There Will Be Pestilence

As the Great Tribulation gets closer, headlines like this shouldn’t surprise us.

‘DISEASE X’ FEARS 

Terrifying new strain of bird flu that kills over a THIRD of those who contract it discovered in China amid fears of new global pandemic

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2790957/terrifying-new-strain-of-bird-flu-that-kills-nearly-half-of-those-who-contract-it-discovered-in-china-amid-fears-of-new-global-pandemic/

Tensions Between US and Turkey "Soar"

We shouldn't be surprised that Turkey is in the headlines more often because Ezekiel 38 has yet to be fulfilled.  Turkey will be in this coalition that seeks to destroy Israel and ends up getting pounded by God Almighty Himself.

In the last few years, Turkey's leaders have been taking them away from Europe and they have been going back and embracing their Islamic heritage and even yearning for the bygone days when the Muslim Ottoman Empire could rule again.

It ain't going to happen.

Today we read that Turkey and USA have some tension building.

AS TENSIONS between Turkey and the US soar, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan released a strong statement on Tuesday in which he claimed Turkey will put to use the S-400 surface-to-air missile systems once they are delivered from Russia, adding its main objective was to reduce Ankara’s dependency on US arms supplies.

Mr Erdogan’s remarks come after months of contention between Turkey and Nato allies, in particular the US, who see the purchase of a Russian-built missile system as a threat to NATO countries’ defence interoperability.

The Turkish leader said: “We will not just buy the S-400s and place them in a storehouse.

“We will use them if need be.”

He added: “This is a defence system.

“What are we going to do with it if not use this defence system?”

Regarding Turkey’s objective to reduce its dependency on US military supplies, President Erdogan said:“Are we going to depend on the US again?”

“When we have been demanding from them for years, the answer that has been given to us is: The Congress is not allowing.”

“We are tired of this,” he noted.

“In the meantime, Russia has responded to the Turkish request for the S-400 with a pretty alluring offer.

“They said they would even get into a joint production. And with respect to loans, they have offered us pretty good loan terms.”

The US Congress has currently taken up the S-400 case and the US Senate is readying to vote next week on a bill that calls for sanctions for the Russian air missile purchase.

The bill also claims the sale and transfer of the new generation F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, which are expected to arrive in Turkey on June 21, is blocked until congressional committees prepare a plan on removing the country from the F-35 co-production programme.

In reaction to the US move, Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hami Aksoy claimed the bill was “against the spirit of our alliance with the US” and that Ankara would respond if Washington suspended delivery of the fighter jets.

Here;  https://www.jewsnews.co.il/2018/06/14/ww3-red-alert-turkey-warns-missile-system-from-russia-will-be-used-by-their-military-as-turkish-tensions-with-donald-trump-and-nato-soar.html

Of course we also know that Russia is going to be a huge player in the Ezekiel 38 prophecy.  So, again, no surprise that Turkey is going to fall more into bed with Russia while they fall out of bed with Europe, Israel and USA.

Two Men Win Girl's State Track Meet in Connecticut

What kind of delusional world are we living in where two men can say, "We feel like women" and then be encouraged and allowed to compete and win in the Girl's State Track meet?

The leftists have opened the door wide open for women's sports to be utterly destroyed.

Notice that TWO MEN took 1st and 2nd in the 100 yard dash at the women's meet.

Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood dominated the competition at Connecticut’s girls track and field state championships earlier this week. Miller took 1st place in both the 100 and 200 meter dash, while Yearwood finished second in the 100. According to News 8 in Hartford, CT, both Miller and Yearwood are transgender which has some people saying that the pair had an unfair advantage.

According to News 8, petitions have been started by some parents and student-athletes to try and change the policy that allows athletes in high schools to compete for the gender specific sport they identify with. But, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference says in order for that to happen, state law would also need to change. The station spoke to several people who were largely in favor of allowing Miller and Yearwood to compete against the girls.

“You have some people who believe men are stronger and faster so I can understand if an athlete is born male but identifying as a female and compete as one, some females will feel a particular way about it,” Clinton Baker said.

