Exterminating Christians in the Middle East

This article was in today's Wall Street Journal.

Recently I saw a riveting new play, “My Report to the World: The Story of Jan Karski.” In 1943 Karski, a member of the Polish Catholic underground, was the first eyewitness to the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to reach the U.S. He sought to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter that Judaism was being systematically wiped out by the Nazis. Frankfurter told Karski he couldn’t believe it because the horror was unfathomable.

A similar story is playing out again, as Christians are being wiped out in the Middle East. On his recent trip to Latin America, Pope Francis said, “Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus.” He continued: “In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place.”

Middle Eastern Christians are being exterminated by Islamic State, or ISIS, simply because they are Christians. As Jews were forced to wear the yellow Star of David, Christian homes are marked with the Arabic letter “N” for Nazarene. Iraqi Sister Diana Momeka testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in May that “ISIS’s plan is to evacuate the land of Christians and wipe the earth clean of any evidence that we ever existed.”

There is another grisly similarity: In the 1940s Jewish refugees were turned away by the U.S. and other countries. Karski recalled in a 1995 interview: “The Jews were abandoned by all governments.”

Today’s persecuted Christians also have nowhere to go. The Rev. Emanuel Youkhana, the head of Christian Aid Program Northern Iraq, told the New York Times in July that the West comes up with visas for “a few hundred people. What about a few hundred thousand?”

The Catholic News Agency reported on Aug. 5 that “since October 2014, 906 Muslim refugees from Syria were granted U.S. visas, while only 28 of Syria’s estimated 700,000 displaced Christians were given the same. Even when accounting for population percentages (Christians account for 10% of the religious makeup of Syria), the numbers of visas granted seems widely disproportional.” In response, Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil said at a press conference this month that “our people are asking these questions: how come we apply for the American visa and are denied?”

After 1948, when the Jews were purged from the Arab Middle East, they could at least go to Israel. There is no equivalent for Middle Eastern Christians. Furthermore, the world is no longer forced to rely on a single pair of eyes as in Karski’s day. The forced conversions, the beheadings, the slaughter of Copts on a Mediterranean beach—these horrors are all available on YouTube.

Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, the international director of the nonprofit aid group the Barnabas Fund, told the London Telegraph in July that the situation was evolving into a genocide. “So many British Christians have been in contact with us to tell us that they have a spare room or even a second home in which they want to welcome Syrian and Iraqi Christians,” he said. “Yet our government seems determined to turn its back on some of the most vulnerable people in the world.”

Here’s an illustration of what such organizations can accomplish: The Barnabas Fund’s Operation Safe Havens program has pressed governments to issue visas to persecuted Christians, on condition that the organization will foot their expenses. Poland, Karski’s homeland, is granting visas for an initial several hundred families. Barnabas is joining with a Polish nongovernmental organization, known in English as the Esther Foundation, to help the refugees integrate into society.

Refugees are being connected to local Polish church congregations—from Warsaw and Katowice to Gdańsk and Koszalin. The total cost to rescue one individual is a modest $3,000, including airfare and a year’s basic support.

In June some 60 Polish nongovernmental organizations reminded their government of their people’s historic commitment to solidarity. The leaders wrote in an open letter: “If we are to call Poland ‘the cradle of Solidarity,’ if we declare that we hold freedom and human rights dear, we should commit to providing assistance and support to those who cannot return to their home countries.”

So why can’t the U.S. do something similar? Knowing without doubt the evil and death unleashed on Christians, shouldn’t we let in as many refugees as we can? Americans are renowned for personal generosity toward the afflicted. Private charities, churches and individual citizens should challenge the government to provide visas for Christian refugees whose funding and care private Americans would guarantee.

Before his execution by the Nazis in 1945, the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned against the West’s moral failures toward tyranny, and his words still apply: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,” he said. “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Mr. Reilly is the director of the Westminster Institute in McLean, Va.

Here;  http://www.wsj.com/articles/exterminating-christians-in-the-middle-east-1440112782

I need to re-post the last paragraph just because it's so convicting:

Before his execution by the Nazis in 1945, the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned against the West’s moral failures toward tyranny, and his words still apply: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,” he said. “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Have any of us done anything for our Brothers and Sisters in the Middle East?  Are our churches talking about it?  How many followers of Christ in America even know it is happening?  Are we protesting?  Are we calling our Congressmen to demand action?

