Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’

-Revelation 21:1-4

    

  

On the morning of October 7, Hamas led Palestinian armed groups carried out numerous coordinated attacks including on civilian residential communities and social events. The armed groups attacked at least 19 kibbutzim and 5 moshavim (civilian communities) two music festivals and a beach party. Palestinians fired directly at civilians, often at close range, as they tried to flee, and at people driving through the area. The attacker hurdled grenades, shot into shelters, and fired rocket propelled grenades into homes. They set houses on fire, burning and choking people, and forcing out others whom they shot or captured.

-Human Rights Watch

The laws of war have been clearly violated that amount to war crimes, including attacks targeting civilians willfully killing people in custody; cruel and inhumane treatment; crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence; hostage taking; mutilation and despoiling bodies; use of human shields; and pillage and looting. Killing civilians and taking hostages were central aims of the planned attack, not an afterthought, a plan gone awry, or isolated acts. Human Rights Watch concluded that the planned murder of civilians and the hostage-taking were crimes against humanity.

-Humans Rights Watch

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power.

-2 Timothy 3:1-5

Jesus answered: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.’

-Matthew 24: 4-14

During the early part of the twentieth century, a movement began in the center of Europe that sought to create a new world order. Those who were part of this movement believed that some people were destined to rule the earth - and others to be destroyed. In the events that followed, millions of people were murdered and entire ways of life were shattered. Today we call this The Holocaust. This is an account of how this happened.

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Do you know how many genocides there have been in our time?

Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

  

Can you look at our world for a moment from God’s perspective?

  

  

Jesus told us that in the last days…

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, and abusive.Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

-Romans 1:22-27

  

Truth Bombs:

• The IDF is not targeting civilians but is doing more than any other group in the history of warfare to ensure the survival of civilians.
• As they target the leaders of Hamas, they are at the same time, feeding the people of Gaza by producing 2 million loaves of bread per day.
• It is delivering clean water to the citizens through its own pipeline.
• It has created six field hospitals and two floating hospitals to assist those who are impacted by the war.
• Israel is evacuating the ill through the Rafah border crossing and has distributed tents, winter equipment, fuel and cooking gas.
• Israel has been accused of starving Gazan Civilians as a method of genocide. The charge now is known to be false.
• Columbia University discovered that 290,000 tons of food has been delivered between October 2023---April 2024 and that ¾ of the agricultural production ability remains intact. “If people are not getting enough food, Hamas theft is the most likely culprit.”

Before we remove a boundary, perhaps we should ask why the boundary was placed there in the first place?

-Malcom Muggeridge

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

-John 10:10

What does God see when he looks over the palace walls of the heavens?

  

Under the Altar.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?’ Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

-Revelation 6:9-11

  

In other words, God sees the last days…

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.

-2 Timothy 3:1-5

  

Which means, here are the things we can expect to see in the coming years.

Jesus answered: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

-Matthew 24: 4-14

  

  

  

Why does God sit idly by while all this happens?

Poles who risked their own lives to save the Jews were indeed the exception. But they could be found throughout Poland, in every town and village.

-Martin Gilbert

A living wall was raised by the Danish people in the course of one night.

-Leni Yahil

  

There are two kingdoms diametrically opposed. Which one are you in?

  

  

On that day when He returns, this will be fulfilled:

‘And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

-Zechariah 12:10-14

  

Is God going to reveal Jesus to the Jews on the Temple Mount?

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.’

-Romans 11:25-27

A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code.

-Romans 2:28-29

   

The promise of Christ’s return is as sure as the promise that the people of Israel would return to the land.

  

  

Where is God?

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated — the world was not worthy of them.

-Hebrews 11:32-38

He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-Jim Elliot

  

What are you giving up?

  

  

  

  

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