“If she identifies as a girl then I think she should be able to run in the race because she can use the ladies room, she can wear a skirt, why not run and stay active,” Natasha Morgan said.

“The cream rises to the top,” Baker added. “Athletes now will tell you if you put UConn women on the court with men, UConn men might lose. It’s all in the spirit of competition, hard work and heart.”

Connecticut isn’t the only state in which the debate about transgender athletes in high school sports has taken place. In Texas, Mack Beggs, the two-time girls state wrestling champion, has been forced by state law to wrestle against girls despite transitioning from girl to boy because the policy there forces athletes to compete in the gender that is on their birth certificate.

Here;  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/06/13/transgender-track-athletes-win-connecticut-state-championship-debate-ensues/

How can so many Americans NOT SEE how ridiculous this is?  You can't be a 6'5", 230 pound, huge muscled man and say, "I identify as a woman so I want to wrestle against women, play basketball as a woman, shower with women, play volleyball against women and I demand you call me Shirley."  But apparently that's EXACTLY what Natasha Morgan and millions of other folks FEEL is the right thing to do.

How do you explain this?

The Bible actually does in many places.  Here is one.

Romans 1
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Yep!  Almost a guarantee that the ONLY people in America who think this is a good idea are the folks who don't read the Bible, don't believe the Bible and reject the exclusivity claims of Jesus Christ.

Hat tip to Tim E.

Sex and the Single Person

Fornication and adultery are rampant in this country.  Millions of college kids believe that being in college is a license to have sex with as many people as possible.  Love and commitment have NOTHING to do with it.  High School kids are saying they are being harassed and ridiculed if they are 15 or 16 and are still virgins.  They report that the peer pressure is enormous.

Meanwhile, Americans who are married are reporting that a large percentage are having sex with others besides their spouse.

I was discussing this with an older gentleman who has spent 70 years attending his local Lutheran church and his comment regarding all this un-biblical sex was, 'I'm pretty sure God has a lot bigger concerns than what men are doing with their penises."

Of course this also applies to his new beliefs (which have evolved) on men having anal sex with other men.

Tragic.

Today we read Pastor Greg Laurie's devotional on this topic which I will post below.

SEX AND TH SINGLE PERSON

God's will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
—1 Thessalonians 4:3

Sex and the single person can be summed up in one word: no. Am I saying that a single person can’t have sex? Exactly. More importantly, that is what God is saying. Sex is not bad; it has been created by God. But there is a proper place for it, and that place is not outside of the marriage relationship.

Someone might say, “Well, Greg, that is your interpretation, and I think it’s very narrow. My God is loving and wants me to express myself. My God says it is okay for me to have sex with my boyfriend.”

Actually, I don’t dispute that. I would just say her God is not the same as the God of Bible. She has another god, and I guarantee that god won’t save her. The God of the Bible very clearly says this about sex: “God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin” (1 Thessalonians 4:3 NLT). Hebrews 13:4 says, “Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery” (NLT). And Proverbs 5:15 says, “Drink water from your own well—share your love only with your wife” (NLT).

Outside of its proper context, sex can be extremely destructive spiritually and even physically. That’s why there is no such thing as a so-called “one-night fling.” People will say that it didn’t mean anything. It means a lot. And the reason it means a lot is because when you enter into a sexual union with someone, you effectively become one flesh with them (see 1 Corinthians 6:15–16).

There is always a way out of temptation, and sometimes it’s as simple as the door. Flee temptation and don’t leave a forwarding address.

As you look around America and see the explosion of sexual perversion, pornography, adultery and fornication while at the same time seeing how folks are openly rejecting God's Word, Jesus Christ....it becomes one more reason why we shouldn't be surprised if the trumpet were to blow sometime soon.

Iran Admits Connection to 9/11

Imploding the Twin Towers on 9/11 by flying hijacked jets into them was a big job that would have required lots of planning and coordination from lots of different players.

The 9/11 Commission always suspected that Iran had something to do with it and now, for the first time ever, an Iranian Gov't official has confirmed some of their suspicions.

