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Putin: US ‘needs to stop supplying weapons’ to Ukraine and urge Kyiv to hold peace talks

EuroNews February 9, 2024

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The West will never succeed in inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia in Ukraine, the Russian president warned. Vladimir Putin has told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Washington should recognise Moscow’s interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks. Thursday night’s interview is the first time Putin has sat down with a Western journalist since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Most of the interview focused on Ukraine, where the war is nearing the two-year mark. Putin pointed at Zelenskyy‘s refusal to conduct talks with the Kremlin.  He argued it’s up to Washington to stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and convince Kyiv – which he called a US “satellite” – to sit down for negotiations.

“We have never refused negotiations,”

Putin said.

“You should tell the current Ukrainian leadership to stop and come to a negotiating table.”

Putin warned the West would never succeed in inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia and rejected allegations that Russia was harbouring plans to attack Poland or other NATO countries.

Comment

Putin wants to get a peace deal on his own terms with Ukraine. He has said that the West will never defeat Russia in Ukraine. He is right on that point – Putin is prepared to go to any lengths to come out of the war with some territorial gain. However, he also doesn’t want the war to continue forever. Therefore Putin speaks of making some peace agreement. It is highly possible that this will happen at some point. We know that Russia one day will invade Israel. It is unlikely to do so if a large percentage of its army is tied up fighting a war in Ukraine. Therefore the most likely scenario is some negotiated truce, or stalemate or forced agreement. But what would bring this about? The Bible says Gog will use devastating force to succeed. Putin is able to do this…

Bible quote

He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount of destruction and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful leaders and devastate the holy people. (Daniel 8:24 NLT)

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Putin affirms ‘unwavering support for the Palestinians’

Israel National News, July 2, 2023

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Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on Saturday (July 1), discussing the latest developments and ways to boost bilateral ties, the Xinhua news agency reported. During the phone call, Putin extended Eid al-Adha greetings and wishes to Abbas and the Palestinian people, the report said.

Being briefed on the latest developments of the Palestinian ArabIsraeli conflict, Putin affirmed Russia‘s

“unwavering support for the Palestinian people in achieving their aspirations for freedom and independence by establishing an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

Abbas, for his part, expressed his keenness to restore stability to Russia and wished the country further progress and prosperity. Putin has in the past expressed a desire to host an Israeli-Palestinian Arab summit to revive the stalled peace talks between the sides, but nothing has materialized yet in this regard.

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Mahmoud Abbas the Palestinian Authority chairman has regular meetings with Putin. Last October he met Putin urging Russia to take an active role in resolving the conflict with Israel. He told Putin he mistrusted Washington and wanted Putin to take a greater lead in negotiations.

Abbas said he was “completely satisfied” with Russia’s position towards the Palestinian Arab people. This week they have spoken again and once more Putin has said the Palestinians have his full backing and that he sees east Jerusalem as becoming a future capital for them. In Ezekiel 38 we read that

“after many day thou [Gog] shall be visited.”

The word ”visited” means

“sought after, needed, required.”

Putin has been visited and is being sought after to get involved with Israel….

Bible Quote

After many days thou [Gog] shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.  (Ezekiel 38:8)

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  4. Signs of the times – “Gaza – once more a flashpoint”

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New Iranian and Hizballah bases south of Damascus

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Logo of the Hezbollah.svgTwo new military centers are under construction south of Damascus by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Hizballah, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. They are designed to consolidate their access to Lebanon and the Golan.

Satellite and Western intelligence have recorded the new projects. Acting for Iran, the Imam Hussein Brigades, an Iraqi militia assigned by the IRGC to the Damascus region, began in mid-June building a string of bases in the Khan al-Shih district. Twenty kilometers away, Hizballah has been constructing on the large tract of land it occupies another network of military facilities south of the Syrian air force’s Mezzeh Military Airport. All this construction work is designed to bring Iran’s military and its proxies closer to the Israeli border, the Golan and Lebanon. The Iraqi militia is focusing its effort on new military staff headquarters and hangars for storing weapons and ammo not far from its own bases at Zaynab, where Iran has established its main command center in Syria.

Comment

This report in Debkafile (an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem) brings together a number of key themes in the Bible in relation to the initial inner ring war. This war that precedes the Gogian invasion is a conflict between Israel and her immediate, surrounding neighbours as detailed in Psalm 83, Isaiah 17 and Zechariah 12.