It makes me wonder what Jesus would say to His church if he were to come back today;  "Really? You have your computers and SmartPhones on 24 hours per day and you claim to have had NO CLUE that your Brothers and Sisters were being tortured, raped and brutalized?"

"Yeah Jesus....I just ended up getting so depressed when I watched the news that I just decided to turn it off!  Instead I spent all my computer time looking for craft ideas on Pinterest...to make my house cuter!  Why?  Was there something I should have been watching for in the news?  In fact....I am totally surprised that you are even here right now!!....I figured you weren't coming for thousands or millions of years...if ever!!"

Was Massive Explosion in China Actually a U.S. Missile Attack?

I realize that there are a bunch of people out there who believe the U.S. Government planned and carried out the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001.  I don't believe it.  I believe it was carried out by worshipers of Allah who wanted to go to paradise and have endless sex with 72 virgins while drinking heavenly wine all day.

In the same way there are people with a conspiracy theory on basically EVERYTHING!

So check out this next one.

A handful of days ago a MASSIVE explosion rocked the city of Tianjin, China.  It killed over 100 people and many folks got the massive explosion captured on video through their cell phones.

The day before the explosion, China made a MAJOR economic move that rocked the world's established financial condition....they devalued their currency.

Some folks believe that USA unleashed a space missile right into Tianjin as a WARNING to the Chinese government that they better not mess with the current global financial heirarchy....and if they do there will be more hell to pay because China has NO WAY of stopping our top-secret space missile attacks.

China and America Already at War: Tianjin Explosion Carried out by Pentagon Space Weapon in Retaliation for Yuan Currency Devaluation

The Chinese government’s official explanation for the explosion, which has now killed 114 people, is a complete whitewash. China is going to declare regional martial law in the next 18 days, Natural News has learned, in order to exercise total control over the movement of people and information. The government has banned reporters from entering the area and has begun arresting bloggers who promote what the government calls “conspiracy theories” regarding the cause of the massive explosion.

China has blacked out reporting on Tianjin in exactly the same way the U.S. media blacked out reporting on Dr. William Thompson, the CDC whistleblower who admitted the CDC buried evidence linking vaccines to autism. In both China and the United States, when the government doesn’t want the citizens to know something, it censors the story across the entire state-run media, invoking “information totalitarianism.”

Both before and after the massive explosion, the Chinese government has been flying “black helicopters” in formation across Beijing. (Update: Previously, this article stated the helicopters began flying after the explosion, but we have been corrected on this point, as helicopters were witnessed in the sky in the days before the explosion as well.) Chinese dissidents took numerous photos of these helicopters and were able to deliver these exclusive pictures to Natural News:

Chinese dissidents have told Natural News they have reason to believe the attack on Tianjin is a warning shot from the United States, which is terrified that China is on the verge of announcing its own gold-backed currency while declaring a fire sale on U.S. debt holdings.

The actions would collapse the U.S. dollar and destroy the U.S. economy, sending the United States into economic freefall. The “Rod of God” weapon deployment by the U.S. Pentagon, we’re told, was America’s “shot across the bow” to send a powerful warning message to China while disguising the attack as a domestic chemical explosion.

Timeline of events: China devalues currency, then Pentagon strikes in mere hours

Consider the calendar of events in all this:

August 11, 2015: China devalues the Yuan by 1.9%, sending “shockwaves” around the world and setting off a “devastating” impact to the U.S. economy.

August 12, 2015: Tianjin struck by Pentagon’s secret “Rod of God” weapon, a space-based top-secret kinetic weapon that can be dropped from high orbit to strike almost any land-based target. The weapon instantly destroys six city blocks on the edge of the city of Tianjin, sending a message to China that’s eerily similar to the message sent by the United States in the dropping of the world’s first atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. (Yes, the USA is willing to drop weapons of mass destruction on civilian populations. It has already done it twice!)