An Iranian official recently admitted on state television that his government helped the majority Saudi terrorists on their way to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. This Iranian role in helping Sunni al-Qaeda commit the most heinous terrorist attack in US history was long-suspected by the American government but, until now, was never confirmed.

On Friday, Al Arabiya, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab news site based in Dubai, published an article covering an interview with Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the international affairs assistant in the Iranian judiciary. In the interview, broadcast via Iranian state TV on May 30, Larijani discussed the role his government played in the 9/11 attacks.

US investigators who compiled the 2004 9/11 Commission Report wrote their suspicions that the Iranian government knowingly facilitated the passage of al-Qaeda members who later carried out the terrorist attacks, allowing the would-be terrorists to conceal their origins to US immigration officials.

“We believe this topic requires further investigation by the US government,” the commission stated.

Their suspicions were confirmed two weeks ago when Larijani admitted that Iranian immigration officials had done precisely that.

“The lengthy report of the 9/11 commission which was headed by figures like Lee Hamilton and others mentioned in pages 240 and 241, i.e. in two or three pages, queries Iran’s role in the issue [and said that] a group of reports stated that al-Qaeda members who wanted to go to Saudi Arabia and other countries like Afghanistan or others and who entered Iranian territories by land or by air asked the Iranian authorities not to stamp their passports [and told them] that if the Saudi government knows they’ve come to Iran, it will prosecute them,” Larijani said in the interview.

“Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence,” he added.

This complicity in 9/11 went even deeper and included Hezbollah.

“The Americans took this as evidence of Iran’s cooperation with al-Qaeda and viewed the passage of an airplane through Iran’s airspace, which had one of the pilots who carried out the attacks and a Hezbollah military leader sitting (next to) him on board, as evidence of direct cooperation with al-Qaeda through the Lebanese Hezbollah,” he said.

The US State Department has classified Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism for helping al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Earlier this year, a federal US judge ordered Iran to pay $6 billion to families of the victims of 9/11 based on US government assertions that various Iranian government entities were accountable for the attacks.

This al Qaeda-Iran connection goes far deeper than the one attack. Larijani’s confession confirms a strong Iran-al Qaeda connection that was outlined in documents seized from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s hideout when he was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. The CIA published these documents in November last year. Among the 470,000 documents seized, 19 pages were specifically on the prominent ties with Iran.

The US State Department acknowledged this confession in an Arab-language Twitter post but did not comment.

Here;  https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/109267/arab-media-for-first-time-iran-admits-connection-to-9-11/

I believe this info helps to prove that the US Gov't had nothing to do with blowing up the Towers as some conspiracy theorists insist.  Some people think George Bush ordered it done so he could use it as an excuse to go to war in Iraq.

I believe the attack was done by Muslim extremists who wanted to die in jihad so they could go to their mythical paradise by pleasing their moon god, Allah, and start drinking wine and having sex with their promised virgins....and this article would add to the massive weight of evidence to prove this.

Palestinians; No Place for Gays

It's ironic that the leftists in America want to boycott Israel and stand with their "oppressed" brothers and sisters in Palestine...because while the left in America are HUGE LGBT supporters, the Muslim-Arabs of Palestine, whom they support, are killing gays.

On June 8, an estimated 250,000 people attended the Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv. Tourists from all around the world came to Israel to watch and participate in the event. The theme of this year's event is "The Community Makes History" -- a reference to the LGBT community in Israel.

Meanwhile, as the Israelis were celebrating tolerance on the streets of Tel Aviv, their Palestinian neighbors were busy doing precisely the opposite: they were demanding that people should be fired for producing a television comedy about gay people in the Gaza Strip.

The controversial program, called "Out of Focus," has drawn strong condemnations from Palestinians, who are now calling for punishing those responsible for "insulting Arab and Islamic values."

In Palestinian and Arab society, homosexuality is denounced and stigmatized. Homosexuality is illegal under Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, and dozens of gay Palestinians have fled to Israel out of fear of persecution and harassment. In the West Bank, the laws of the Palestinian Authority also do not protect the rights of gay Palestinians.