Piecing the puzzle together we can see the likes of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Palestinians etc launching a coordinated assault on Israel especially in the north. Syria is also involved and Damascus in this war is completely destroyed. Iran is the nation behind this war as it funds and directs all elements of the inner ring war. A great void is left in the Middle East with the demise of Syria. Gog descends into that void…

Bible quote

A prophecy against Damascus:

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.  The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; (Isaiah 17:1-2 NIV)

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Vladimir Putin’s war has exploded into Sudan

Daily Telegraph, April 16, 2023: event:

With more than 50 civilians and many more military killed already in the power struggle between rival governing factions that erupted in Sudan over the weekend, there is no good side in this battle. But as with so many other conflicts in Africa and the Middle East in recent years, one thing we do know is that Russian troublemakers are not far from the action. The fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country was triggered by clashes between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese armed forces, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, or “Hemedti” for short. Hemedti is commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Rather unsurprisingly, the RSF has been linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner GroupPutin’s de facto private army. Wagner is believed to have been brought into Sudan by Bashir to help shore up his faltering regime in 2017, following a meeting with Putin in which Bashir promised to make the country Russia’s “key to Africa”

Comment

If you look on a map you will see there is Sudan as a nation and a South Sudan. The country split in two in 2011. “North” Sudan is mainly Islamic whilst the South is mainly Christian. Putin is heavily invested in North Sudan. He wants a port on the Red Sea and is using his private army (Wagner Group) to get hold of Sudan’s gold mines. Russia’s alignment to Sudan is foretold in Ezekiel 38. The AV translates a place called “Cush” in the Hebrew as Ethiopia. Cush isn’t really Ethiopia. Cush at the time of Ezekiel corresponds almost exactly to Sudan. Or to be even more accurate North Sudan. From 1070 BC to AD350 the area we now know as North Sudan was called the Kingdom of Kush. Kush = Cush = Sudan. Cush will be one of the nations joining forces with Gog…

And I will turn thee [Gog] back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:  Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Almost all versions translate Ethiopia as Cush (Ezekiel 38:4-5)

Andy Walton

Weekly World Watch Apr 16th – 29th 2023

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  4. Going to the end of 2022 having to see an ongoing invasion
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  6. Signs of the Times – A boost for Israel
  7. A year of courage, caring, pain, hope, endurance and above all a year of unity (1)
  8. Ukraine What we know on day 383 and day 384 of the invasion
  9. No one, not even Putin, knows how this war will end
  10. 2023 March 14 Ukraine update
  11. Begin April 2023 Russia and Kremlin actions
  12. The Developments for the second half of April
  13. Evacuation from Sudan
  14. Rai al-Youm: The proxy war in Sudan
  15. Asharq Al-Awsat: If the Sudanese Had the Means to Escape
  16. The Developments for the second half of April

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Preachers belonging to the Whore of Babylon calling Judeo-Christians the anti-Christ

Preachers giving false ideas

On the net, we do find lots of people who claim to be Christian but belong to the Whore of Babylon, according to the Scriptures.

Fritz Berggren writes about the real Bride and a False Bride (the Great Whore).

Too many “Christians” — Judeo-Christians —have joined themselves to the wrong body.Like Eve, they are deceived. {The False Bride (the Great Whore)}

The writer of the site Christian Nations notices

This is the False Wife, the Whore of Babylon who believes she cannot be touched and falsely claims to be the Bride, the Chosen people,  when in fact she is the whore who sits on many waters (is in many nations) {The False Bride (the Great Whore)}

When we look around us, everywhere we can see and hear people who claim to be Christian, but who do not follow the teachings of Christ Jesus and do not worship the God of Jesus, but have made Jesus and other human beings in their gods.

For him

The False Wife is like those call call themselves Jews, but are not, and are rather of the synagogue of Satan. {The False Bride (the Great Whore)}

by which we do hope he sees those Christians who are not Jews but call themselves Messianic, though do not worship the God of the Messiah, nor God of the Jews, because those Messianics worship the Trinity. We have the impression Berggren does not see the difference between the Messianic Gentiles, Trinitarians who call themselves Messianics, Jews who call themselves Messianics, Jews for Jesus and Jeshuaists.

On the other hand, we do hope he does not have it about the Messianic Jews who do not adhere the false doctrine of the Trinity or does not point the finger to the Jeshuaist Jews, who are Jews who accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah.