(For those following the Shemitah, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan also occurred during a Shemitah year, in the month of august, 1945, exactly 70 years ago. This is precisely TEN Shemitah cycles ago, or what might be called a “deca-Shemitah.”)

August 16, 2015: Obama issues stern warning “…about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States,” reports The New York Times. “And it comes at a time of growing tension between Washington and Beijing on a number of issues: from the computer theft of millions of government personnel files that American officials suspect was directed by China, to China’s crackdown on civil liberties, to the devaluation of its currency.”

Here;  http://worldtruth.tv/china-and-america-already-at-war-tianjin-explosion-carried-out-by-pentagon-space-weapon-in-retaliation-for-yuan-currency-devaluation/

Does the USA actually have a "Rod of God" space weapon?

Probably.

Would the Pentagon actually use it on civilians in China...which Obama would have had to order?

Doubtful.

Did the USA vaporize 100,000 Japanese civilians during WWII with a new nuclear weapon they wanted to "try out" to show the world they were in possession of it?

Yes they did vaporize civilians....but the reasons for dropping it are still being debated.

Does China want to collapse the U.S. dollar and try to replace it with the Yuan as the world's reserve currency?

Yes, I believe so.

Does China steal U.S. patents every single day costing the USA $billions in lost revenue?

Yes.

Does China have a whole army of computer hackers that look to hack into our corporate and government computer databases in hopes of stealing top secret information they can use for military and financial gain?

Yes.

Does USA have a whole army of computer hackers that look to STOP the foreign hackers while at the same time hacking into other nations top secret computer databases?

Probably....at least I hope they do.

Does the current GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM have to melt down in order for a NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY to be established so that the Antichrist can one day take over the system and require every participant to get a mark on their arm or forehead to buy or sell anything?

Yes.

Revelation 13
15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

In summation, I don't believe that everything is a conspiracy theory...but I do believe that the secret power of Satan is working behind the scenes A LOT more than most people give him credit for.  In fact I believe that the WHOLE WORLD is under the control of Satan....and will be until the Prince of Peace returns to bring justice or order back to this fallen, miserable planet.

1 John 5
19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

SO I will leave it up to you to try and discern whether the explosion in China was hazardous materials blowing up (as everyone claims) or a US space missile attack from a secret weapon called the ROD OF GOD.

Hat tip to Glen S.

Has China Declared Economic War on USA?

Many of you know that China devalued it's currency last week.  Many of you also know that we have pointed out for years now that world history shows us that currency wars lead to trade wars and trade wars lead to shooting wars.

Why would China devalue its currency?  Because they want to make all their export items cheaper relative to the other currencies of the nations who are buying all their crap!

Remember the Netflix documentary I recommended to you last year called DEATH BY CHINA?  If you never watched it, you may want to now....because 90% of all the crap in Walmart that we consume by the truckload every week is MADE IN CHINA.

Now check out what they were talking about on the Glenn Beck show and see if it rings a bell in you someplace.

Glenn Beck said Wednesday that the recent devaluation of China’s currency should “send a chill down your spine” and could mean China has begun “all-out economic warfare” against the west.

Beck brought on his chief researcher Jason Buttrill, who said “no one has the stomach to admit the truth” about what China has done.

“They’ve launched all-out economic warfare,” Buttrill said. “China devalued their currency, kicking off the biggest fall in over two decades. Why would a country do that to themselves? Sounds like a mistake, right? But China makes most of their money off exports, so they need a lower currency value in order to keep pumping out those cheap, plastic, ‘Made in China’ toys our kids have.”

Buttrill said the move could create a “tsunami of deflation” in western economies, leading to skyrocketing unemployment.

“But the Chinese aren’t stupid. Why are they triggering an economic war if it could crush the global economy?” he continued. “We need to look at this in context of what their overall goal is. They want to get away from that export driven economy, reduce the number of ‘Made in China’ junk shipped around the globe, and transform into a consumer-based economy [like] we have.”

Buttrill said the Chinese are betting the move will give them a short-term boost strong enough to “propel them all the way through this massive economic transformation.”

“Here’s the second part, and this is crucial,” he concluded. “China is trying to destroy the dollar. They want to be the world reserve currency, and if severe deflation kicks off a depression in the western world, the opportunity will be there for this to actually happen. … We’re seeing the beginnings of a dangerous, non-conventional war.”

