its Hebrew word meaning includes "plummet" stones of destruction made of metal ore, a tool for a weapon. Something that weighs down or oppresses; a burden, suddenly and steeply. 

I am no prophet, but if this day will soon stand before us, and if you feel the call to pray for Israel now or then it means you have a heart of concern for brother Judah so you must prepare yourself now. 

You need to start by knowing your identity in God's eyes, in His word.

Check out this commentary: The Lost Sheep Scriptures. After all, hopefully by now you know the goal of The Quartet and its united member nations that seek to divide Israel geographically into three parts, two for the Palestinians including 1) Gaza and the 2) West Bank, leaving 3) tiny Israeli territory between these two. 

This is easily seen on the map at the head of the original post. Just click on it for a larger view and you need to know what that map means for you. 

Zechariah warns us regarding the events we see today and what we will see tomorrow. Israel the third part of the divided land, will come through the horrific fire to come and they will defend themselves but you must not be a bystander and take the wrong side and you need to know why.
"And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith Y-H-V-H, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left therein. 
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: 
I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, Y-H-V-H [is] my God." Zechariah 13:8-9
The name is not Allah. In Biblical times like today it's gonna get hot, very hot. 

Silver is obtained by smelting lead and sulphur ore. After the ore is reduced to a metallic condition at about 1,200 degrees, the worthless lead is separated from the silver by blasting hot air over the melted metal, leaving the pure refined silver.

In the Bible silver represent redemption, always has, always will.

PRAYER ALERT December 21, 2010 Setting the Record Straight is a new documentary report available from Jerusalem Depot:
"Since 1948 the nation of Israel has been forced to defend itself from enemy attacks. Furthermore, Israel has been and is continually attacked in the political and media arenas as well. The latest attack has come against Israel from a side angle, via the newly released film With God on our Side. This film has as its agenda to show Israel as a repressive regime which is causing unnecessary harassment to Arab residents in Israeli territory. The film is completely one-sided and does not relate history or events accurately. Setting the Record Straight is a direct response to the film..."
PRAYER ALERT December 18, 2010: In this recent interview with BigThink, former U.S. President and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter states:
"When I left office, we had an agreement, a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, not a word of which has been violated. And we had an agreement with the Israelis to withdraw from their occupied territories in the West Bank and also later, the idea was for them to withdraw from Syria and also from Lebanon. Unfortunately, in the last 25 years, no progress has been made on those issues that depend upon Israel’s willingness to withdraw from occupied territories. And I don’t think peace is possible until that comes. 
Of course, the other aspect of that is to make sure that the Israelis know that if they do withdraw from the West Bank, from East Jerusalem, from Syria and from Lebanon, that their security and their integrity as a nation will be preserved with safety. So that’s been the quandary in which we have wallowed in a way for the last 25 years, and my hope is that we will make some progress in the near future."
It is amazing that the West Bank and East Jerusalem fits in with Syria and Lebanon in Carter's definition... Let's take a look at reality from Camp David where President Carter proposed "A Framework for Peace in the Middle East" which did not address withdrawal from East Jerusalem as President Carter now intimates in his recent interview. 

In fact, the following text is from the letter from Prime Minister Menachem Begin to President Carter. It is what really happened at Camp David in regard to Israel's resolution on Jerusalem, its indivisible capital city.
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The President Camp David Thurmont, Maryland 17 September 1978 Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to inform you, Mr. President, that on 28 June 1967 - Israel's parliament (The Knesset) promulgated and adopted a law to the effect: "the Government is empowered by a decree to apply the law, the jurisdiction and administration of the State to any part of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel - Palestine), as stated in that decree." On the basis of this law, the government of Israel decreed in July 1967 that Jerusalem is one city indivisible, the capital of the State of Israel. Sincerely, Menachem Begin 
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PRAYER ALERT December 17, 2010: More on the "craftsmen" from Agence France Presse:


Lyon: Interpol said it had received information from its office in Baghdad about possible Al-Qaida attacks on US and European targets.