Strangely he writes

the Great Whore of Babylon, the harlot, the antiChrist, those who murdered Jesus Christ

as if it were the Jews who killed the Jew, Jesus.

and those who persecute His Church, those who call themselves Jews (but lie) are all manifestations of their true father Satan, who was a liar and deceiver from the Beginning. {The False Bride (the Great Whore)}

Giving with that last bit the impression he really has it about the Jews who came to accept Jesus as their saviour. He seems to live in the same sort of groups which are indentified by the Bible messages as the Whore of Babylon, like the Roman Catholic Church.

We are also living in a time the Bible spoke about, when we would come to see a drying up of support for Christendom and/or Christianity, along with other religions, in our day.

“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” (Re 16:12 KJ21)

“And he saith unto me, “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples and multitudes, and nations and tongues.” (Re 17:15 KJ21)

The King of the North or Gog has started the invasion of Ukraine. But the Scriptures also foresaw that some would abandon false religion not merely because of dissatisfaction or disillusionment but because of a positive purpose. Them leaving the main churches let those who belong to the Whore being angrier. The of away church members makes those churches rise and go even more against those who worship the True God. The Bible prophetically urges:

“Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins.” (Revelation 18:4)

Getting out of “her” refers to the Biblical symbolic religious whore, “Babylon the Great,” which embraces all the religions of the world, including those of modern Christendom. The “my people” are sincere seekers of truth who leave Babylon the Great because they want to serve God in the way Jesus taught. Christendom has strayed so far from true Christianity that sincere people must get out in order to serve God acceptably.

Though in Fritz Berggren his introduction page the author of that blog seems to be an American who has everything against what smells like a social entourage, or the friendship and peace Christ taught. As such, he considers Marxism, socialism, social justice progressivism to be more than a faith. He writes

it is a hard core religion; it demands total, faith, submission and obedience. It is worse than wrong — it is evil. It dehumanizes those within it. {About}

clearly not seeing that the Nazarene Jesus was a communist avant la lettre.

We do not have any idea where he gets it from that

The Left has a faith. Part of their faith is to deny that it is a faith. They claim their thoughts are “scientific,” and based on “material” facts. But it is neither scientific nor materialist except when it is convenient for them. {About}

That saying betrays his conservative fundamentalist beliefs that give no room for the social attitudes Jesus observed. Politics are not a faith or religion. There might be political parties that demand total, faith, submission and obedience, but that is not so by Marxists or several leftish groups. That is why there is so much variety in Left Wing groups.

He does not explain why his argument would be right, when he consider such people and their believes

worse than wrong — it is evil. It dehumanizes those within it. {About}

That Marxists would dehumanise people is just the opposite what they do. For a Marxist has the person to come in the first place, and not the material, like we see happening so much by the Capitalists.

We notice that in the United States of America there are a lot of very conservative Christians who hate everything that brings something social to the foreground. They do not want to share anything with others. Unlike a Christian should be open to help others, they are not willing to pay for the sick and the poor. Christians who dare to ask to be more social, are then called ‘Communist’ and shunned, being seen as the anti-Christ or devil.

It looks like the writer of the above-mentioned blog wants to see bloodshed, instead, like any Christian should do, aiming for peace, and avoiding bloodshed. But he writes

Blood is primary. Without blood there is no present, past or future. There are no ancestors, no self, no progeny. {About}

For him, the left being against bloodshed and against killing people, even when they have murdered someone, makes him say

The goal of the Left is to destroy blood and faith so that (Marxist) religion alone becomes master and enslaver of all. {About}

which is strange, because most left people want nobody to be a slave of one another. The Communists and Marxists as well as the Socialists are continuously fighting against modern slavery. They are aiming for equality under all people, no matter what sort of culture, race, colour or sex. Fritz Berggren not seeing this, probably because he is so breath in the American Capitalist culture he is blind for reality and probably places himself before all others, calling on the so-called amendments and free rights, not willing to give freedom to others (like asylum seekers, handicapped etc.). The American healthcare system, and how Trumpists and American evangelists are against ObamaCare and other social measures, says it all

He wonders

Why do many Christian hide their name and face on social media? {Anonymity and the Christian}

The problem is there are many name-Christians, people who say they are Christian, but often do not believe in God or have Jesus as their god. It are people who prefer to walk after the flesh instead after the spirit. The majority who call themselves Christian are really not worthy partakers of the Body of Christ. It is mostly people who do not let themselves be guided by the Hand of God, nor by the Word of God, but stick to the human traditions of Church fathers and continued false teachings. They forget that the righteous man runs into the Tower of God and follows the Jewish master teacher Jeshua ben Josef, Jesus Christ from Nazareth.is safe. It are people who might be thirsty but do not go to the Spring of living water.

