Muslim Men Charged With Throwing Bombs in NYC

 The media will grind their brains trying to figure out how to report on this without sounding Islamophobic.

Two Muslims from Philadelphia were in NYC and made some bombs in hopes of blowing up people.  They yelled 'Allah Akbar!' while throwing their bombs and said they were inspired by ISIS videos they could watch on their phones.

And remember just a few weeks ago in Texas a dude with a sweatshirt that said, "Property of Allah" went into a Texas nightclub and killed some folks and injured dozens more.

Hmmmmm......(says the media) what could possibly be the connection??  Islam can't possibly be a problem because we know it's a religion of peace and those Muslims are persecuted...by the Jews!

Two men from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were charged in an "ISIS-inspired" attack over the weekend outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence when homemade bombs ignited as protesters clashed. 

Emir Balat, 18, and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, who are both from the Philadelphia suburbs in Bucks County, were arrested after Saturday's protest. A spokesperson for Neshaminy High School said Balat is a senior there, but he was enrolled virtually and has not attended in-person classes since September. Kayumi is a 2024 graduate of Council Rock High School North, officials from the school confirmed.

On Monday, the Southern District of New York charged Balat and Kayumi with five counts, including attempted support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS), use of a weapon of mass destruction and transportation of explosive material. 

New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Monday both admitted to being inspired by ISIS. Balat told investigators he wanted to carry out a bigger attack, Tirsch said.

"[Balat] also told investigators that he hoped to carry out an attack even bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, which he noted resulted in 'only three deaths,'" Tisch said.

Tisch said that Balat and Kayumi both waived their Miranda rights, and Kayumi told police he watched ISIS propaganda on his phone. While waiving his rights, Balat wrote a statement and declared his allegiance to the Islamic State, Tisch said.

"This was an alleged ISIS-inspired act of terrorism that could have killed American citizens. We will not allow ISIS's poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation — our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant, as they were when these devices were brought to a protest," U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.

Here;  2 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, men charged in "ISIS-inspired" attack outside NYC Mayor Mamdani's residence - CBS Philadelphia

Muslim Mayor Mamdani couldn't figure out how to report on such a thing to his social media followers so he started with saying some Right wing social media influencers who may have white supremacy ideas were in NYC to protest something and those kind of folks have no business being here.  But I guess it was kind of wrong that someone tried to kill them with home-made bombs.

Top Rabbi Says Iranian War Points to Messiah Coming This Year

 I'd have to say about ALL my readers know that when a Jewish Rabbi says, "Messiah is coming", he's not talking about the return of Jesus.  A Rabbi that has not accepted Jesus as Messiah is talking about a different Messiah coming.  Most believe that when the Antichrist comes that the Jews will initially think he is the Messiah.  This could be why the Antichrist confirms a peace agreement with Israel and it's neighbors and also could be why the Jews are allowed to build their 3rd Temple.  It's all a ruse to gain the trust of the Jews before he breaks the covenant in the middle and turns his full attention on destroying them.

So when we see a headline like this we pay attention to it.

The Messiah Is Coming This Year — And the War With Iran Is the Proof

The war against Iran that President Trump is prosecuting alongside Israel did not begin in a Pentagon situation room. According to Rabbi Mendel Kessin, one of the most original and incisive Torah thinkers alive today, what the world is witnessing right now was written thousands of years ago as literal prophecy. In a lecture posted to YouTube this past Friday, Rabbi Kessin laid out a breathtaking framework connecting the current American-Israeli campaign against Iran to the final redemption of the Jewish people, the fall of Haman, the role of Donald Trump as a messianic figure, and the imminent building of the Third Temple — this year.

“When you see evil over and over, and especially the chiefs of evil fall,” Rabbi Kessin told his audience, “this is no simple matter. You know what it means? It means that the Satan, who is the defender and the motivator of all these people, he’s dying. He has no power in the court in heaven.”

The Bible’s opening lines contain more than cosmology. In Bereishit (Genesis), the text reads: “And the earth was tohu va’vohu — unformed and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.” (Bereishit 1:2). Rabbi Kessin, drawing on the tradition of the Sages, explains that these four terms — tohu, vohu, darkness, and the deep — correspond to four distinct levels of klipah (shell or husk), meaning the four spiritual environments of evil that God built into creation.

The first environment, tohu, is a world of mixed good and evil — the lowest and most changeable level. The second, vohu, is an environment of concentrated, nearly pure evil. The third is darkness — evil that has been rationalized into a full philosophy, a worldview that makes harm seem legitimate and even noble. The fourth is the proliferation of that dark philosophy worldwide.

These are not abstract categories. Rabbi Kessin maps them directly onto history. Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome — the four great civilizations through which the Jewish people passed in exile — each embody one of these four klipot. 

In Kabbalah, klipot are metaphysical barriers that hide divine light and holiness. They represent selfish desires, impurity, and obstacles to spiritual growth. These layers function like peels on fruit, concealing the inner, holy essence, and are often created by negative or selfish human actions.

The Jewish mission in each exile was not merely survival. It was spiritual demolition: to observe God’s commandments under crushing opposition, extract the hidden sparks of holiness trapped within those civilizations, and thereby drain those empires of their spiritual energy until they collapsed.

“That’s why these ancient civilizations don’t exist anymore,” Rabbi Kessin explained. “Because the Jews’ behavior in that civilization, by observing the will of God, destroyed it or buried it.”

Babylon is dust. Persia ceased to exist as a world power after Purim. Greece, which, under Alexander, dominated the known world, is today a minor country. Rome — whether Byzantine or Italian — is gone. The pattern is not a coincidence.

Iran Is the Last Klipah

But Persia came back. That, says Rabbi Kessin, is itself a signal.

Iran is not merely a geopolitical adversary. In the framework of Torah, it is the resurrection of the klipah of Persia — and more than that, it is the last stronghold of Amalek, the metaphysical enemy of Israel. The supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Rabbi Kessin argues, is a gilgul (reincarnation) of Haman.