"We received information yesterday from the Interpol office in Baghdad about possible threats, especially in the US and Europe, due to orders given to Al-Qaida cells by Al-Qaida commanders," the global police agency said. All 188 countries which are members of the agency have been informed of the possible threats, said a spokeswoman at Interpol's headquarters in the French city of Lyon. Europe has been on high alert for several weeks over heightened fears of terrorist attacks in the run-up to the busy Christmas period. On Saturday, Sweden's first-ever suicide bombing narrowly missed Christmas shoppers.

The Al-Qaida-linked website Shumukh al-Islam named the bomber as Taymour Abdelwahab, reportedly born in Iraq, who became a Swedish citizen in 1992 but was radicalised while attending a university in Britain. He was carrying a cocktail of explosives and is believed to have detonated one charge prematurely on what officials said appeared to be a mission to kill as many people as possible on Stockholm's busiest pedestrian thoroughfare. Western security officials have warned that Al-Qaida may be planning attacks in Europe similar to those that struck the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008. The United States issued on October 3 a travel alert for its citizens travelling in Europe, citing the risk of potential terrorist attacks on transportation systems and tourist attractions. Similar alerts were issued by Japan, Sweden, Britain and France.

A plot to blow up cargo planes was uncovered in late October after booby-trapped parcels were found at airports in Dubai and Britain.

PRAYER ALERT November 23, 2010: In the original Zechariah's Vision post on this matter the potential names of today's craftsmen of Zechariah were suggested and one of them is none other than North Korea. 

As the nations line up against Israel, the craftsmen oppose those that want to divide the land. Zechariah says the craftsmen terrify the nations who lift up their governments "against the land of Judah to scatter its people". 

Today, we have this report that North Korea, (not unlike Gaza) fired artillery shells against Yeonpyeong Island South Korea. Four people died, two South Korean marines and two civilians. 

So ask yourself, why doesn't the U.S. condemn the PLO when rockets are fired almost daily against Israel? Do you see what is really going on regarding Israel... it is deception.

Meanwhile, like the response regarding the rockets that are fired against Israel, there is no response to the terror... Pentagon: No Plan for Military Response to North Korean Attack. From ABC News:

"President Obama today strongly condemned North Korea's attack on South Korea and, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters, urged China to take a stand against aggression"

"This is a -- just one more provocative incident in a series that we've seen over the last several months, and I'm going to be talking to the president of Korea -- South Korea this evening and we'll be consulting closely with them in terms of the appropriate response," the president said. "We've strongly condemned the attack...We are rallying the international community once again to put pressure on North Korea."

Obama wouldn't speculate on military actions the U.S. may take, but reiterated that South Korea is "one of our most important allies" and "a cornerstone of U.S. security in the Pacific region.""

PRAYER ALERT November 5, 2010: Jerusalem - The British Consulate-General led by Consul General Mr. Richard Makepeace announces that the UK and Palestine sign the first treaty between the two nations. I did not make that name up. The name is "Makepeace". You can write to him and express your thoughts about dividing Israel at: 

British Consulate-General 
19 Nashashibi Street Sheikh Jarrah Quarter 
P O Box 19690 East Jerusalem 97200

PRAYER ALERT November 1, 2010: What do you know, a seven year land agreement has been proposed. 

Jerusalem National News reports: "Israeli sources on Monday confirmed that the US proposed that Israel lease parts of the Jordan Valley from the Palestinians for an additional seven years, Army Radio reported."

PRAYER ALERT October 24, 2010: The Jerusalem Post reports that a two-week Vatican conference comprised of 250 Bishps declares, there is no longer a chosen people - God's promise to Israel was "nullified by Jesus". 

The final statement was delivered by Cyril Salim Bustros, the Lebanon-born Greek archbishop of Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston, Massachusetts.

"The Vatican in January blamed Israel not only for the exodus of Christians from Arab-occupied territories, but for the plight of Christians across the entire Middle East... Pope Benedict XVI was in attendance at the conference... Pope Benedict XVI first called for a two-state final solution during a visit to the region in May 2009 when he voiced the Vatican's support of a sovereign Arab homeland. The statement, which served as the basis for the latest Vatican conference, was also authored by Arab bishops from the Middle East, who argued that Israel's "occupation" of Arab-claimed lands is the root cause of most of the oppression suffered by Christians in the region."