The blog writer thinks

Nothing has changed in two thousand years, same tactics, same enemy, same self-righteous hypocrisy of the New Pharisees like the ADL — those who call themselves Jews but lie, and are of the synagogue of Satan. {Anonymity and the Christian}

ADL logo (2018) cropped.svgWe do not know if with ADL he means the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the international Jewish non-governmental organisation based in the United States specializing in civil rights law. They not being a religious organisation as such, but certainly no church. But here we can see why the writer is so much against that non-profit organisation, becaus they too try to take up one of those social teachings of Jesus.

The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens. {“Our Mission”. Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2019.}

He does not want to believe that many Christian claim to want genuine New Testament Christianity as revealed in the book of Acts. He thinks he does not live in a free country any more. He claims that he served his country, which according him is taking over by the church, the children of Satan, who are evil. In one of his podcasts he agrees that all those standard established American churches reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ to the scope of the anti-christ.

He wrongly says that

It was Jesus Christ who gave us the Ten Commandments, He is One with the Father and is the Creator. {Sunday: The Ten Commandments and Christian Nations}

Saying this he goes in against the sayings of God that there is only One God and taht Jesus is His beloved son. Telling people that Jesus gave the ten commandments whilst he himself does not keep to those commandments is making him an anti-Christ and an anti-God. He should know that

The Then Commandments are eternal; {Sunday: The Ten Commandments and Christian Nations}

and that they should also be the foundation of Christian Nations.

He, in one of his podcast, says that when one wsays to be a Christian, that means you have to swear leageons by the words of Jesus Christ. So why does he not keep to the words of Jesus Christ, we wonder, when he is so against Judeo Christians and Christians who do not wordhip like him that threeheaded god?

In that American PhD writer’s attack, we can very well notice how he wildly rants against those who do not adhere to the Trinity doctrine. As an anti-Christ, he goes wild, or rants, like a lion and wants others to believe that those true followers of Jesus are the evildoers in this world. According to him, they are devils when in reality they are children of God and follow the teachings of Jesus.

Let us be fully aware that there have been and still shall come many deceivers who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. They say God has come into the flesh, instead of believing that God provided His beloved son and accepted his ransom offer. The majority of churches we see today, as well as the church where that writer seems to belong to, do not keep to the doctrine of Christ, but prefer to keep to the human traditions and false teachings.

“7  For many deceivers have entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we may receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son. 10  If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed; 11 for he that biddeth him Godspeed is a partaker of his evil deeds.” (2Jo 1:7-11 KJ21)

Therefore let us be aware what others say about those who want to be in and with Christ. Coming closer to the endtimes we see how many raise their voice against the true followers of Christ. We should not be sad, but rejoice, because true Christianity is alive and flourishing all around the globe. All over the world we can find true followers of Jesus Christ, who worship the Only One true God.  In spite of their imperfections, those non-trinitarian Christians, Judeo Christians and Jeshuaists are following Christ’s teachings and practices.

In case you believe that Jesus is the son of God, the sent one from God, who came to liberate you from the chains of this world, let yourself not be captivated by those who are calling you an anti-Christ, because most of the time they are the ones who are the anti-Christ, or belong to an anti-Christ cult the ones warned for in the Scriptures.

You are not expected simply to accept that assertion. Why not examine the beliefs of those who really follow Christ, them being Brothers in Christ or Christadelphians or Jeshuaists, in the light of the Bible, and see for yourself. Learn from God’s Word the Christianity of Jesus’ apostles, as opposed to what Christendom’s churches have taught and practiced for centuries. This will, as the apostle Paul explained, bring you benefits for “the life now and that which is to come.”

“For bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” (1Ti 4:8 KJ21)

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A Theology of Culture War Christianity

Culture War Christianity in American history

Hitler and Christianity: Some Trends in Interpretation

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Knowing The Truth and Loving The Truth