The evidence he cites is in the gematria (the numerical value of Hebrew letters). Khamenei’s name, as spelled in the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv — with a yud, giving a value of 119 — yields the exact numerical value of ze hu Haman: “This is Haman.” It is also the gematria of gilgul Haman — the reincarnation of Haman. “He’s a gilgul of Haman,” Rabbi Kessin stated, “and the rest of his mullahs are either his children… and his followers.”

This is why the timing of the current war shook Rabbi Kessin so visibly. The Israeli strike that killed Khamenei occurred on the very day that the weekly Torah portion commands the Jewish people to obliterate the name of Amalek. “While the Jews in Israel are reading that parasha, that section of the Torah where it commands the Jews to take out Haman — he is being obliterated,” Rabbi Kessin said. “That’s a message. God is saying: I want to show you what I’m doing.”

And then, just days later, came Purim.

Trump as Gilgul of Esau

This is where Rabbi Kessin’s framework becomes most provocative — and most illuminating.

Esau (Eisav in Hebrew), the twin brother of Jacob (Yaakov), was not simply a villain. According to the Sages, Esau was initially a man of extraordinary spiritual potential — Rabbi Kessin calls him “the fourth patriarch” — whose assigned mission was to enter the world of mixed good and evil and purge it of its darkness. He was ish sadeh, a man of the field: a warrior against evil in the external world, the complement to Jacob’s mission of Torah and holiness. But Esau fell. He was seduced by the very evil he was sent to fight, and the Satan subdued him.

The prophecy in Bereishit states: “And the elder will serve the younger” (Bereishit 25:23). Rabbi Kessin notes that the text does not say “Esau will serve Jacob.” It says “the elder” and “the younger” — using the language of brotherhood. That is deliberate. It points to a future moment of reconciliation, when the reincarnated Esau returns to do teshuva (repentance) and once again fights alongside Jacob.

“What you really have when you have America and Israel fighting Iran,” Rabbi Kessin said, “is really the restoration of two brothers.”

Donald Trump, in Rabbi Kessin’s reading, is the gilgul of Esau — the good part, what the tradition calls teshuvat Eisav. God saved Trump from an assassin’s bullet by a quarter of an inch. “Why?” Rabbi Kessin asked. “Well, now we see why — to take out Iran.” Trump’s seemingly unexpected pivot from domestic MAGA politics to an aggressive, almost singular focus on dismantling the world’s most dangerous regimes — Venezuela’s Maduro captured in a flawless intelligence operation, the head of Mexico’s cartels eliminated, and now the decapitation strike against Iran’s leadership — is not a political anomaly. It is a mission.

“The Satan is dying,” Rabbi Kessin said. “He has no power in the court in heaven. Otherwise, how could you see so many heads of the armies of evil falling?”

The Year of the Messiah

Rabbi Kessin then turned to the Jewish calendar year 5786 — this year. The gematria of 786 is identical to the phrase yavo Mashiach — “the Messiah will come.” It is also the gematria of gilui Shechina b’Yisrael b’Har Sinai — the revelation of the divine presence in Israel at Mount Sinai.

He then cited the Yalkut Shimoni, a vast medieval compendium of midrashim, which contains a passage that Rabbi Kessin has referenced for years. Written thousands of years ago, it states that in the year the Messiah comes, Persia will declare war against the entire world. Edom — identified with the West, specifically America — will fight back and defeat Persia. And then a divine voice, a bat kol, will ring out from heaven: “Do not worry. The time of your redemption has arrived.”

“What that means very simply,” Rabbi Kessin said, “is that this is the last war.”

He was emphatic: we have crossed a threshold. The era of ikveta d’Meshicha — the “footsteps of the Messiah,” the period preceding the messianic era — is over. We are now in atchalta d’Geulah, the beginning of redemption. And that process, once started, is irrevocable. “It cannot be turned back,” Rabbi Kessin said. “It cannot be reversed.”

The Third Temple — This Year

Rabbi Kessin closed with what may be his most stunning claim. He cited a commentary known as the Ba’al HaTurim, who notes that the word v’shachanti — “and I will dwell” — from the verse in Parashat Terumah where God says “And I will dwell in their midst” (Shemot 25:8), contains encoded within it the duration of both the First and Second Temples. The letters of the word allude to 410 years (the length of the First Temple period) and 420 years (the length of the Second Temple). And the full gematria of v’shachanti? 786. The year 5786.

“So in 5786 — which is this year — that is actually when the Third Beit HaMikdash will be built,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Don’t be surprised if you wake up one day and all of a sudden the newspapers are reporting… we can’t believe it. There’s actually a Temple sitting on top of the Har HaBayit, the Temple Mount.”

The divine presence, the Shechinah, will descend from the heavenly Beit HaMikdash to the earthly one — and the entire world will feel it. “That will convince everybody of the Shechinah, the divine presence, and the Messiah,” Rabbi Kessin said. “All nine billion people.”

Before that can happen, Rabbi Kessin adds, there is one more obstacle: what he calls the erev rav (the mixed multitude), which he identifies as the secular Israeli government, particularly its Supreme Court, which he charges with actively blocking Torah education from 1.5 million Israeli high school students. “God must remove them in order to bring the Messiah,” he said, “which I believe is going to happen imminently.”

We are not watching a geopolitical realignment. We are watching the architecture of history reveal itself — one klipah at a time.

Here;  The Messiah Is Coming This Year — And the War With Iran Is the Proof - Israel365 News

The secondhand of God's timepiece is the Temple Mount.  If the Jews start expecting a 3rd Temple and their messiah, Christ followers can know that the rapture is getting really near.

A Giant Coverup By Smithsonian

 We have posted on this many times but today we find out someone has been looking into the coverup of giants in America and why the Smithsonian may have played a big part in it.  There are dozens of newspaper articles from Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and many other places where they report on farmers clearing fields and discovering burial mounds with giant skeletons in them.  In many of the articles it will say, “the skeletons were boxed and shipped to the Smithsonian for further study”, and then never seen again!   Why?

We have one answer but we have not watch the video yet, so it’s our own hypothesis.  We think that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was really catching wind in all the science communities at that time.  We believe the Prince of this World (Satan) wanted to sell the theory of evolution to all people on earth and these skeletons would totally refute the monkeys to man theory…so they conveniently lost them all.

So read below and let’s watch the video and see what reasons come up.