This statement followed the first week of the conference which focused on "ecumenism" the desire to overcome splits between Catholics and Christian churches and how to dialogue with Islam.

From The Jerusalem Center Israel: Any future agreement with the Palestinians, has a critical need for defensible borders. This video outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east. 


 "The United Nations Security Council could support the Palestinian’s unilateral bid for statehood if Israel does not renew its freeze on new settlement construction, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry warned Israel on Tuesday.

“If the freeze is not renewed, then yes, maybe this is going to happen,” Serry said as he spoke with The Jerusalem Post in an olive grove in the West Bank village of Turmus Aiya, located in the Binyamin Region near the Shiloh settlement. He held a joint event there with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to mark the founding of the UN 65 years ago. But he qualified his remarks by noting that he was an official of the UN and not a member of the Security Council, whose 15-member body would make such a decision. 

The PA has threatened to turn to the UN and ask for recognition of Palestinian statehood inside the 1967 lines if the diplomatic process breaks down. The Palestinians said they would not resume talks unless Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu resumed a settlement moratorium, and Netanyahu has said he would consider the possibility of bringing an additional freeze to the cabinet if the Palestinians would recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people – something they are refusing to do." 

PRAYER ALERT October 13, 2010: Perhaps one of Zechariah's "craftsmen" is in Lebanon today calling for an investigation of 9/11. 


"Mahmoud fueled his claims that the US government was behind the Sept 11 attack on America and demanded to ‘know the truth of what happened’ during his visit to Lebanon."

"Speaking at a late night rally, he said: “I announce that the formation of an independent and neutral team to examine the facts and discover the truth of the September 11 events is the demand of all the peoples of the region and the world.”

"Earlier in the day, thousands held up flowers and Iranian flags as Mr Ahmedinejad waved through the open roof of an armoured car that carried him through the Shia Muslim strongholds of south Beirut, the Lebanese capital."

"The Iranian leader took the opportunity during his trip to lash out at Israel following talks with Mr Sleiman."We fully support the resistance of the Lebanese people against the Zionist regime," he said. "Lebanon is not only a source of pride for the Lebanese but for the region because Lebanon has changed the balance of power in favour of the people of the region.""

PRAYER ALERT October 6, 2010: Perhaps today is a good time to back to 2008 to gain a perspective on "The Quartet" plan to divide the land. 

According to the 2008 paper This Land is My Land:

"The “Road Map” vision, as well as continuous pressure from the “Quartet” (U.S., the European Union, the UN and Russia) to surrender parts of Eretz-Israel are contrary to international law that firmly call to “encourage … close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.” It also requires the Mandatory for “seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the government of any foreign power.”"

PRAYER ALERT October 5, 2010: Following statements made by Jordan' King Abdullah that he expects war by the end of the year if the Peace Talks falter due to settlement construction, the Jerusalem Post reports:

"The failure of peace talks will result in widespread violence, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview with the journal of the Egyptian Armed Forces. The report, published Tuesday, included the remarks made by the Egyptian leader to mark the 37th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was in Cairo on Tuesday and set to meet with Mubarak to discuss the latest developments."

PRAYER ALERT October 3, 2010: BBC News reports" "The Palestinian leadership has said it will not continue peace talks with Israel unless a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank resumes".

Meanwhile, from the Tehran Times we have a report that Syria's President Assad Bashar flew to Tehran this weekend to meet with Iran's Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

"Ayatollah Khamenei told Assad that the United States’ efforts to undermine the resistance movement in the Middle East region will not bear fruit. The Leader praised Syria for its strength and forbearance in the face of external pressure and called for the expansion of ties between Tehran and Damascus.
At the same time, grave security concerns are announced by the U.S. as other Craftsmen continue to threaten violence in Europe."

PRAYER ALERT September 29, 2010: Israel Today reports: New Jewish houses have world fuming 

"True to his word, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allowed the self-imposed Jewish building freeze in Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”) to lapse and for approved construction projects there to resume. 

Work began on Monday on at least 2,000 new housing units and a number of new schools in Jewish communities throughout the territories the Palestinians claim for their future state. Netanyahu had been under heavy pressure to extend the freeze, and has been doing his best to keep a low profile both for himself and for Israel since the freeze expired on Sunday. But that hasn’t stopped the world from moaning."