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  1. A famous individual by the name of Jesus of Nazareth
  2. Christian in Christendom or in Christianity
  3. How adversaries of God twist the word of the Bible and want to tell about heir Jesus
  4. Not able to see Jesus working wonders
  5. Act of Faith held on February 6, 1481
  6. Growing rift between observant parents and their children
  7. American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder
  8. Fundamentalism is fertile soil for gullibility and denial of scientific fact
  9. Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #1
  10. Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #2
  11. American fundamentalists win
  12. Building Babylon the Great
  13. Only six of ten commandments of God still important to British Christians
  14. How to Save the American Church
  15. Points to rescue America
  16. For in a single hour all this great wealth …
  17. Today’s Thought “God’s servant will succeed! He will be raised up, exalted, highly honoured!” (Weekend of 2020 June 27-28)
  18. From nothingness to a growing group of followers of Jeshua 5 What’s in a name
  19. Contents of the Book of Revelation
  20. Jerusalem and a son’s kingdom
  21. This fighting world, Zionism and Israel #7
  22. From Jewish Christians to Gentiles and origin of Christianity
  23. Charles Taze Russell and what he started
  24. Evangelizing in the “Time of the End”
  25. Dark times looking like death is around the corner – but Light given to us
  26. Thought for today (January 17): Walking not after the flesh, but after the spirit
  27. Germinating small seeds, pebble-stones, small and mega churches and faith
  28. A new decade, To open the eyes to get a right view
  29. Calvin’s view on taking up the cross
  30. Relating to God is it possible
  31. How do people want to grow and come closer to the Real God
  32. Tri-union gods and Pagan, Christian, Muslim and Jewish views on the Creator God
  33. Trinitarians making their proof for existence of God look ridiculous #3
  34. From those preaching the Gospel and Baptism in Jesus name
  35. Difference between a Messianic Gentile, a Messianic Jew and a Christian
  36. Jews and Christians against Messianics and Jeshuaists
  37. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
  38. Religious people and painful absence of spring of living water
  39. How should we worship God? #14 True worship
  40. Our openness to being approachable
  41. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
  42. Worthy partakers of the body of Christ
  43. Not trying to make the heathen live like Jews #1
  44. Not trying to make the heathen live like Jews #2
  45. Being a follower of the true Jesus or as a Christadelphian being a Jeshuaist
  46. Troubles testing your faith and giving you patience and good prospects
  47. After 2,000 UK Church Buildings Close, New Church Plants Get Creative
  48. Small churches of the few Christadelphians

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Liz Truss: We may support a tribunal to try Putin over war in Ukraine

Event

The UK is considering supporting a special international tribunal to try President Putin for the war in Ukraine, Liz Truss has said. In a conversation with Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP, on Times Radio, the foreign secretary said that ministers were looking at the “most effective way” of holding Russia’s leaders to account for “appalling war crimes”. The Ukrainian government wants a special international tribunal to be established to try Putin and other members of the Russian government for the crime of aggression against Ukrainians. Asked by Goncharenko whether she would support the move, Truss replied:

“Well, we are very clear that Putin and all of those who’ve been behind the appalling war crimes that are being committed in Ukraine need to be held to account, and we’re working very closely with the ICC [International Criminal Court]. We’ve sent support into Ukraine to help collect evidence, from witness statements to video evidence.”

Comment

Britain wants Putin to be held personally accountable for the terrible conflict in Ukraine. Back in March, Dominic Raab, the UK justice secretary, pledged the “full support” of the British state to build a war crimes case against Putin and his military commanders in Ukraine. This week the UK foreign secretary has said that Britain will hold Putin to account.

The Bible says that the king of the south (US/UK) will push at Gog – the Russian ruler of Daniel 11 verse 36-39. This push is a personal provocation of the king and we see how personal it is for the UK. Britain is leading the way in pushing and provoking Putin. Britain has supplied thousands of Brimstone missiles that are destroying Russian tanks with pinpoint accuracy. Russia accuses the UK of fighting a proxy war against it. After the push the “king of the north” (Russia itself) invades Israel.

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. (Daniel 11:40)

Andy Walton

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  1. Gog
  2. King of the North
  3. Russia choose to start a war
  4. Putin’s Moves Toward War in Ukraine Show How Dangerous He Has Become
  5. Weapons of War as Fuel
  6. Majority of US weapons promised to Ukraine in February delivered

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In deze oorlogsdreigingstijden

Aangaande 14 Nisan, 5782 Erev Pesach op 15 April 2022

Gevangenschap en moeilijkheden

Over twee weken komen wij aan het belangrijkste herdenkingsmoment van het jaar. Dan denken wij aan de bevrijding van het Volk van God uit Egypte en hoe Jezus dat ook herdacht op die avond die de laatste avond met hen zou zijn voordat hij gedood zou worden.