Here;  http://www.theeblaze.com/stories/2015/08/19/china-did-something-last-week-that-glenn-beck-says-should-send-a-chill-down-your-spine/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%208-20-15%20FINAL&utm_term=Firewir

What???  Let me re-post that last part again:
“China is trying to destroy the dollar. They want to be the world reserve currency, and if severe deflation kicks off a depression in the western world, the opportunity will be there for this to actually happen."

"But Dennis, China could never afford to destroy the dollar and put us in a depression!  If they put us into a depression then we won't be able to buy all their crap and THEY will go into a depression too!!...and the leaders of China would never do that because they care a great deal for all of their people!  They are kind and compassionate communists who have a long history of social welfare and caring for all 1 billion of their citizens reasonably and equitably."  (Yes this is sarcastic)

Over the last 7-8 years I have heard many peers of mine in the financial business tell me that USA has China by the nuts because if we ever stop buying their stuff then China will go into serious hurt mode.

My response has been to ask them WHO they believe could weather a prolonged, ugly depression better?.....the Chinese people, who just a few years ago were living in boxes and butchering their own back-yard chickens to eat for dinner....OR....the folks in the USA who don't even know what a chicken looks like and spend trillions of hours napping in front of their TV's watching The Bachelor as they plan their coffee date at Starbucks paid for with their EBT card?

The Chinese leaders may VERY WELL understand that they will emerge on top of the heap after the world goes through a grueling 10-15 year deep depression.  Maybe they have started the process and we are all just waiting to find out after the fact?

The guys on Glenn Beck seem to think so anyway.....

Adultery Website Debacle

What's a married man or woman supposed to do who wants to have sex outside of their marriage?

Well, in this high-tech, social media driven world in which we live...there's an app for that!

It's called Ashley Madison and it's been a great place for horny married people who are born with the desire to have sex with more than just their spouse....so they signed up by the millions!  Who's ever gonna know...right?!  What happens on Ashley Madison STAYS on Ashley Madison!!

Uh-oh.....the site got hacked and millions of names and addresses were just released by the hackers.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet.

Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about Internet security and data protection.

The hacker attack has been a big blow to Toronto-based assignation website firm Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison and has indefinitely postponed the adultery site's IPO plans. But many professions stand to benefit from the unfolding saga, from lawyers to therapists to cyber security firms.

Prominent divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said the release is the best thing to happen to his profession since the seventh Commandment forbade adultery in the Bible.

"I've never had anything like this before," he said.

The data dump began to make good on the hackers' threat last month to leak nude photos, sexual fantasies, real names and credit card information for as many as 37 million customers worldwide of Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair."

The public embarrassment and emotional toll is likely to be enormous on unsuspecting people whose extra-marital affairs may have been exposed on the web or even whose emails were used without their knowledge to sign up for the site.

"These poor people will be dealing with it in such a public way. It will be absolutely devastating," said Michele Weiner Davis, marriage therapist in Colorado and author of Divorce Busting.

For the partners or spouses, the initial shock will likely turn to anger and then a deep feeling of hurt and betrayal, she said.

"It's no picnic for the unfaithful partner either."

Ashley Madison members would likely be best served by coming clean instead of waiting to see if their indiscretion is discovered, said Dr B. Janet Hibbs, a psychologist and couples therapist in Philadelphia.

"Fall on your sword if you want to save your relationship," she said. "Be prepared for them to ask a lot of questions, to not be defensive, to be compassionate."

The data release could have severe consequences for U.S. service members if found to be real. Several tech websites reported that more than 15,000 email addresses were government and military ones.

Adultery, under certain criteria including the misuse of government time and resources, is a crime in the U.S. armed forces and can lead to dishonorable discharge or imprisonment.

Here;  https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/hackers-dump-data-cheating-website-ashley-madison-online-012742489--sector.html

Of course, in our unending quest to bring you articles with the words NEVER and EVER, we feel compelled to highlight a sentence from the above article;
"Prominent divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said the release is the best thing to happen to his profession since the seventh Commandment forbade adultery in the Bible.

