Obama--Convert to Islam

Below is an article that reports that muslims around the world are celebrating Obama's coming presidency and they are hopeful that he will recognize just what a peaceful religion Islam is.

Furthermore, one Egyptian cleric has invited Obama to surrender to Islam and recognize Allah as the one true god...on Egyptian state funded TV.

"You, Obama, are among those who have pledged before Allah – Allah who created you, sustained you, and brought you to this position – to be a Muslim who believes that Allah is the one God, especially since you have some kind of roots in Islam," declared Egyptian cleric Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal, speaking last week on the state-funded Al Nas religious television network.

"Convert to Islam, and you will be saved. All glory and honor lie in following Allah and his messenger, Muhammad. Know that the true religion is the religion of Islam, and all other religions are fabricated religions, which are null and void – religions that were abrogated by the Shariah of Muhammad," Ashbal said.

Read article here; http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85748

I would like to ask the cleric...if Obama won't surrender to Islam and the rest of us won't either...will you still be a religion of peace and be happy to share the earth with us? Or will you declare yet another holy war using your religion of peace?

IDF to Escalate Gaza Operation

Israel dropped leaflets in Gaza and warned people to stay away from Hamas members and to brace themselves for more military action. Also they reminded Gazans that this war was not against them but against Hamas.

They sure appear to be doing their best to fight to minimize civilian casualties. But Hamas seems to want an increase in civilian casualties as it helps to feed their propaganda war of carrying dead children around for all the media cameras. If they were concerned about civilians they would launch their missiles from warehouses and not schoolyards.

The UN security council has called for a ceasefire but Israel and Hamas have chosen to ignore those calls. According to the article below, Hamas was angry that it wasn't consulted by the UN in the diplomatic efforts. Hamas must not only be violent....they must be really stupid as they must know the entire world has labeled them as terrorists.

Read here; http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95KABN00

Talking to Terrorists

As Israel and Hamas continue to fight, the world is waiting for Obama to speak up on the issue. As for now he is remaining quiet. The article below is saying the Obama is preparing to open channels with Hamas and abandon the Bush policy of not talking to terrorists.

Read it here; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/barack-obama-gaza-hamas

If this is true, it could start a chain of events that, prophetically, are not good for the U.S.

"I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you."

Keep praying for Obama that he may see the middle east crisis through the third lense of scripture.

UN School Bombing

We all knew the MSM (Main stream media) would be breathless to report that Israel had attacked a United Nations run school and jump right onto the photos of dozens of frenzied arabs carrying dead school kids. How terribly sad for some poor kids to be blown to bits by shells.

But!!! That's not the rest of the story! It appears that palestinian witnesses are saying they confirm Israel's story that a rocket team was launching from the school. Furthermore, the school may have been booby trapped by Hamas so that even if Israel used a tiny missile to kill the squad on the rooftop...Hamas then triggered a huge explosion to make sure the school came down and Israel could be blamed...just in time to make the 5:30 evening news.

Could Hamas be so cruel that they would kill their own people solely for propaganda?? Satan knows no bounds when it comes to the war against the Jews.

Read JP article here; http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167272256&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Another question...when Hamas reports that children have been killed...what if a 14 yr old boy is firing rockets at Israel from a rooftop while in his blue jeans and Yankees T-shirt? Is he a civlian or is he a Hamas militant? Should the Israeli gunships be able to determine his age and status while in a battle? How would the UN reporter know?

Armageddon Week

In case you are missing it, the History Channel is having "Armageddon Week" where they explain lots of ways and theories about how the earth will end. I actually watched it on Monday night as Joel Rosenberg, Jerry Jenkins and Tim Lahaye were featured. It was surprisingly well done in that they didn't paint the evangelicals as idiots and they backed up the Seven Bowl Judgements of Revelation with scientific possiblities.

Not to be outdone, Fox News has an article talking about the 5 possiblities of how the world will end. In it you are asked to vote on which one you think is the most likely.

Read it here; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477084,00.html

I'm telling you, the world is getting an idea that there is a shaking going on. They are looking for answers and YOU have those answers. The field is ripe and the harvest is at hand...so get out there and talk!! The Spirit promises He will give you the words and bless your testimony. "If God be for us, who can be against us?"