In the past decades, several gay Palestinians have been killed in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In 2016, Hamas executed one of its top military commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, 34, after he was found guilty of "moral turpitude" -- a thinly veiled reference to homosexuality. Ishtiwi, who was killed by three bullets to the chest, would have lived a safe life had he been an Israeli citizen. If he were living in Israel, he could even have participated in the Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv without having to conceal his identity. But he lived in the Gaza Strip among people who consider homosexuality a sin punishable by death -- and who act on it.

The case of Ishtiwi lays bare a major difference between Israeli and Palestinian society and culture.

Israel has been marching forward towards tolerance and acceptance of the gay community's rights, while Palestinians remain as intolerant as ever with regards to those who dare to act and speak differently.

Here;  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12496/palestinians-gays

Lots of authors have reminded us over the years that the Arab citizens of Israel have more freedom and security than any other Arab's living in the Middle East.

Trump and North Korea Meeting a Success

The Democrats have to be freaking out about right now!  Talk show host, Bill Maher, is in some hot water for saying he hopes America collapses into a major recession again because it will be the only thing that prevents Trump from getting re-elected!

The folks in Israel already think Trump is their hero and now we read that the people of South Korea and North Korea and singing Trump's praises.

'Complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula'

Overnight, President Trump led a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We had a tremendous 24 hours. We've had a tremendous three months, actually, because this has been going on for quite a while," President Trump said. "I want to thank Chairman Kim for taking the first bold step toward a bright new future for his people."

The two leaders signed a joint statement that outlines such a future. Here is the key phrase: "President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK [North Korea], and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."

The statement also commits to reestablishing U.S.–North Korean relations. "Nearly 70 years ago . . . an extremely bloody conflict ravaged the Korean Peninsula," President Trump said. "Yet, while the armistice was agreed to, the war never ended. To this day, never ended. But now we can all have hope that it will soon end. And it will. It will soon end."


"Chairman Kim has the chance to seize an incredible future for his people," the President continued. "Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace."

President of Turkey Predicts War Between the Cross and the Crescent

If you want to know how irrational some Muslim leaders are, look no further than Turkey.

Today we read that Turkey's president Erdogan is pretty upset that Austria is going to kick out some fiery Imams preaching death, destruction and takeover of their host country.

In the delusional mind of Erdogan, Turkey has every right to limit churches being built and arrest anybody who disagrees with his vision of Islamic domination of the world...BUT if anyone dares limit the spread of Islam in Europe, then those are fighting words.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked Austria’s impending closure of mosques and consequent expulsion of Turkish-funded imams, saying the move is anti-Islamic while promising a response.

“These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul covered by AFP.

Austria’s populist government made the announcement on Friday morning at a press conference as part of the governing coalition’s campaign against radical Islamic ideology and the influence of countries like Turkey in the Austrian Islamic community, Kronen Zeitung reports.

Media reports that between 40 and 60 imams, including their families, could be expelled in total. The imams all stand accused of receiving funding from abroad. Official investigations have been launched in 11 cases. Two of the imams had already been denied extensions to their residency permits.

Among the mosques facing closure is the Mosque of the Grey Wolves on Antonsplatz, in the working-class Vienna district of Favoriten, where the Gallipoli reenactment took place.

The other six mosques are in Vienna, Upper Austria and Carinthia, in all of which hardline salafist teachings are said to be widespread.

Mr. Erdogan, speaking Saturday, said: “They say they’re going to kick our religious men out of Austria. Do you think we will not react if you do such a thing?”

“That means we’re going to have to do something,” he added without elaborating.

Around 360,000 people of Turkish origin live in Austria, including 117,000 Turkish nationals.

Relations between Ankara and Vienna have been strained since a failed coup against Erdogan in 2016 which was followed by a wave of arrests. Mr. Erdogan’s speech precedes presidential and legislative elections on June 24 in which he faces stiff opposition.

During last year’s Turkish referendum on expanding the president’s powers, tensions ran high between Vienna and Ankara after Austria said it would not allow campaign-related events.