As noted in Zechariah's Vision and the Quartet as "The Quartet" goal is to divide the Promised Land, and the "Craftsmen" continue to oppose and threaten members of The Quartet as reported by this Fox News report and Bloomberg News following the death of eight German militants killed in a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan. 

The fallout is that the U.S has warned all citizens traveling to Europe of possible danger. Meanwhile, France has warned its citizens of a very high terror risk in Britain as 12 suspected militants were arrested in France.

PRAYER ALERT September 27, 2010: I started this commentary on "The Quartet" by asking readers to view a clip of an eye opening interview with former President Jimmy Carter. 

Today, I'd encourage you to watch another interview. But this is no comedy, this interview is with King Abdullah II of Jordan, in it Jordan's King expounds on what he said in February as he us of the plans of the nations that surround Israel.On February 4, 2010 I referenced a prior interview with Jordan's King.

If you have not seen it, you ought to.

During the most recent interview, with Jordan's Coat of Arms in the background, King Abdullah II tells the world that Israel may face war by year's end. 

He states that he foresees war if Israel allows the construction moratorium to end in the so-called "occupied territory" of the West Bank, Israel's land which was re-gained from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War. 

He goes on to say that war will involve our U.S. troops as well. The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 allotted the West Bank to the Palestinians but the area was instead occupied by Jordan after the 1948 war and Jordan acting on their own with only the support of the U.K. annexed the West Bank in 1950 under the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line.

During the 1967 Six Day War, Jerusalem and the West Bank came under Israeli military control and later Israel began developing needed infrastructure in the area. In 1988, King Abdullah's father, King Hussein surrendered all Jordanian claims to the West Bank to the PLO and in 1993 under the PLO "letters of recognition", most of the area came under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority with partial Israeli military control.

Watchmen you need to keep your eyes wide open to understand the times and what is being said so that you can tell others and pray earnestly for the Peace of Jerusalem.At around 1:31 minutes into the interview, regarding The Quartet's Peace Process", Jon Steward makes this statement:
"The process, they say now, we have a year."
And then he asks the King of Jordan:
"But aren't there, you know, isn't the real deadline the settlements freeze expires in a week?
King Abdullah II responds:
"That is what the challenge is today. For the first time, the Israelis and the Palestinians are back to direct negotiations. We lost almost nine months of the ten months for the moratorium on settlements which ends on the 30th of September.The discussions that we had in Washington sided out better than we could have expected. Both sides made a lot of ground, and if the issue of the settlements is still on the table on the 30th, then everybody walks away and if they do how are we going to get people back to the table?I don't see that happening in the near future, so if we fail on the 30th, expect another war by the end of the year."
Jon Stewart, leans forward when he hears this statement and asks:
"Expect another...?"
King Abdullah then expounds further:
"Expect another war by the end of the year, and more wars that I foresee in the region over the coming years. You already have two wars in our part of the world, you already have troops in two other hot spots. I can see potential crisis number five, six or seven. 
Unless we solve this problem not only do we as the Arabs and Israelis pay the price for it but your loved ones in harm's way will continue to be in the trenches with the rest of us. So everything is riding now on whether we can get both parties beyond the 30th, and so much is riding on our future."
The King may be right, there may be a war coming this year or in the years to come, but Watchmen need to get on the wall and be in prayer as Daniel prayed. No, these potential wars are NOT Armageddon. They will be resolved, at least for a short while, because as Paul said: "When they say there is Peace and Security then sudden destruction will come upon them..."As Daniel did, we are to pray with humility, petition and fasting, and with confession to our great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and demonstrate that love by seeking obedience to his words of instruction in return for His gift of love for us. An excerpt from Daniel 9:
"Our sins and the iniquities of our fathers have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us. "Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, O Lord, look with favour on your desolate sanctuary. Give ear, 'O God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For your sake, O my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name."
PRAYER ALERT September 21, 2010: Excerpt of the Statement by the Quartet Office of the Spokesman - Washington, DC
"The Quartet expressed its strong support for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which can resolve all final status issues within one year. The Quartet reaffirmed its full commitment to its previous statements, which provide that negotiations should lead to an agreement that ends the occupation that began in 1967 and results in the emergence of an independent, democratic, contiguous, and viable Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors."
PRAYER ALERT September 19, 2010: From EMET News:

"Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) wrapped up more than four hours of direct talks last week with no agreement on the subject of Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem. PA/PLO President Mahmoud Abbas gave little indication that he was willing to continue talks if Israel does not extend the construction moratorium, which expires September 30. 

Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, accompanied by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell, met first in the Egyptian Sinai resort town of Sharm A-Sheikh on Tuesday and then in Israel at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday.Aides to the two men are scheduled to continue negotiations this coming week, but no date has been set for another meeting at the leadership level.Clinton said in the interview that both leaders had grappled early with core issues in dispute. 

The "core issues" include the status of Jerusalem -- of which the PA/PLO claims the eastern portion for its capital of a future PA/PLO state, the "right of return" for descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948, and the future of 400,000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria -- the territory staked out by the Arabs, the US, UN, EU, and others for a future Arab terrorist state, in which Jews will not be allowed to live.Additional "core issues" include the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and ensuring security for Israel's citizens, but both of these were not mentioned. 

Also not mentioned, but introduced by former US President Bill Clinton at the 2000 Camp David talks, was reparations for Jews driven from Arab lands in 1948. 

US Secretary of State Clinton repeated her call for "comprehensive peace", going beyond Israel and the PA/PLO, i.e., with Syria."We believe that it is not only important to pursue the Palestinian -Israeli negotiations but a comprehensive regional peace consistent with the heart of the Arab-Israeli peace initiative," she stated. 

Mitchell met Thursday with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. Earlier in the week French envoy Claude Cousseran was in Damascus to meet with Assad and push Israel-Syria peace talks. Syria has demanded that Israel hand over the Golan Heights, which were under Syrian control between 1948 and 1967, and have been in Israeli hands since the 1967 Six Day War. Israel officially annexed the area in 1981.  

Syria has demanded that Israel agree in principle to relinquish the entire Golan before talks begin, a demand that Israel has rejected. Israeli leaders say Syria must end its ties with Iran and with Arab terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Assad expressed skepticism that his country and Israel would reach a deal.

Meanwhile, in a surprising development reported by CHANNEL 1 national television on Tuesday evening, Netanyahu is scheduled to fly to Washington DC on Sunday. The station's political reporter Ayala Hasson said the trip is "90% certain" to take place and that it seems to reflect some kind of political development, but that the nature of the development is not known. [Washington Post, Reuters, AFP, EJP, US Department of State, Arutz Sheva] "

This news comes seven weeks after Syria's President Bashar al-Assad warned that the Middle East is increasingly moving toward regional hostilities. 

Syria has long been known to be linked to Iran as well as a sponsor of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant Hamas.

Today we can all see that Russia is supporting Iran with nuclear technologies and supporting Syria with weapons technologies with recent arms sales to Syria that include MiG-29 fighter jets, Pantsir short-range air defence systems and armored vehicles. In August 2011, Assad said Damascus would stand by its claim to the Golan Heights, which has been under Israeli occupation since Tel Aviv's full-scale offensives against the Arab territories in 1967. 

Syria's desire for weapons is a threat to Israel, I don't think I'd want to spend too much time in Damascus.

PRAYER ALERT September 18, 2010: AOLNews reports: Iranian president stops in Syria on way to UN 

"DAMASCUS, Syria -Iran's president said Saturday that Middle Eastern countries will "disrupt" American and Israeli plans to change the political geography of the region, appearing to brush aside U.S. efforts to forge a regional peace deal between Israel and its neighbors. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comments during a brief stop in Syria, a key all in Tehran's confrontation with the West, where he held talks with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad. The meeting comes two days after Assad sat down with the Obama administration's special Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, in Damascus to discuss starting separate Syria-Israel peace talks."