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Did America once uncover giant skeletons with double rows of teeth and six fingers… and then quietly stop talking about it?

Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, newspapers across the United States reported discoveries of giant human bones found inside ancient burial mounds. From Ohio mound builders to Tennessee burial sites, from Wisconsin effigy mounds to discoveries in Pennsylvania and beyond, reports described:

• Skeletons 7, 8, 9 and even 10 feet tall
• Double rows of teeth
• Six fingers and six toes
• Unusual elongated skulls
• Massive jawbones
• Thick femurs and oversized remains

Some accounts connected these finds to the mound builders of North America. Others compared them to the Nephilim in Genesis 6and the biblical account of giants in the land.

The Bible describes giants before and after the Flood. In 2 Samuel 21:20 (KJV), it speaks of a giant with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. Could these old American newspaper reports of six-fingered skeletons be coincidence? Exaggeration? Misidentification? Or something else?

We examine:

• 19th century newspaper reports of giant skeletons
• Double dentition and double row teeth claims
• Six fingered giant accounts
• Ancient American burial mounds
• The mound builder mystery
• Smithsonian institution involvement in collecting artifacts
• Claims of a Smithsonian cover up
• Suppressed archaeology theories
• Forbidden archaeology and lost history

Were these simply tall Native American burials? Measurement errors? Hoaxes? Or did early excavations uncover something that did not fit the accepted historical model?

This episode explores giants in America, Nephilim evidence claims, ancient giant skeleton reports, and the controversy surrounding alleged institutional suppression.

Because sometimes a cover up doesn’t look like destruction.
Sometimes it looks like classification, cataloging and silence.

Watch video here;  https://youtu.be/pak-MYatRWw?si=QgOtsxmsE8biu3wm

Killing the “Great Satan”

 The Iranian people, in their own words are posted below. This is a day of celebration.  We don’t know what the future holds but let’s celebrate that this demonic cabal, worshipping Satan and dreaming of killing all Jews and America, their leadership is dead.  The estimates in Iran of converts to Christianity are in the hundreds of thousands, so let’s celebrate with our brothers and sisters in Christ that for now, they are free.  And their oppressors are in the ground.

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The United States, Israel, and Qatar have now attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran along with several other countries providing defensive coordination. News across the US has been about the success of the military operation, congressional approval or lack thereof, the cost of the war in gross numbers and to Americans individually, and whether this war is justified. 

As an Iranian-born American who was arrested and sentenced to death by hangingbecause of my faith in Jesus, let me assure you it is not only justified but necessary. I spent most of my life living under the brutal misogynist regime that has killed tens of thousands of Iranians in the past two months alone, let alone the hundreds of thousands slaughtered in the name of their demonic god in Iran and around the world in the past 47 years. This war is not only justified, it’s long overdue. 

https://allisraelnews.com/blog/killing-the-great-satan

If Iran Falls, Does That Delay Ezekiel 38?

 I've heard this question from a few readers so let's talk about it.

First off, NOTHING is "delayed" on God's time.  Everything happens right on schedule, to the day, to the moment.  God is not on His throne saying, "Wow!  I never thought they'd pull off executing all of the Iranian leadership with one bomb!  That's crazy!  Now I have to figure out a way to make Iran more Islamic!"

Second, let's remember that even if Christians and Western thinkers end up ruling Iran, what do you think is going to happen to a lot of them at the rapture?  They're gone!  And who is left to run Iran?  Muslims...most of which will start chanting "death to Israel!" soon after they gain control.

So let's look at what this article from Prophecy Watchers is saying.

For decades, Bible prophecy teachers have pointed to one of the most dramatic passages in Scripture--Book of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39--as a roadmap for a future war that would shake the Middle East and the world. The prophecy describes a coalition of nations rising up against Israel in the last days. Among the nations listed is Persia--widely understood to be modern-day Iran--alongside powers commonly associated with Russia and Turkey.

For years, the alignment seemed obvious. Iran's revolutionary regime openly called for the destruction of Israel. Russia strengthened ties with Tehran and armed its proxies. Turkey drifted further from the West while often criticizing Israel. To many students of prophecy, the stage appeared to be slowly assembling for what is often called the "Ezekiel 38 scenario."

But geopolitics has a way of complicating even the clearest expectations.

Today, Russia remains bogged down in the war with Ukraine, a grinding conflict that has drained military resources and strategic attention. Meanwhile, a dramatic shift may be unfolding in Iran itself. While the conflict involving Iran is far from finished, it increasingly appears possible--perhaps even likely--that the current regime could fall and be replaced by leaders more friendly toward the West.

If that happens, Christians who closely watch prophecy will have to wrestle with an perplexing question: What happens to the Ezekiel 38 scenario if Iran suddenly becomes pro-Western?

For many prophecy watchers, the idea feels like a wrench thrown into the gears of expectation. If Persia is no longer hostile to Israel, the alignment described in Ezekiel appears, at least temporarily, to drift farther away. A nation once viewed as a central aggressor could suddenly become a reluctant partner of Western powers.

But history--and Scripture--warn believers against assuming that today's headlines define tomorrow's prophetic reality.

Even now, the situation remains fluid. Russia and Turkey have expressed strong opposition to the attacks against Iran and have called for restraint showing they are still very much friends of Iran.

Moments like that may seem small, but they reveal something deeper: alliances in the region are fragile. What looks stable today can fracture tomorrow.

In fact, this kind of instability may actually move the world closer to the conditions described in Ezekiel rather than further away.

The prophecy describes Israel dwelling in relative security before the invasion occurs. The nation is portrayed as prosperous, confident, and somewhat at ease--conditions that historically have rarely existed in Israel's modern history. Yet if Iran's current regime were removed and tensions in the region temporarily cooled, Israel might indeed experience a greater sense of security.

Such a shift could paradoxically fulfill another key element of the prophecy: a moment when Israel appears less guarded and more stable than its enemies expect.

For Christians watching these events unfold, the lesson is both humbling and encouraging.

Prophecy has never unfolded according to human timelines.

Prophetic expectations should never be built solely on current alliances or political assumptions. The Middle East has proven time and again that its political landscape can change almost overnight. Alliances form, dissolve, and reform in ways few analysts predict.