Global Cooling!

This article is pretty funny when you remember that the bible tells us, "I will confuse your wise men and frustrate your intelligent men." I'm sure the scientists are frustrated. They've spent the last 10 years saying the earth is getting warmer because of man-made CO2 omissions...only to find out the earth has actually cooled in the last 8 yrs. $300,000,000 spent to warn the world of global warming but once they had a really cold winter they realized they better change the message to "Climate change"...that way ANYTHING that happens in the atmosphere can fall under that umbrella and be used to sound the alarm and gather research money.

Oh...and by the way...if you don't accept the Climate Change "problem" as fact...then you are an idiot. (at least that's what my liberal friends tell me)

"We put up satellites in the atmosphere to measure the lower troposphere. We did this 30 years ago because of the global cooling panic. So we're measuring where we would find the cooling or warming signal, which is in the lower troposphere," he explains. "And we don't see either; there has been a slight cooling in the last few years. The warming of two decades stopped in 1998."

Read the full article here; http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=375526

Russian Prof. Predicts U.S. Collapse

This article from the Wall Street Journal is interesting for a variety of reasons, but the first paragraphs caught my attention because the Professor believes we will fall apart in 2010 because of economic and moral collapse and it will lead to a civil war that will split the nation in 4-5 parts.

Read article here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html

From a biblical prospective, those of us who believe in the pre-trib rapture of The Church, know that when the rapture happens, the U.S. WILL collapse. There are simply too many Christians providing too many services for the infrastructure to hold. And what will be left will be easy pickings for the remaining powers on earth who will be unaffected by the rapture due to tiny populations of True Believers.

So is it possible that some people within Magog (Russia) are starting to get tipped off of what the post rapture world is going to look like? Who knows??? It is just one more bizarre headline that seems to make the news on a daily basis.

When the Money Goes---Kill Yourself.

As the world continues to be shaken, the financial empires that were indestructible a few short years ago, continue to collapse. What a tradgedy to find out where people's worth and happiness were really stored.

According to the article below, Mr. Merckle was the 94th richest man in the world. Wow!!...with all that money it would be impossible to not be happy...right? But it turns out that he stepped in front of a train yesterday and now he has entered into a stage of consciousness. I pray he had a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus.

Read article here; http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5054JI20090106

As I read this article, I was reminded of the parable that Jesus told about the guy who had so much wealth, he started building more barns to hold it all. Once he got that done, he figured he could sit back, be happy and enjoy all that money could bring. But Jesus said, "You fool!" and reminds us all that this could be our last day on earth...in which case all the barns of wealth mean absoultely nothing.

Hamas Charter

The international community seems to be gaining momentum on calling for a cease fire so Israel and Hamas can work out a diplomatic solution. There are a few problems with this idea though. First off, even the Europeans recognize that Hamas is a terrorist group, and Europe's charter says they are not supposed to engage in political dialogue with terrorists...so how can they negotiate with Hamas?

Secondly, there is virtually no chance that any peace agreement will work. If Hamas actually agrees to sit and work out an agreement with Israel, they will have disobeyed their very reason for existence...and will cease to have any credibility left even with it's most violent supporters.

Here are some of the main points from Hamas' charter;

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
"After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."

So there you have it....there is no solution except through Jihad. So if Hamas wants Jihad and they wish to die fighting Israel, it would appear that Israel is giving them exactly what they hope for.

"Very Unusual"

The earthquakes continue happening in various places as a large one measuring 7.6 struck in Papau New Guinea yesterday. Also making the headlines is the rattling that is happening at Yellowstone Park. This quote caught my attention;

Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it's very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, says Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah.
"They're certainly not normal," Smith said. "We haven't had earthquakes in this energy or extent in many years."

Read the article here; http://news.aol.com/article/yellowstone-earthquakes-raise-fears/292261?icid=100214839x1216363415x1201056757

Escape from Hamas

Fox TV is airing a show that involves an interview of an ex-Hamas member. The man is actually more than that, as his father was one of the founding members of Hamas. While in an Israeli prison, Christ found him and he now understands the lies of Islam and the hatred that radical Islam is fomenting. After reading the quote below you have to know that Islam (Satan) wants this guy dead.