Israel National News reports: Iran Threatens Israel Once Again 

"Iranian and Syrian leaders meet for two hours at Damascus airport on Yom Kippur. "No room for Israel in the Middle East," Ahmadinajad says. Following the meeting, Iran's English-language news agency reported that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinajad repeated what he has said countless times in the past, that Israel has no place in a future Middle East. He also called the talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority a "failure."" "The SANA Syrian news agency reported that Ahmadinajad and Assad had discussed, among other things, the need to unite the various factions in Iraq in order that a new government be established there quickly."

PRAYER ALERT September 16, 2010: As Tropical Storm Julia and multiple hurricanes Carl and Igor move toward North America consider DEBKAfile's Exclusive Report on events in Damascus, Syria: Mitchell to hand Assad Netanyahu's proposed Golan withdrawal map 

"Following the two-day Israeli-Palestinian face-to-face supervised by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell prepared for a major US diplomatic breakthrough during his visit to Damascus Thursday: The possible revival of Syrian-Israeli peace talks. 

He carries with him for Syrian president Bashar Assad a detailed map drawn up by Binyamin Netanyahu to represent Israel's proposed withdrawal from much of the Golan. This map is a DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive.

The Israeli prime minister refused to go into borders between Israel and the future Palestinian state at the talks he held with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, Sept 14. First he wanted to dispose of other issues such as security.His tactics for Syria are quite different. Three months ago, Netanyahu showed President Barack Obama detailed maps of the Golan showing how far he was willing to pull Israel forces back, provided Assad followed in the footsteps of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat who visited Jerusalem in November 1977 and was rewarded with a full peace accord with Israel and the recovery of the entire Sinai Peninsula and its demilitarization."

PRAYER ALERT September 6, 2010: Haaretz Breaking News! Jordan and Syria call for Israeli withdrawal from all Arab lands. Leaders of both states say that Israel must return to pre-1967 borders in order to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

"Jordanian King Abdullah II and Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday stressed the need for Israel to pull out from all Arab territories it occupied in the 1967 war, if peace with the Palestinians is to be achieved. Abdullah made a whirlwind visit to Damascus to brief the Syrian leader on the outcome of his talks in Washington last week with United States President Barack Obama, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a royal court statement said."

This is an interesting comment in the report: 

"Abdullah and al-Assad also agreed to continue "coordination and consultation" on all bilateral and regional issues and discussed means of boosting pan-Arab action "to cope with common challenges."

PRAYER ALERT September 4, 2010: We have been keeping a keen eye on The Quartet. But we must mot forget the "Craftsmen". Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke up about the talks in Washington D.C. from Iran during the annual protest against Israel known as Al-Quds Day. Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. AOLNews reports: 

"Abbas' journey home coincided with the last Friday of Ramadan, marked as "Jerusalem Day" in Iran, where hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to demand the liberation of Jerusalem, the annihilation of Israel and punishment for the United States.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who backs Hamas and other extreme groups with both cash and weapons, accused Abbas and his negotiating team of being accomplices to Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.We must ask, Who will conduct the talks? Who do they represent? Who gave him the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians? Who has the right to cede part of Palestine to enemies? The region's nations will not allow anyone to give up even one centimeter of Palestine," said Ahmadinejad."These talks are doomed to fail," he said, adding, "But more important is that the Zionist regime itself is doomed to collapse anyway."

As noted in this article by Matthew Kalman, Mahmoud Abbas' constitutional term as President of the PLO has expired. 

"Abbas, already governing on borrowed time since his constitutional term of office expired in January 2009, now appears to be ruling alone as well. Hamas, its rejectionist allies and their Iranian patrons denounced the Washington talks from the start."

The New York Times offers more on the PLO leader's four year "term" story which is complicated due to the Hamas' radical Islamic rule of Gaza and the Palestinian parliament. We must remember Hamas won the PLO's Parliamentary majority in the 2006 elections.

This is important! 

If an agreement is reached within the next year, many that oppose it in the Mideast will say it is invalid. Something tells me the Palestinian parliament will not ratify any agreement that Abbas makes with Netanyahu. 

It makes me wonder what "International Law" will give Abbas the authority he needs to sign an agreement to divide the Land and Jerusalem? So if your know your history, you may have noticed that a key player was missing from the meetings in Washington D.C. 