"I've never had anything like this before," he said."

Yes friends, God detests adultery.  The fact that this adultery website is made to facilitate adultery and has 37,000,000 members is certainly a SIGN OF THE TIMES.

Animated Video Shows Islamic Invasion of Jerusalem

One day in the future, an Islamic horde of soldiers is going to gather for a great battle in hopes of taking back Jerusalem and destroying Israel.  The Bible tells me so.

Of course they won't be successful because the Bible promises that Israel will never be totally destroyed after she is reformed as a nation....which she was in 1948.

Watch this hair-raising animated video made by Muslims which shows the horde gathered outside Jerusalem as they lock and load their weapons to make the final assault.

Here:  https://youtu.be/OWfmvUxzW_I

Here is what Now The End Begins blog-site had to say about the video;

One dons the IRGC insignia on his left arm, another the emblem of the Iran-backed Iraqi Shia Badr Organization. Yet a third dons a headband bearing the Lebanese Hezbollah logo, and a fourth is seen clad in Hamas’ characteristic balaclava and the Qassam Brigades green headband. Each brandishes a weapon, a helmet and a keffiyeh. They are shown poised on a hill overlooking the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, prepared for battle.

The clip then transitions to a black screen with Persian script that says “Israel must be obliterated,” or literally, “erased from the annals of history,” a command first issued by Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini and famously repeated by former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as leaders of Iran’s proxies such as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The video continues, “and the youth will definitely see that day when it comes.” The soldiers are then seen marching to battle towards Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Old City. Their depiction isn’t exactly as the Bible has foretold it, but it’s fairly close. The one big missing player is Turkey.

We here at NTEB have been telling you for years now about the coming invasion of Jerusalem as prophesied in the Bible. The Bible says it will happen in the days after the Rapture of the Church, during the time of Jacob’s trouble. Listen to what the Spirit has to say about it:

“For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:3-7 (KJV)

The day is coming when Israel will indeed be surrounded by Russia, Iran, Turkey, Germany and all the others mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and 39. The powers of darkness will indeed rise and fulfill prophecy. Jews will be driven out of the Israel and they will flee to the Red Rock City of Selah, Petra.

BUT THE VICTORY WILL COME WHEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST RETURNS ON HORSEBACK WITH HIS ARMY, THE CHURCH TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE THE JEWS. REVELATION 19 DESCRIBES IT THIS WAY:

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” Revelation 19:11-16 (KJV)

Here;  http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=34884

There can be no doubt that the Muslim horde is being gathered.  The Mullahs in Iran are salivating with the prospect that Team Obama is going to sign a nuke deal with them that will release $150,000,000,000 of frozen assets that they will be able to use for the glory of their god, Allah.  They dream about taking back Jerusalem...so much so that they make animated, glorious cartoons about the topic.

Thank you Jesus that you have told us how the story really ends and that we can take eternal comfort in your words that NONE of us will EVER be snatched from your hand.

Russia and Iran Sign Military Deal

Ezekiel told us in Chapters 38 and 39 about a military coalition that would include Russia and Iran. This coalition has NEVER happened since the prophet told us about it 2700 years ago....but today we read a headline that should give us all pause.

Iranian official: Tehran to sign deal with Russia for advanced S-300 missile system next week

Iran and Russia will sign a deal that will see Moscow send Tehran the S-300 air-defense missile system by next week, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had been ready to deliver the S-300 to Iran already in 2010, but had previously agreed to ban the sale under pressure from the US. Israel has also pushed Moscow not to send the S-300 to Iran.

The deal has now been updated and will be finalized soon, the Iranian Students' News Agency quoted Dehghan as saying.

Dehghan said that as part of the new deal, Iran would be receiving an upgraded version of the S-300 system.

"We will go to Russia next week to sign the deal and there is no barrier hindering the agreement,” ISNA quoted him as saying.

He added that the weapons system would be delivered to Iran shortly after the signing of the agreement. 

The deal comes after Russia announced that it was lifting its five-year ban on the sale of the S-300 to Iran in April, prior to the July signing of the comprehensive nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran. Putin said at the time that lifting the ban could encourage Iran to finalize the nuclear deal. He reassured Israel that the S-300 does not endanger the Jewish state.