Christians witnessed how quickly the world changed during the COVID era. Governments implemented sweeping policies in a matter of weeks. Economies halted. Borders closed. The global order shifted faster than most people believed possible.

If modern history has taught anything, it is that the world can transform rapidly.

The same could easily happen in the Middle East.

Even if a new Iranian government initially moves toward the West, decades of ideological hostility toward Israel cannot simply disappear overnight. Generations of Iranians have been raised under a regime that relentlessly demonized Israel and the Jewish people.

Cultural and political shifts take time. Internal factions remain. Power struggles emerge. And geopolitical pressures from nations like Russia or Turkey could pull Iran back toward a different alignment in the future.

In other words, today's developments may represent a pause--not a cancellation--of prophetic expectations.

For believers, this requires patience and perspective.

Scripture never instructs Christians to force prophecy into current events. Instead, it calls them to remain watchful, humble, and faithful.

God is not reacting to world events. He is orchestrating history according to His purposes.

That truth should bring deep reassurance.

The same God who restored Israel after two millennia, who caused deserts to bloom and nations to rise, is the same God guiding the events that will eventually fulfill every remaining promise written in Scripture.

The path to those fulfillments may twist and turn in ways no one expects.

But the destination has never been in doubt.

For Christians watching the headlines today, the call is simple: remain attentive, remain hopeful, and remember that prophecy is not a puzzle for human timelines--it is a promise written by a sovereign God whose plans unfold exactly when He intends.

Here;  https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=9648

Yes!  Ezekiel is clear that Israel will be wealthy and living without walls and be a 'peaceful and unsuspecting people'.  Does that describe Israel at all today?  Nope!!

But WHO could bring about the conditions to make them unsuspecting?  Ummmm.....maybe the Antichrist?  How?  When he signs a peace agreement with them.  When would that happen?  Not until AFTER THE RAPTURE BECAUSE the Antichrist isn't revealed until after the Restrainer (Holy Spirit) is removed. (2 Thessalonians)

We have no idea what the outcome of this war with Iran will bring.  But for a few days, I think we can celebrate with the cheering Iranians from around the world that are SOOO happy that Trump and Israel pulled the trigger.  In essence they are all singing, "Ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead!"

The hard work will begin for the Iranians when they fight for what kind of government they actually want.  And can the rational folks and Christians in Iran hold off the Satanic sway of the Muslims who are mourning the deaths of their leaders?

Muslims Believe Trump is Muslim Version of Antichrist

 This is kind of trippy.  Years ago I blogged many times on the Mahdi.  He is the Muslim savior who will arrive in the very last days and defeat Dajjal, who is the Muslim version of antichrist, and usher in a Muslim world.  But the strange part is that Bible readers will recognize lots of attributes about the Mahdi coincide with what the Bible says the Antichrist will be.

Today we read that many Muslims, mostly Shiiites, believe that Trump is Dajjal and that the Mahdi is going to soon return to defeat him!

So just think real slow....Satan is prepping the world for the rapture and the Antichrist.  Muslims believe that that their savior is the Mahdi, but he will really be the Antichrist!  But they falsely believe that Trump is their version of Antichrist.

So when the REAL Antichrist shows up, Muslims will embrace him as the Mahdi.  And it's all being prepped right now!

Talk about massive deception!

For large numbers of Muslims all over the world, the fact that Donald Trump is leading an attack on Iran is evidence that the Islamic apocalypse is upon us. I realize that this may sound crazy to many of you, but this is what they actually believe. 

In Islamic theology, there is a shadowy figure known as "the Dajjal" that rises during the end times. According to Wikipedia, "the Dajjal" roughly corresponds to the figure of the Antichrist in the Christian faith...

Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: الْمَسِيحُ الدَّجَّالُ, romanized: Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, lit. 'the deceitful Messiah'),otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an antagonistic figure in Islamic apocalyptism who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative. 

The Dajjal is not mentioned in the Quran, but he is mentioned and described in the Hadith. Corresponding to the Antichrist in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the East, although the specific location varies among the various sources.

There is nobody in the world that Shiite Muslims hate more than Donald Trump.

And so it shouldn't be any surprise that many of them have started to believe that Trump is "the Dajjal"...

But a Fox News Digital investigation reveals that, for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times.

In this prophecy, Mahdi will emerge to battle Dajjal, the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist, in a final battle of Armageddon. For many of these ideologues, President Donald Trump is Dajjal.

Yes, a lot of them really do believe this.

And this is not a recent phenomenon.

More than a year ago, a senior cleric in Iran preached a sermon in which he boldly declared that "the Dajjal" is Trump...

A senior cleric appointed by Iran's Supreme Leader suggested in a sermon on Friday that US president Donald Trump was the one-eyed Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist prophesied to menace humanity around judgment day.

"He is completely one-eyed, and this is a sign of the end times," Seyyed Hassan Ameli told congregants in a sermon for Islamic Friday prayers according to the Tehran-based Didban News website.

Now that war has erupted, Muslims all over the world are having debates about whether Trump is "the Dajjal" or not.

This is particularly true in Shiite communities.

To many Shiites, the rise of the Dajjal is a sign that the Mahdi is about to reappear...

In the Twelver denomination of Shīʿa Islam, one of the signs of the reappearance of the Mahdi whom Twelvers consider to be their 12th Imam from the Ahl al-Bayt ("People of the Household"), is the advent of the Dajjal.

"Whoever denies al-Mahdi has denied God, and whoever accepts al-Dajjal has denied God (turned an infidel)." This Shīʿīte ḥadīth attributed to Muhammad strongly emphasizes the return of Dajjal and the event of the reappearance of the Mahdi.

This is why many of those that are currently running Iran do not fear this war.

They have actually been looking forward to exactly this sort of a scenario.  Once the Dajjal rises, the Mahdi is supposed to return during a time of great chaos and war...

Before his reappearance (Arabic: ظهور, romanized: ṭuhūr), the world will plunge into chaos, where immorality and ignorance will be commonplace, the Qur'an will be forgotten, and religion will be abandoned. There will be plagues, earthquakes, floods, wars and death.

Of course it isn't just Shiite Muslims in Iran that believe this nonsense.