The new policy comes after a number of scandals involving mosques in Austria, including one in which Islamists were plotting to overthrow the government to replace it with an Islamic caliphate. The ATIB association came under fire last week when a Turkish mosque posted images of young children swearing oaths to the Turkish state.

Here;  http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/06/10/erdogan-predicts-war-between-the-cross-and-crescent-over-austria-mosque-closures/

I ask some of my liberal-leftist friends, "If it was 1940 and we were at war with Germany, would you allow a bunch of German men to immigrate into America without some extreme vetting to make sure they weren't part of the Nazi party?"

Most say that that makes sense.

So WHY do the liberals not see that we need extreme vetting before we let Muslim men and women into our country...many of whom went to schools and Mosques where "Death to America!" was chanted on a regular basis?

You see, the liberals have a soft spot for the downtrodden and disenfranchised members of society...and they think the poor Muslims have been catching a bad reputation because they just FEEL that Islam is a "great religion of peace"....even though all the evidence over the last 1400 years clearly shows otherwise.

Hat tip to Tim E.

#FreeIran2018

Have you guys heard that the Iranian people are getting totally fed up with the Ayatollahs and Muslim extremists who have been running, and ruining, their country since 1979?

The protests are getting louder and stronger.

There is even a hashtag on Twitter called #FreeIran2018

Members of a growing grass-roots movement in Iran seeking to overthrow the mullah-led Islamic regime are emboldened by new sanctions imposed this week by the United States on top of the canceling of the nuclear agreement.

The evidence can be seen in Twitter posts by Iranians with the hash tag #FreeIran2018, which declare support for the U.S. move Wednesday and report bold acts of civil disobedience and major protests intended ultimately to foster revolution.

Javad Hamida‏ wrote Wednesday: “I am an Iranian, And I welcome the sanctions against the tortuous and oppressive organs of the Iranian people, By the US government.”

Maryam Rajavi,‏ the leader of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, an organization trying to overthrow the government, and the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, wrote that the “mullahs’ religious fascism in #Iran is fleeting, devoid of any future. The people of Iran are seeking the overthrow of the entire Velayat-e Faqih regime,” referring to the Islamic government.

Thursday night in the town of Zarrin-Shahr, a city of 56,000 in central Iran, “young supporters of a free Iran” set fire to a picture on a sidewalk of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

The man who shot video of the act, which was distributed via Twitter, can be heard saying, according to an English translation: “Dictator, say hello to your end.”

At Iran’s second busiest airport, hackers took over video monitors to display messages supporting the revolt.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran — which describes itself as “a broad coalition of democratic Iranian organizations, groups, and personalities” founded in 1981 in Tehran — is promoting an annual international gathering of Iranians scheduled for June 30 in Paris.

“This year’s gathering will be held circumstances of unceasing nationwide protests and uprising of the people from all walks of life and all segments of society against the religious tyranny ruling Iran and demanding regime change,” the council said.

“This gathering will express solidarity with the Iranian people’s long quest for freedom and democracy, and support for the democratic alternative to the current dictatorship in Iran.”

http://www.wnd.com/2018/06/tweets-from-iran-reveal-growing-revolution/

In America the leftists are so busy trying to destroy Donald Trump that they will pay little attention to the fact that a lot of Iranian people SUPPORT Trump's decision to pull out of Obama's awful Iranian Nuke Deal and re-impose the sanctions on the lying Iranian government.

The Israelis proved that Iran has been lying to the world community since they took Obama's  money.  They may actually only be days or months away from being able to put together a bomb.

Pray for the people of Iran.  We heard a few years ago that every day thousands of Iranians are leaving the lies of Islam behind and accepting Jesus Christ as their savior.  There is a harvest happening their.

The Bible says that Iran will join Russia and Turkey in a plot to destroy Israel and that the wrath of God will fall on those nations...but most watchers agree this will happen AFTER that rapture.  So pray that the eyes of the Iranian people will be opened before the trumpet blows so that they can be counted in the Bride of Christ.