Tijdens zijn laatste avond als mens hier op aarde, dacht Jezus aan de moeilijkheden waar zijn discipelen mee te maken zouden krijgen. Uit liefde voor zijn vrienden vroeg hij zijn Vader ‘om over hen te waken vanwege de goddeloze’ (Joh. 17:14, 15). Jezus wist dat als hij weer in de hemel was ‘Satan de Duivel‘ of de tegenstander van God,  ermee door zou gaan oorlog te voeren tegen iedereen die Jehovah wil dienen. Jehovah’s aanbidders zouden dus bescherming nodig hebben.

Een Noordelijke prins en koning

Wapenschild van de USSR.

Het geliefde wapenschild van de Koning van het Noorden. Het embleem van de Sojoez Sovjetskich Sotsialistitsjeskich Respoeblik of USSR, de Sovjet-Unie

Wij zijn nu zovele eeuwen later en die Satan gaat nog heviger te keer. Als Koning van het Noorden wil hij zijn rijk weer groot maken, en als het kan, zelfs groter dan de vroegere Sovjet-Unie. Hij moet van geen God weten, daar hij zichzelf als een god aanschouwt en dat volk dat meent het recht te kunnen  opnemen Volk van God te zijn, wil hij ten alle kosten vernietigen.

De Bijbel waarschuwt dat er een tijd zal komen dat uit het Noorden die als Hoofdprins van Meshech en Tubal of koning uit het noorden, zou opstaan en vol leugenpraat en haat zou zijn, en er niet bang voor zou zijn om alle mogelijke middelen te gebruiken om zijn slag te slaan en een grote invasie aan te vatten.

Ogen te richten op Gog van het land van Magog

‘Mensenzoon, richt je blik op Gog van het land Ma̱gog,+ het opperhoofd* van Me̱sech en Tu̱bal,+ en profeteer tegen hem.+ (Ezechiël 38:2  NWV)

Hij zal eropuit gaan om de volken aan de vier hoeken van de aarde, Gog en Ma̱gog, te misleiden om hen voor de oorlog te verzamelen. Hun aantal is als het zand van de zee. Ze rukten op over de hele aarde en omsingelden het kamp van de heiligen en de geliefde stad. Maar er kwam vuur uit de hemel dat hen verteerde.+ (Openbaring 20:8-9 NWV)

“… Hij is woedend, omdat hij weet dat hij nog maar weinig tijd heeft.’+ (Openbaring 20:12 NWV)

Uit frustratie zal die vijand van God er niet voor terugdeinzen om alle overeenkomsten die mensen hadden gesloten om menselijk te blijven, te verbreken. Wij kunnen nu zien hoe Vladimir Poetin mensenrechten schendt en verscheidene oorlogsmisdaden laat uitvoeren. Continu blijft hij beloften, waarmee hij tijd hoopt te winnen, niet nakomen en probeert hij het Westen naar zijn hand te zetten, met het besef dat zij hem nodig hebben voor hun gas en olie. En al zullen die van het Westen en het Zuiden misschien gaan uitkijken naar het Oosten, zullen de verenigde krachten van het Zuiden toch nog die van het Noorden willen wegduwen.

40 In de tijd van het einde zal de koning van het zuiden met hem in botsing komen.* De koning van het noorden zal met wagens, ruiters en veel schepen op hem afstormen. Hij zal de landen binnentrekken en er als een vloedgolf doorheen razen.(Daniël 11:40  NWV)

De koning van het Noorden zal landen binnen trekken

Maar ook al ligt zijn woonplaats ver van hen die in een verenigde Europa (de Europese Unie) wonen zal die vijand van God van zijn plaats uit de noordelijke delen komen, terwijl hij veel volk voor zijn kar zal spannen, een grote schare en een machtig leger. Op voorhand zal hij zijn manschappen en oorlogsmateriaal vergroot hebben en in paraatheid gebracht hebben. (Denk aan de opbouw rond de Oekraïense grenzen voor 24 februari 2022) nadat hij vroeger als een eerste stap tot verovering zal hebben uitgevoerd (denk aan de verovering van de Krim in 2014).

15 Je zult uit je plaats komen, uit de meest afgelegen streken van het noorden,+ jij en veel volken met jou, allemaal op paarden, een grote troepenmacht, een enorm leger.+ (Ezechiël 38:15 NWV)

Zijn eerste stappen heeft die vernoemde Gods hater gezet met Oost Oekraïne aan te vallen en in te palmen. Oost-Oekraïne maakte ooit deel uit van het oorspronkelijke grondgebied van MagogPoetin aanschouwt het dan ook als “zijn” grondgebied. Hij als Gog van Magog kijkt vermetel naar Groot-Brittannië dat deel uitmaakt van het rijk van ‘de koning van het zuiden‘ (inclusief de Verenigde Staten).