Fox News actually discovered that this ideology is being preached at a Shiite mosque in northern Virginia...

At a recent Friday sermon at a local Shiite mosque in northern Virginia, an imam closed prayer with an earnest plea, before war broke out in Iran: "May Allah destroy all the nonbelievers - or kafiroon or munafiqoon," he said, using Arabic words that refer to "nonbelievers" and "hypocrites."

He asked for this victory "before the arrival of Imam Mahdi."

Fox News Digital observed the sermon and also witnessed a special table of honor in the middle of the mosque's main prayer hall, featuring framed photos of Khamenei embracing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah, also killed by Israel for orchestrating terrorist attacks.

Even though the United States and Israel clearly have the upper hand in this war so far, many Shiites fully expect the tide to turn once the Mahdi shows up.

Apparently the Mahdi's army is supposed to travel from Iran to Syria where the Mahdi will join forces with Jesus.  Then the Mahdi is supposed to kill the Dajjal in the land of Israel...

In the majority Sunni sect and the minority Shiite sect of Islam, clerics describe the Mahdi's army traveling from modern-day Iran to Damascus, Syria, where Jesus would appear at the Umayyad Mosque and pray behind the Mahdi. The Mahdi's forces would battle Dajjal in Syria and kill him in Lod, Israel, conquering the world.

Days ago, Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency repeated the end-times narrative, quoting Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem, claiming the regime is the "government of Imam Mahdi" and its anti-U.S. "resistance is the path to hastening his reappearance."

I know that this sounds like a bunch of nonsense, but many Shiites take this stuff very, very seriously.

And a lot of them are entirely convinced that now is the time for these things to happen.

So they aren't going to just lay down their arms and give up, because they are expecting the Mahdi to show up on a white horse at any moment.

The Shiite leaders of Iran will fight like mad because they believe that the Mahdi will soon come riding to their rescue.

Of course that isn’t going to happen, and millions of Shiite Muslims will be deeply disillusioned once all of this is finally over.

Here;  https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=9640

The author of this article points out some interesting facts, but he doesn't quite grasp the irony that the Mahdi of Shiite lore actually fills the bill for the Antichrist who will be revealed after the rapture.

Satan helped men write the Koran and he stole some prophecies from the Bible, put a twist on them, and put them as the word of Allah.  So when Muslims see wars, rumors of war, earthquakes and famines, they will think the Mahdi is close.  When the real Antichrist of the Bible shows up, they will embrace him as their savior, the Mahdi.

Be Careful About Believing the “US Missile Blows Up Iranian School” Story

 The Iranian News came out with a story that 165 kids were killed by a missile sent from America or Israel.  Instantly the idiots at CBS, CNN, The Guardian, NBC, etc…ran with the story.  “US Missile Kills 165 Kids Sitting in School.”  And the Leftists devoured the story because they were looking for a reason to turn on their righteous indignation and start making their protest signs.

But why would anyone believe anything from the Iranian news which is paid for by the regime that just got destroyed?  The regime that just murdered 40,000 of its citizens.

Of course the answer is, “they want to believe it because they hate Trump so bad that they’ve become delusional.”

Maybe an errant missile did hit the school?  But after seeing video after video of missile hitting the exact target in Iran, it seems unlikely.  It would be more likely that an errant missile fired by Iran from a military installation close to the school was responsible.  Remember that Iran supported Hamas and taught them to launch missiles from school and hospital rooftops knowing that if Israel struck the target Hamas would celebrate with images of dead kids spooned out to the eager Leftist media.

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Among the headlines today are stories of precise Western strikes taking out the minister of defense, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s daughter-in-law among other senior officials. But the headline that many critics of U.S. power seized upon was an alleged officials. But the headline that many critics of U.S. power seized upon was an alleged U.S. strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab.

Certainly, it is possible a bomb went awry; the elementary school is close to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base. But, after decades of being deceived by Hezbollah “fauxtography” and “Pallywood” processions in which dead Hamas children get up and run off as soon as the Western cameramen or naïve human rights workers move on, news agencies should think twice about accepting at face value a claim that originated with the Islamic Republic News Agency and Tasnim, a hardline outlet.

As Combat Camera’s Dodge Billingsley, one of the world’s foremost experts of the Chechnya war, noted in lectures to the U.S. military, when Chechen rebels would attack Russian targets, they would always do so with a cameraman in tow. If the cameraman was wounded or killed, they would often abort the mission because spreading the imagery of the attack was often more important than the target itself.“

https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/be-careful-about-blaming-the-united-states-or-israel-for-killing-iranian-schoolgirls

Texas Shooter Was an Angry Muslim, Surprise!

 When will people realize that Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization?  How many times do they have to tell us they want to take America for Islam and kill or subjugate everyone who refuses Allah?

Would the Leftists think it’s a good idea to import a bunch of Nazis whose religion says to hate Jews, blacks and browns?  And then give them the freedom to buy guns at every gun shop from Texas to California?  Of course not!  So why the blind spot for Islam?

All part of the delusion taking over the godless folks in America.

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The attacker who gunned down revelers at a bar in Austin, Texas, over the weekend appears to have posted antisemitic, anti-Christian and misogynistic posts in the year and a half leading up to the deadly shooting, according to law enforcement sources in Texas. Three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the rampage early Sunday, one day after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran. 

The X account investigators believe is linked to the gunman was created in October 2024 and its most recent post is from December. A law enforcement source briefed on the investigation said the gunman had previously posted pro-Iranian messaging, pro-Islam and anti-Christian comments, but there were no posts found so far indicating his plans or intentions to attack. 

Last April, when tensions between Israel and Iran were spiking, one post read: "THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL … you Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can't do a damn thing about it no matter what."

The post was a reply to an April 28 post by the Islamic Republic of Iran's foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghi, in which he criticized President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The gunman, identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, was killed by police in a shootout. Sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News the war in Iran, at least in part, appeared to have been a factor in his attack. 

At the time of the shooting, he was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag and a hoodie that said "Property of Allah." A Quran was found in the SUV he was driving during the attack, law enforcement sources told CBS News.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-shooting-social-media-posts/

A Nation Divided Will Not Stand

 America is seriously divided.  I think we all know that but we continue to see evidence that it's probably much, much worse than what we think.