Who was it? None other than Syria. If you think that this is an odd statement consider this and ask yourself, Why were the leaders of Egypt and Jordan there? Simple, it is all about eliminating the results of the 1967 Six Day War.It is all about wiping Israel "off the map" as far as the land and territories that were returned to Israel in 1967, it is not about peace. But just wait, Syria will get involved quickly, very quickly.

PRAYER ALERT September 2, 2010: Three years after the Annapolis Conference, Robert Danin with the Council on Foreign Relations comments from The Quartet's office in Jerusalem. He talks to Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC and Rob Malley of the International Crisis Group regarding the talks which are being mediated directly by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and attended by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II. At the end of the day, their objective will be to divide Israel by resigning the so called West Bank which is Biblical Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians as well as dividing Jerusalem into the Jewish West and the Muslim East.

It is my opinion that events will establish an agreement to divide Israel for peace and that the resulting agreement will track with the prophecies of Scripture that describe those that ultimately seek to oppose and divide the land not by God's plan according to the inheritance Abraham and of the 12 tribes of Israel ( Numbers 34) but by man's plans that will lead to war as America turns it back and ignores its promise to protect Israel. 


Listen to their historic words which include in order: Egypt's President Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and the PLO's Mahmoud Abbas. Perhaps it is only my own perception, but it just seemed odd to me to watch President Obama standing there right next to the podium, barely providing elbow room as he was looking over each leader's shoulder, seemingly as if to read over their notes while each man stated their objectives.

And as Palestinian Authority terrorists from in both Fatah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for attacks on Israeli citizens in a demonstrated opposition to the "Peace Talks" the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Chairman Abbas opened his remarks noting that He looks forward to reaching "a Palestinian-Israeli Peace Agreement covering all the permanent status issues within a year in accordance with International Law and relevant resolutions".Really? Sounds good, but a bit mysterious?

So ask yourself this... What does in accordance with "International Law" really mean? 

The fact is there is no world government, no international legislature, no world parliment, no global judiciary or executive branch established by man, period. 

It is time to wake up. 

The only global rule is God's, the only document of world law is His word, His Torah and He is the judge of all mankind!

PRAYER ALERT August 20, 2010: "Peace and Security" talks to begin in Washington D.C. on Thursday September 2, 2010. This is precisely seven days before Yom Teruah - The Appointed Biblical Day of Trumpets. As a Bible student, I find this to be amazing. Link to the audio report from United Nations Radio and read this statement from the United Nations Secretary General SG2161: "The following statement was issued today by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union): 

"The representatives of the Quartet reaffirm their strong support for direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians to resolve all final status issues. The Quartet reaffirms its full commitment to its previous statements, including in Trieste on 26 June 2009, in New York on 24 September 2009, and its statement in Moscow on 19 March 2010, which provides that direct, bilateral negotiations that resolve all final status issues should “lead to a settlement, negotiated between the parties, that ends the occupation which began in 1967 and results in the emergence of an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbours”.

The Quartet expresses its determination to support the parties throughout the negotiations, which can be completed within one year, and the implementation of an agreement. The Quartet again calls on both sides to observe calm and restraint, and to refrain from provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric. Welcoming the result of the Arab Peace Initiative Committee in Cairo on 29 July, the Quartet notes that success will require sustained regional and international support for the negotiations and the parallel process of Palestinian state-building and the pursuit of a just, lasting and comprehensive regional peace as envisaged in the Madrid terms of reference, Security Council resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative. 

The Quartet principals intend to meet with their colleagues from the Arab League in September in New York to review the situation. Accordingly, the Quartet calls on the Israelis and the Palestinians to join in launching direct negotiations on 2 September in Washington, D.C., to resolve all final status issues and fulfil the aspirations of both parties."

To view the full 35 minute video report from the State Department on establishing "Peace and Security" by dividing the land of Israel just click here to watch U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell describe the plan

 Whatever you see or hear in today's headlines, remember this, In These Dark days, The Lord is Watching Over His Land:
     

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2Timothy 1:7 

This is the end of the archive Prayer Alert page for the periodic news updates and commentary that are posted here to provide a daily reminder as "The Quartet" seeks to oppose and divide the nation of Israel and that will one day be your problem if you stand on the wrong side of the fence.

Shalom.

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