Gedetailleerde beschrijving het een toekomstig gebeuren

In Zijn Woord heeft Jehovah gedetailleerd laten beschrijven hoe het in latere tijden zou aan toe gaan en hoe mensen zich op die tijden zouden kunnen voorbereiden. Want Hij heeft beloofd dat er tekenen zouden komen die ons zouden moeten doen inzien dat “Die Tijd der tijden” is gekomen. Het is aan gelovigen om die tekenen op te merken en mensen er voor te waarschuwen.

Jezus was ook bewust dat die tijden er zouden aankomen en gaf in verscheidene parabels of gelijkenissen aan wat er zou gebeuren met mensen die zich niet hebben voorbereid op zulke tijden. Zij die er niet klaar voor zijn zullen te laat komen.
Maar hij wist ook dat het niet zo gemakkelijk zou zijn voor hen die geloven in hem en zijn hemelse Vader en voor hen die Gods Naam gebruiken.

Zij die de naam Jehovah gebruiken zullen in die eindtijd meer dan ooit Gods bescherming nodig hebben. Zij die niet in God geloven, zullen met de volgelingen van Jehovah lachen en zullen godsdienstigen ook beschuldigen van de oorzaak te zijn van alle geweld. Meerderen zullen Jehovah’s volgelingen vervolgen omdat ze anders zijn. Maar we hoeven niet bang te zijn.

De Heer is trouw, en hij zal jullie sterk maken en jullie beschermen. (2 Thess. 3:3 NWV).

Ja, Jehovah zal ons sterk maken en ons beschermen tegen de goddeloze. Maar wij moeten ons niet gaan wegsteken. Uit liefde voor onze naaste moeten wij juist kenbaar maken dat de weg naar Jehovah de allerbeste is. Ook moeten wij anderen laten zien dat het Boek der boeken, de Bijbel al de antwoorden heeft op de vragen die wij hebben rond dood en leven. Wij moeten anderen laten zien dat er weldegelijk hoop op leven is.

Met de verhalen te laten zien hoe onvolmaakte mensen met zware beproevingen omgingen, kunnen wij anderen, maar ook onszelf helpen, om deze donkere tijden door te komen. Die verhalen kunnen ons met raad bijstaan. De in het Boek der boeken opgetekende verhalen zijn daar zodat wij van hen kunnen leren. die neergeschreven teksten kunnen ons troost en hoop geven als wij die verslagen lezen. Maar om er echt voordeel van te hebben moet je meer doen dan alleen de Bijbel lezen. Laat Gods Woord je denken vormen en je hart raken

Een eerste zegen voor allen

Op 15 april zullen wij in onze woonkamers vrienden of geïnteresseerden ontvangen om samen dat laatste avondmaal van Jezus in herinnering te nemen. Wegens Corona zullen wij dit jaar weer geen grote bijeenkomst kunnen houden. Maar dat betekent daarom nog niet dat wij daarom minder goed die herdenking van dat laatste avondmaal zouden gaan vieren.

In de huiskamer of kleinere ruimte dan de Koninkrijkszaal zullen wij met onze gedachten ook bij onze broeders en zusters in Oekraïne zijn. Uitzonderlijk zullen zij tijdens die momenten van verschrikking terwijl zij hun dienst houden met hun woorden kunnen bereiken en raken. Zo zal op een bijzondere wijze God wie weet mensen tot zich laten trekken in de schuilkelders.

Daar en hier moeten wij mensen laten horen hoe Jezus op die avond, de veertiende van de eerste maand van het Joodse jaar, de mensenzoon Jezus Christus een Nieuw Verbond instelde en dat die dag bezegelde met zijn eigen bloed aan de martelpaal. Door zijn dood aan een stuk hout is het water weer gaan vloeien door de wijnranken en is leven gekomen voor alle volkeren. En dat is voor ons allen een eerste zegen die wij in dankbaarheid moeten aanvaarden en kenbaar maken aan allen rondom ons.

Nu is het hoogtijd om over die zaken te spreken. Wij moeten de mensen tot wie we het goede nieuws prediken bezien als graan dat rijp is voor de oogst. Hierbij moeten wij hen laten inzien dat alleen door Gods Woord te bestuderen men kan voorkomen dat men wordt misleid. Alleen door een grondige studie van de Heilige Schrift zal men Jehovah en Jezus goed leren kennen.