Look at the ICE agents in Minnesota.  Half the country says, "great!  ICE should do their jobs and the local police should support them as fellow law enforcement agents."  And half the country says, "NO!  They are Gestapo agents working for Hitler Trump and anything we can do to harass and make it hard to do their jobs is the BEST thing a moral person, like me, can do!"

And now let's look at the Iranian leaders smoked at the breakfast meeting last weekend.  Half of us say, "Great!  The world will be better off without these terrorists funding terrorism around the world while attempting to build a nuclear bomb!  The Iranians are cheering and this is a great day to be celebrated!"  And the other half is making signs saying, "Hands off Iran!"  And the liberal women and college students of America have taken to the streets again to show their anger about terrorists being killed.

And yes, our Democrat leaders seem to be as equally confused as their constituents.

Democrats have reached a new low in their reactionary opposition to President Donald Trump. Disagreeing with the ongoing American military operation against Iran is one thing – but drawing moral equivalence between the United States and the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism while lamenting the death of an evil dictator reveals a dangerous confusion about who our enemies are and what they represent.

A thoroughly repugnant op-ed by Virginia Senator Tim Kaine in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday is indicative of Democrats’ utter lack of scruple.

“The U.S. and Iran were friends and allies until the U.S. led a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953,” Kaine informs us. “That led to seven decades of hostility – the U.S. funding a brutal dictatorship that was toppled by the Iranian people in 1979.”

In Kaine’s telling, the 1979 revolution was really the fault of America because the Iranian people just wanted to be free from a “brutal dictatorship.” But this fake history conveniently skips over what pre-1979 Iran actually was. Under the Shah, Iran was one of the most modernized nations in the Middle East. The country experienced rapid industrialization, expanding infrastructure, rising literacy rates, and a growing middle class. Women gained the right to vote in 1963. They attended universities, served in parliament, worked as judges and professionals, and lived in a society that – while imperfect – was outward-looking and economically developing.

Yes, the Shah ruled as an authoritarian, and his secret police suppressed dissent. But there is a profound difference between a secular, pro-Western regime pursuing modernization and a revolutionary Islamist government that fused totalitarian politics with radical theocracy.

The 1979 Islamic Revolution did not bring freedom. It imposed compulsory veiling, stripped women of judicial authority, enforced religious codes through “morality police,” and imprisoned or executed political opponents. Religious minorities, including Christians, were persecuted. Homosexuality became punishable by death. The regime quickly established itself as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, arming Hezbollah, backing Hamas, supporting Shiite militias in Iraq that killed American troops, and propping up Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Kaine continues his America-bashing rant a few lines later, listing supposed injustices perpetrated by the United States against Iran alongside a few of Iran’s worst atrocities that killed American citizens. This parallel structure is a transparent attempt to suggest that the entirety of nearly 50 years of violence can be boiled down to a simple tit-for-tat between two nations. Then comes the real kicker: “The U.S. and Iran have both constructed narratives whereby the other is the aggressor in this longstanding conflict.”

Kaine’s assertion that the United States and Iran merely have a difference of opinion about who the aggressor is should be taken as an insult by every American. This is not a symmetrical conflict built on misunderstanding. It is a decades-long campaign by the Islamic Republic of Iran to target Americans, destabilize U.S. allies, and export revolutionary violence with the singular goal of destroying the American way of life and Western Civilization.

Iran’s regime did not just criticize U.S. policy. It seized the American embassy in 1979 and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. It armed and funded Hezbollah, which murdered 241 U.S. service members in Beirut in 1983. It supplied bombs to Shiite militias in Iraq that killed and maimed American troops during the Iraq War. It bankrolls Hamas terrorism. Its leaders chant “Death to America” as a matter of official doctrine.

By contrast, the United States has sought to contain that violence, defend its forces, and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons that would permanently destabilize the region. Those are not morally equivalent objectives. One side is attempting to protect its citizens and maintain regional stability. The other openly seeks to undermine both.

Kaine’s framing effectively reduces this record to a mutual grievance cycle, as though America and a theocratic regime dedicated to our destruction are simply trapped in a misunderstanding. Such an anti-American and historically illiterate view should have no place in the halls of Congress.

Even more troubling is what Kaine does not say. Nowhere does he express relief that a brutal dictator responsible for repression at home and terror abroad is gone. Instead, he mourns the unraveling of the 2015 nuclear deal – an agreement whereby the Obama administration funneled billions to a regime that used those funds to continue killing Americans. It was appeasement, not strength, that emboldened Tehran – and leaders like Tim Kaine who still cling to that failed approach bear responsibility for the world we now confront.

But Tim Kaine is hardly the only one. With a few noteworthy exceptions like Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, Democrats’ responses to the initial strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other top Iranian officials over the weekend had the undeniable tone of rage and even sadness at the news.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the strikes “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib went after Israel, accusing Trump of “acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government.” Rep. Ilhan Omar stated that “there is no moral or strategic justification for this bloodshed” – again denying what should be the obvious moral high ground the United States occupies in its relationship with Iran.

What all of these comments reveal is that Democrats have lost the ability – or the willingness – to draw a clear line between aggressor and defender, between a terrorist regime and their own country. Whether that moral confusion stems from blind opposition to President Trump or from a deeper ideological hostility toward American power hardly matters at this point.

What does matter is that the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent nearly half a century funding terrorists, murdering dissidents, repressing women, and chanting for America’s destruction. The United States has spent those same decades trying to protect its citizens, defend its allies, and prevent that regime from acquiring the most dangerous weapons on earth.

Reasonable people can debate strategy. They can debate timing, scope, and long-term objectives. They can argue about history and the wisdom of this or that action. But elected American leaders should take as a given that we in the United States are the good guys, and our enemies who try to kill us are the bad guys. Anything less is a betrayal of their basic duties and responsibilities to the people who elected them.

Here;  Democrats’ Disgraceful Moral Equivalence on Iran

If Jesus tarries, I really wonder HOW LONG are we going to pretend to get along with each other?  Most families I know, including my own, are divided.  It's not over tax policy or deficit spending.  No, it's over world views of the godless vs. worldviews of the God-fearing.  Half the country believes that America is about the best country that the world has seen and we should be proud of it.  The other half has begun to loathe America.  If we were a married couple we should probably be discussing an amicable divorce before things get really ugly.