The S-300 is "“one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world," Brig.-Gen. (res.) Asaf Agmon, a former senior Israel Air Force officer told The Jerusalem Post in April.

The S-300 would make a potential strike against Iran's nuclear facilities much more difficult. "This system will be a challenge for an air force to overcome. Its arrival is a significant change in our region,” Agmon said.

“Once the S-300 is stationed in Iran, the chances of it getting to Syria and Lebanon rise,” he warned.

Here;  http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Iranian-official-Tehran-to-sign-deal-with-Russia-for-advanced-S-300-missile-system-next-week-412449

Will the deal get signed?  Will it get installed?  Will Turkey, Libya and some other North African Muslim nations also join forces with Russia?

One day they will....because the Bible tells me so.

For now, just keep your Bible open on one knee and your newspaper open on the other.

Israel will continue to get squeezed and threatened....but before the spoken of coalition gathers to march against Israel ONE MAJOR PROPHETIC EVENT has to happen first....Jesus has to come for His bride with the sound of a loud trumpet and call us all up into the clouds!

Amen!  Even so...come Lord Jesus!

Using Money as Napkins

Just imagine if you had been saving money since you got out of college and now that you were 60 years old you had managed to squirrel away a few million dollars?  You were getting ready to kiss your boss goodbye and planned on moving to Florida to spend the rest of your days playing golf, eating at Luby's and laying at the beach!  Ahhhh.....paradise!  : (

Now further imagine that a few months before your planned move to Florida, that your own government had so screwed up the value of your currency that your few million dollars you had worked SO HARD to save....now barely bought enough groceries to last you a week.

Paradise lost!!!

"But Dennis, that could NEVER happen in America!  Our dollar is the most in-demand currency in the entire world!  And for sure it will ALWAYS BE that way!  Our future is certain....because we are Americans!"

Well.....it's happening in Venezuela as we speak.

An image is going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela's economy has become.

A Reddit user uploaded a picture on Monday of a man using a 2 bolivar note to hold an empanada.

According to Venezuela's official bolivar-dollar exchange rate, the man using his money as a napkin is wasting about $0.31 (£0.20).

But on the black market, the reality is completely different. You can get 676.88 bolivars to the dollar, according to dolartoday.com. That means holding food with a 2 bolivar note costs the holder less than a third of one US cent.

This time last year, the bolivar was far more valuable, and even as recently as May this year, you could still get hold of a dollar for less than 300 bolivars. Today, you need more than twice that.

The country has a spiralling inflation rate. Official inflation is high enough, at 68.5%, but like the official exchange rate, that paints a much rosier picture than reality. Professor Steve Hanke, who runs the "Troubled Currencies Project," a joint program between the Cato Institute and Johns Hopkins University, says in reality inflation is more like 808%.

The country is a major oil exporter, and the plunge in prices is a huge part of what's causing the crisis — as a result, the country is pegged as having the riskiest debt in the world, with the highest likelihood of a future default. Food is increasingly hard to get hold of, shop shelves are often empty, and the country's social order is deteriorating.

Here;  http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuelas-currency-is-now-so-worthless-that-people-are-using-it-as-napkins-2015-8

Hmmmmm......what the heck happened to Venezuela?  I know they had a Marxist leader (Hugo Chavez) who was friends with Jew-hater President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a few years ago, but he's dead now.  Is it possible this nation may have brought wrath on itself for cursing the Jews?

If you want the answer, just Google "Venezuela Anti-Semitism" and see what comes up!

Also notice the last sentence of the above article that says, "the country's social order is deteriorating."

Yep!  Just imagine what would happen in America if $100,000 dollars wasn't capable of buying groceries for a week?  You think there would be some unrest?  Do you think the 48 million folks on Food Stamps would have their credits increased enough by the Government to keep them with enough money to buy the free food they have come to expect?  Where would the U.S. government come up with the money necessary to increase the food stamp credits?

"Dennis, you are stupid!  The government would just print enough money to pay for it all!"

Really?  Because they day they do that the value of the dollar will fall in half again....just like is happening in Venezuela.