"Islam is not the word of God," said Yousef. "If you want to be offended it's your problem. But you know something? Go study. Think for a second that I might be right. So wake up, look at your path, see where you're going. Are you really going to heaven with 72 virgins after you kill yourself and kill another 20 people?"

Read the article here and check out the listing times for when you can watch it for yourselves; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html

Power Behind the Horde

In David Dolan's comments on my previous posting, he surmised that Iran is the power behind Hamas' attempt to stand against Israel. Also they are the power behind Hezbollah and Syria. So where does this power come from? We know it is from satan because 1 John tells us to "test the spirits" and any spirit that doesn't acknowledge Jesus Christ as God in flesh is a spirit of the anti-christ. Radical Islam is the fruit being born by satan's lies that were started by Muhammad 1400 years ago.

Lest you have any doubt, we will post a video that ran on Iranian TV a few days ago, that shows what satan is filling Iranian children's heads with. In modern day, what kind of society teaches preschoolers about killing, death and jihad??...only one born by Satan.

Watch clip here; http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=1194419829128&videoId=1230456540180

Hat tip to Julie E.

Is this the Start of Something Bigger?

As we watch Israel go back into Gaza, we also watch the Muslim world start to boil. Let's remember that being ruled over by Jews is a HUGE conflict in the muslim religion since allah promised the opposite. For muslims to see Palestinian-Arabs being decimated by Jews is way more than they can bear.

Let's remember though that last night a Sunni women in Bagdad blew herself up and killed dozens of Shiite muslims. That isn't met with the same outrage...in fact I don't see any of the world boiling about that incident. Where are the protestors in North Minneapolis and around the world to stop the muslim violence? There aren't any. But as soon as Jews kill a few Arabs in self defense, after three years of provocation....the world has a cow.

So is this the start of something bigger? Could this expand into a regional war? Let's remember that Hezbollah is right on Israel's border to the north and have reportedly re-armed to four times their missile strength of the 2006 war with Israel. Also remember that Iran is still cooking nuclear bombs and threatening Israel's permanent destruction, and Syria is said to have some very large missiles posted just beyond the Golan heights pointed straight at Israel. If the satanic horde decides to make a run at Israel...we could be on the cusp of some major prophesies being fulfilled.

David Dolan is a best selling author and has lived in Jerusalem for decades. In an email recieved today, he asked the same questions;

"As the conflict enters a new phase and its second week, I am being asked by friends and acquaintances where I think the fighting is heading. I can only assume that unless Hamas leaders have entirely lost their minds (and they ARE sincerely dedicated to their Islamic-conviction that a Jewish state on land once ruled exclusively by Muslims is a hideous contradiction of their faith) then they had some important strategic reason for firing around 200 rockets into Israeli civilian centers in the days after they ended the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Israel on December 19. After all, they must have understood that Israeli government leaders, facing new national elections in February, would have little choice but to respond to such unprovoked attacks on their cities and towns in a significant military fashion."

"This begs the question—who might be pushing Hamas to force Israel into a major ground conflict that the radical group says will prove to be a “graveyard” for Israeli soldiers, and could easily spiral into a larger regional conflict? I can only point to Iran, which although a Shiite, non-Arab Middle East country, has become the main external backer of Hamas, along with its surrogate Lebanese Hizbullah militia force, also backed by Iran’s main Arab ally, Syria."

"Along with some other analysts, I strongly suspect that Iran is attempting to get the Israeli military preoccupied and bloodied with a major conflict involving Hamas and possibly Hizbullah, if not Syria, in order to deflect a very possible Israeli Air Force operation against their internationally condemned nuclear program sometime later this year. If so, we could be witnessing the opening stages of the first major Israeli-Muslim wintertime war."

Please continue to pray for all the moderate arabs who are caught in the crossfire, pray for Israel as they fight on the frontlines of the satanic-horde, pray for the peace of Jerusalem and pray for the soon return of our King.