Today is Purim, When Jews Celebrate Deliverance from Anti-Semitism

 It's kind of interesting that the book of Esther is about how queen Esther won the favor of an Iranian (Persian) king and ended up turning the tables on Haman the Agagite.  The Jews celebrate this day with what they call Purim.  Purim started last night and goes through today and even some of tomorrow.  Remember how the Jewish calendar is lunar and so a new day starts at sunset of the old day.

Haman was a descendant of the Amalekites and the Amalekites were said to have Nephilim roots in them.  So we can understand that anti-semitism is actually Satanic at it's roots.  When God CHOSE the Jews to deliver His Word and the Messiah who would crush Satan's head, Satan started on a full scale open war against the Jews and has employed all sorts of tactics to try and rid the world of them.

If there are no Jews, then there will be no Jews to say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" and Satan can break prophecy, show God to be a liar and stop the return of Christ.

Is it a coincidence that the people of Persia (Iran) are waving Israeli flags and American flags in the streets of Iran and around the world wherever the Persians have gathered?  On the day of Purim?

USA and Israel gave the Iranians (Persians) a wonderful gift in freeing them from some of the biggest anti-Semites on the planet, the Ayatollah and 40 of his top leaders.

Pray for Iran.  There are millions of Christians there who have come to Christ because of dreams and visions.  The forces of Satan are not happy when they are faced with losing territory.  Pray for Trump and his team and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

The Big Bad Witch is Dead! Now Who Will Lead Iran?

USA and Israel have complete control of the Iranian skies.  Ayatollah and at least 40 top leaders are dead. 40,000 Iranian protesters were killed by the regime 7 weeks ago.  Celebrations are happening all over Iran and all over the world, led by Iranians who escaped the brutal Islamic regime.

But will peace and democracy sweep over Iran?  Or will the demons of Islam come crawling out from under every rock and say, “we aren’t going down in Iran without taking everybody down!”

Remember that there are millions of new Christians in Iran.  Jesus has appeared to a lot of them in dreams and visions.  So let’s pray continuously for these people.  This is mainly a spiritual battle.

USA and Israel gave the Iranians a chance to rise up and put together a free government, but there is no guarantee that will happen.

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 DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) - The assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneihas plunged the Islamic Republic into its most perilous crisis since the 1979 revolution - confronting it with war on its own territory, an unresolved succession, and mounting internal strain.

Despite the shock of Khamenei's killing, five regional officials and analysts cautioned against assuming rapid collapse. Iran's political order, they said, was deliberately constructed to avoid reliance on a single leader, dispersing authority across clerical institutions, the security apparatus and power networks.

"The Iranian system is bigger than one man - removing Khamenei could harden the regime rather than weaken it," said Danny Citrinowicz of the Atlantic Council.

"Iran was built to survive the loss of a leader," added Ali Hashem, a research affiliate at Royal Holloway, University of London. "The danger is not a vacuum. It's whether war and pressure push the system past the point where that resilience holds."

At the centre of that resilience is the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), long regarded as Iran's true centre of gravity. The balance of power now hinges on whether the Guards emerge weakened by battlefield losses and internal frictions - or more entrenched, closing ranks around a harder, more security-driven approach to governance.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/khamenei-killing-shatters-irans-order-triggers-high-stakes-succession-race-2026-03-01/

America and Israel Striking Iran Right Now

 If you haven’t heard, you soon will.  Liberal heads will explode…again.  Trump warned Iran that if they failed to negotiate their nuke program and kept killing thousands of protesters, America would be left with no choice but to use force.  Today is that day.

Trump said, “For decades Iranian leaders have chanted ‘death to America!  Death to Israel’, those days are over.”

Love it!

How might this affect Ezekiel 38?

No change.  The prophecy says that Iran, Russia, Turkey and others will make a plan to attack “an unsuspecting people”.  They will be seeking “plunder and loot”of Israeli wealth.

Israel is far from being unsuspecting so we believe this will happen AFTER the rapture and after the Antichrist makes a peace agreement with Israel and its enemies.

The rapture will turn the world on its ear.  Events will change very, very fast.

Minnesota; Marxist Matrix

 We just saw this post from Jan Markell and it helps to explain why the lunacy and delusion seems to be concentrated in Minneapolis and other parts of Minnesota.

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Minnesota: The Marxist Matrix

As you know, I have lived in Minneapolis all my life, and have watched it transform. The American Communist Partytargeted the area, as well as Chicago and large cities in Wisconsin, 100 years ago, making Minnesota the Marxist Matrix of America.

We are in constant turmoil: George Floyd, Covid lunacy, America’s abortion destination, Annunciation school shooting, Somali fraud capital of America, and much more. We are the land of 10,000 lakes, regulations, and terrorists. Most of our churches are nothing but cathedrals of social justice.

No one is safe because our police force has been stripped to the bare bones. Our politicians spew such nonsense they reveal themselves to be leftist lunatics caught up in strong delusion. Gov. Waltz has more loyalty to Communist China than Minnesota or America.

Pray for the many wonderful believers here and the handful of pulpits telling the truth. – Jan Markell

How to Be Ready for the Rapture

 It's our blessed hope!  Jesus will come in the clouds with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet call of God.  The people who already died will have their new bodies come out of the ground and exchange them for new bodies like the one Jesus has.  Those bodies will be then be inhabited with the souls that returned with Jesus.  Next, those people who are alive on earth and have the Holy Spirit indwelling them will be transformed in a twinkle and join Christ in the clouds and be with him forever.  Encourage each other with these words.

How can one prepare to be raptured up to Heaven and so be with Jesus Christ forevermore?

When it comes to the Rapture, it’s often said that a person must prepare, and so, “Be ready!” This saying is implied by Jesus Himself, who said in Luke 21:28, “Now when these things begin to happen…” (“things” meaning when the signs of the end times begin to occur), then “look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” In other words, Jesus was commanding His followers to “Be ready!” because He will indeed return, and when He does, look up because His return will be swift.