Jewish Site Wonders if Nephilim Will Return to Usher in Messianic Age

Jesus told us, "As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man."  In the days of Noah we can read in Genesis 6 that the Nephilim were on the earth.  The Nephilim were the hybrid beings of fallen angels co-mingling with human women.

Of course the Jews, as a group, have rejected Christ as their savior so are still looking for the Messiah to come to earth and usher in the Messianic age.

The prophecies in the Bible tell us that these Jews will accept the Antichrist as their Messiah and will trust him to sign a 7 year peace agreement with their Arab neighbors and other enemies like Russia and Persia.

What's super interesting about this chatter is that Jews are wondering if the Nephilim are going to return to earth before THEIR MESSIAH comes!

No Fairy Tale: Will Giants Return to Usher in the Messianic Era?

“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.” (Genesis 6:1-4)

Giants are generally thought to be found in fairy tales and fables, but surprisingly, they also play an important role in the Bible. While everyone knows the story of David and Goliath, giants have a significant role much earlier in the timeline of the world and may even play a role in the Messianic process.

Characters referred to as Nephilim, literally “the fallen”, are described in the sixth chapter of Genesis, before the flood. In the pre-flood era of Noah, the Bible says that the “Sons of Elohim” cohabited with the daughters of men, and God immediately decided to limit man’s lifespan to one-hundred and twenty years. The offspring of these unions were called Nephillim.

Elohim is one of the names of God used in the Torah, usually referring to His aspect expressed through nature and judgment. This would make the term, the “Sons of God”, a theologically problematic term for most everyone. Elohim is also used to mean a human judge as well, and some sources understand that to be its meaning here.

The Rashbi, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, is a sage from the 2nd century during the Roman persecution who appears extensively in the Talmud and is the originator of the Zohar, the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. He warns against understanding the use of  Bnei Elohim in this verse to mean “the Sons of God”, and most sources explain it to mean angels.

Classical interpretation of the Bible relies heavily on the Midrash, a tradition of stories and fables that help explain the basic text. A remarkable Midrash appears in several sources explaining the appearance of the Nephilim, the fallen ones, as being a product of angels.

The Midrash relates how, before the flood, mankind was sinning greatly and God began to regret creating man. Three angels – Shamchazai, Uza, and Uzziel – came to God and said they could replace the sinning men, repopulating the world with perfect angels. God warns them that they will sin even more, however they persist in their claim. God relents, and when the angels descend into the world and see the daughters of men, they sin, and their descendants are the Nephilim, described as giants, that are mentioned again later in the Bible.

There are several important points in this story. Prominent Rabbinic sources describe the angels’ jealousy of man’s role in serving God, inevitably illustrating how man has the ability to transcend the angels by overcoming the difficulties and temptations unique to creatures of flesh and blood.

Another source in the Babylonian Talmud relates that Sihon and Og, two kings mentioned later in the Bible, were descendants of the angel, Shamchazzi. The Midrash states that Og was alive in the time of Noah but escaped the flood by clinging to the side of the Ark. In Genesis 14:13, a “fugitive” (Palit) comes to tell Abram about Lot’s capture. Og was named in Deuteronomy 3:11 as the only remaining man from the Rephaim, a biblical race of giants, and his bed was described as being enormous and made entirely of iron .

The Nephilim are mentioned again in Numbers 13:33. The 12 Spies were sent into the Land of Israel and reported, “There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of the Giant of the Nephilim, and we were in our eyes like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.” Anak, translated as “enormous”, was the archetypal giant and father of the race of men that lived in Hebron.

The Midrashic sources explain that Anak was Og, one of the descendants of the Nephilim, and the fugitive from the flood. Another Midrash tells how Og attacked the Jews in the desert and Moses killed him.

There is a connection between the reappearance of these giants and the coming of the Messiah. In the Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a, there is a discussion between Rav Nachman and Rav Yitzchak.

Rav Yitzchak asks, “Do you know when Bar Naphli (the sons of the fallen) will come?” Rav Yitzchak asks, “Who are the Bar Naphli?” Rav Nachman answered, “It is Messiah”.