Society has been looking warily at the signs of the end times Jesus gave in Matthew 24 and Luke 21: false prophets and messiahs, plagues and diseases, shattering earthquakes, fearful socio-economic events, wars and rumors of wars, surprising signs in the sky, and many more. All these signs Jesus mentioned would mark the time leading up to His return. Well, they are inarguably happening today, and in greater frequency and intensity, just like birth pangs.

Then there’s what’s known as the “super sign”—the sign of the fig tree. When Israel, symbolized as a fig tree, rebudded and became a nation once more, then that would be the generation that would see the return of Jesus Christ. Israel did indeed become a nation once more in May 1948. The fig tree has rebudded, indicating that the world now finds itself living in the final days leading up to Christ’s return.

Since all these end-time signs Jesus laid out are happening in this day and age, we can be certain that our Lord is coming soon. And, because He’s coming soon, we need to “Be ready!”

What One Must Do to Be Ready

Knowing Christ’s return is imminent, we each must ask this question: “What must I do to be ready?” Jesus answered this question in Luke 21:34-36.

“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

In this passage, Jesus gave us five things to do to “Be ready!” for His return in the clouds to rapture the Church up to Heaven.

Number one is to avoid sinning. If you are a Christian, then you obviously should be living a holy life as an ambassador of our Savior. So, avoid sinning at all costs.

And, if you have yet to have placed your faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior, then you’re continuing to live a life of sin, and that means you are nowhere ready for when the Lord returns. Why is that? Because being prepared for the Lord’s return requires having accepted Jesus as one’s Savior. “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36). But, once saved, your sins will be forgiven and forgotten, and you can stand before God blameless and holy, no longer abiding under His great wrath.

Number two is to keep watching. Jesus commands us to look out for His return. You’ll hear some people ignorantly claim that Bible prophecy is all nonsense. And yet, Jesus Himself has said that when we see these signs of the end times, then keep watch. Therefore, Jesus wants us to expectantly watch for His return.

Number three points out that since we are living in evil times, we should pray to escape evil. Pray for the Lord to protect you, your family, your church, your friends, and your nation. We need all the protection we can get living in these dark days.

Number four, put your hope in the fact that Jesus is returning. Jesus will rapture all those who believe in Him as Savior, taking them all up to Heaven before He pours His terrible wrath and judgment upon the world for its continued rebellion. The Rapture is what’s called our “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13). Knowing that Christians will not have to face the worst period in all human history—the Tribulation—is meant to provide us hope for today. So, grab hold of that hope!

But how does one grab hold of that hope? Number five, accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. If you have not yet accepted Jesus as your Savior, then in faith and repentance, pray from your heart. Express your belief that Jesus is the Son of God and acknowledge that He died for your sins, then beat death by resurrection from the grave. When you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, He will forgive you of your sins, your guilt will be swept away, and you will inherit eternal life with your Heavenly Father forever.

So, how can one “Be ready!” for Christ’s return? In summary: avoid sinning, keep watching, pray to escape evil, hope for the Rapture, and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. If you do these five things, then you will indeed “Be ready!” for the Rapture.

Here;  How to ‘Be Ready!’ for the Rapture :: By Dr. Nathan E. Jones - Rapture Ready

Western World Willfully Forgets; Our Foundational Rights Come From the Bible

 In a recent debate with a liberal, the topic was whether or not America was founded by “Christians”, using Judeo-Christian values and principles.  He argued it wasn’t because if they were Christians they would have made slavery illegal from the first day and wouldn’t have built a system of white supremacy that allowed for a wealthy country to be born off the backs of black slaves.  For sure I had my work cut out for me to try and dismantle his thinking.  And sometimes you need to just wipe the dust off our sandals and move on because you will never dent their false worldview.  

It's a fact that when you start to see the world through a Biblical worldview, you will likely be a polar opposite from those who believe that we evolved from rocks and pond scum and that people are basically good.  "None are good, not even one."

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Consider how many of God’s greatest gifts to humanity flowed through the pipeline of Israel. Western civilization goes hand in hand with Judeo-Christian values. Many others also helped create the culture we now enjoy, including the Greeks and the Romans. But ultimately, the best part of the civilization built and bequeathed to us by our ancestors, rests on the shoulders of Abraham, Moses, and, most of all, Jesus. 

The idea of human rights and the dignity of each person did not originate with the Declaration of Independence, the Renaissance, the Magna Carta, or the Cyrus Cylinder. The foundation of our rights comes from our ancestors’ belief in Genesis 1:27. “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

All those who care about the kind of culture we live in — about our freedoms, our rights, and our amazing progress — should take this seriously. When we see each other as made-in-the-image-of-God special, it demands law and freedom, dignity and responsibility. 

The thing we call “Western civilization” is not perfect. But from the standpoint of human rights and the prosperity of all, it has been a stunning success over that which went before it. When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at the February 2026 Munich Security Conference, he said, “We are part of one civilization — Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.”

At the same conference, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belittled the Secretary’s speech as a “pure appeal to ‘Western culture.’” She used air quotes when she said “Western culture” as if it is either not real or not important. But that culture — that Judeo-Christian culture — serves as the protector of human rights and dignity. 

And it comes from the Bible. Genesis 1:27 serves as the great dignifier and the great equalizer of humanity. We must treat one another as special because, though fallen from the state in which He made us, we each still carry the vestige of God’s image.

Jesus reinforced and magnified the idea of human consequence when He said in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” God created us in His image. And He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that we could have everlasting life. Another Jew, the Apostle Paul, wrote in Romans 5:8, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Even those who do not believe these statements need to know that our rights and freedoms flow from them. Getting away from them is not progress for the West, but death. Humans are special because we were made by God in His own image and, though we are not as He originally made us, He created a way for each of us to return to Him. 

Because this isn’t heaven, we can certainly improve Western civilization. But in the name of improvement, millions seem intent on its destruction. To make a broken car run again, it helps if the mechanic understands what made it run in the first place. To repair and improve Western civilization, we need to appreciate it, see its beauty, and understand the Source of that beauty.

https://harbingersdaily.com/much-western-world-willfully-forgets-the-foundation-of-our-rights-come-from-the-bible/