Rav Nachman brings down a verse from Amos 9:11, “On that day will I raise up the fallen tabernacle (Sukkah) of David and I will build it as in the days of old.” The Talmud goes on to describe the difficult times preceding the Messiah. This section of the Talmud also explains that the Messiah will come the year after a Sabbatical cycle is completed, as was explained in a Breaking Israel News article.

“Bar Naphli” in the Talmud clearly refers to specific people who both Rav Yitzchak and Rav Nachman have heard of, and who Rav Nachman connects with the coming of the Messiah. As noted previously, the Hebrew verb “Naphal” translates as “fall” but here, in the Talmud, the word is “Naphil’ in Aramaic. In the language of the Talmud, Naphli means “‘giant”.

By the discussion in the Talmud, it seems clear that these Bar Naphli, giants, will return in time to usher in the Messiah.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45098/no-fairy-tale-giants-return-messianic-era-jewish-world/#22UFGzWYgSQvMo7P.99

The Bible speaks of a time when fallen angels came down from heaven and messed with human women and men.  Today's news stories are filled with stories about how "aliens" are coming down from the skies and messing with human women, men and animals.  May Satan be readying his final deceptive plan because he can read the papers and see the turmoil in Jerusalem so he knows his time is close?

Be glad if you have trusted in Jesus for your salvation so that you will escape the deception and delusion that will take over the world during these final 7 years that will begin when Antichrist signs a 7 year peace agreement for Israel.

If you are reading this and HAVEN'T trusted Jesus as the ONLY WAY to be eternally saved, please trust Him now and ask Him to come into your life and make all things new.  If you think you are going to wait until you see the Antichrist and THEN turn to Jesus....it will be too late to escape the deception and misery that has fallen.  Jesus will have already been here to snatch His bride (all of his followers) away from Satan like a thief in the night.

"I am the way, the truth and the life.  No man comes to the Father except through me." --Jesus

Iran Laughs at U.S. Military Threats

President Roosevelt once said, "Speak softly but carry a big stick," when talking about foreign relations.  His intent was clear in these words....tell your friends and enemies exactly what you intend to do and exactly what you expect from them without using threats, bluster and hyperbole.  But be prepared to pull out the big stick immediately and use it on anyone who breaks your expectations.

Team Obama has done much to make our friends and enemies doubt what we are saying and even further doubt that we will pull out a big stick on anyone anymore.

Iranian Military Official: 'We Laugh' When US Threatens To Attack

The West's frequent use of military threats and citing of their ability to attack Iran at will has become a joke among Iranian commanders in the military, according to a high ranking military official in the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Asoudi alluded to the West's hesitancy to use military force and mocked its resolve while speaking to troops in the North. 

"We should thank Obama for refreshing us by referring to his 'options on the table', including the military one; we just relax and laugh at such ridiculous words," Asoudi said.

Other top commanders have also mocked such rhetoric coming from western officials, especially President Barack Obama's use of the common refrain of "all options on the table" while negotiations between world powers and Iran were being discussed.

In May, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's top commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, dismissed US officials' frequent military threats against Iran as ridiculous remarks, according to Fars.

"Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran's pride and might has made the world's biggest materialistic and military powers kneel down before the Islamic Republic's might," Jafari said.

"The military option that the westerners speak of constantly is ridiculous and they know that if the military option could have produced any result, they would have already used it many times, and today they have shifted their focus to other types of threats," he added.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/August14/145.html#1theo6cM4E31HIMU.99

While the world continues to taunt our military, our military is concerned about much larger things....like making sure that transgender people don't get harassed in the shower, that Muslims in the army don't feel bad  and that Christian Chaplains get fired for repeating Christ's claims that He is the only way to salvation.

Friends, when nations turn against God and fall out of His favor, their mighty military can be defeated by much smaller forces.  The Bible is full of examples.

"But Dennis, America is the greatest country that has ever existed and has the strongest military in the world!  Nothing will ever happen to change that!  We will always be king of the hill and the greatest super-power to ever rule the world."

Hmmmm.....I'm pretty sure the Romans said that same thing at one point.  So did the Greeks, so did the Spaniards and so did the English....and now they are all bankrupt and can't afford to even defend their own borders.