Dit betekent eeuwig leven,+ dat ze u leren kennen, de enige ware God,+ en ook degene die u hebt gestuurd, Jezus Christus.+ (Joh. 17:3 NWV).

En alleen dan zul je ervan overtuigd raken dat je de waarheid hebt. En het is niet enkel de namen kennen! Het gaat er om om voldoende over hen te weten én er in te geloven.

Zij die nu de wapens hebben getrokken om dood en vernieling te zaaien zijn zeker geen mensen waar wij op moeten vertrouwen of hopen.  Onze hoop moet gesteld worden in de wederkomst van die man wiens dood op 15 april in gedachtenis zullen nemen. Hij en Gods Woord hebben ons verzekerd dat hij zal terugkomen wanneer de tijd er rijp voor is. En als wij goed naar de tekenen der tijden kijken kan het gerust zijn dat die tijd er zal kunnen aankomen.

Wij waren eens slaven van deze wereld maar dankzij Jezus Christus zijn wij bevrijd en kan nog steeds bevrijding aan anderen aangeboden worden. Ook al mogen er donkere dagen op ons afkomen mogen deze ons niet afschrikken en moeten wij voort gaan op de weg die Jezus ons heeft voorbereid.

Laten wij in ieder geval elke dag klaar zijn voor de in de Schrift voormelde moeilijke tijden tegemoet te gaan. Wat die moeilijke tijden ook moge brengen dat wij niet stoppen om samen Gods Woord te bestuderen en verder de liefde van Jezus Christus uit te stralen via onze woorden en daden.

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Voorgaand

De oorlog die men weer kan vinden

rusteloos machteloos

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Aanvullend

  1. Weest gezond van verstand en weest waakzaam met het oog op gebeden
  2. Kwetsbaarheid en vertrouwen samen gaand
  3. De Taal van de Bijbel: De antichrist
  4. Een nutteloos maar zeer gevaarlijk uitdagingsspel
  5. Beperkingen in Rusland als gevolg van sancties van het Westen voor de vredesmissie in Oekraïne.
  6. Oproep aan regeringsleiders om eensgezind te reageren tegen Poetins regime in Moskou
  7. Zogezegd valse dodenaantallen
  8. Poetins denazificiëring in Oekraïne door de Nazistische Wagner Groep
  9. Poetin’s grote redevoering in een volgepakt Loesjniki-stadion
  10. Waakzaamheid geboden 3 Codes en een heerser van het Noorden
  11. Waakzaamheid geboden 5 Tekenen opmerkend
  12. Tekenen van de laatste dagen wanneer moeilijke tijden zullen komen
  13. Tekenen te herkennen in Tijden der Laatste dagen
  14. Toekomstverwachting nog steeds onder vuur
  15. Het niemand of niets in de duisternis
  16. Gedachte voor vandaag: Wakker blijven
  17. Waakzaamheid geboden 3 Codes en een heerser van het Noorden
  18. De nacht is ver gevorderd 18 Studie 3 Lessen uit het verleden 7 Conclusie
  19. De nacht is ver gevorderd 19 Studie 4 Wat te doen
  20. Voorbereiden op moeilijke tijden die op ons af kunnen komen
  21. Beknopte geschiedenis van de Aliyah van Russische Joden naar Israël (1881-1991)
  22. Zelensky’s toespraak voor de Knesset sloeg de plank volledig mis
  23. Dr. Visser bekijkt de eindtijd
  24. Newsweek vraagt zich af of wij nog onwetend willen houden
  25. Wordt verlicht met betrekking tot de betekenis van de tijd waarin we nu leven
  26. Fundamenten van het Geloof 14 De komst van Christus in heerlijkheid
  27. Christadelfiaanse geloofspunten #10 Uitzending om redding te verkondigen
  28. Prediken tot een ongelovige wereld
  29. Kracht en koninkrijk van onze God en de autoriteit van Zijn Christus
  30. Wat wil men zijn: Atheïst, Gelovige in wat?, Jood, Christen of nog iets anders
  31. Wanneer u een ware volger van Jezus wil zijn #5 Volgers van een godheid Jezus of navolgers van de ware Jezus
  32. Wapens van onze oorlogsvoering
  33. Wapens van de gelovige bij voortdurend geweld
  34. Samen komen in huizen
  35. Christadelfiaanse geloofspunten #13 Koninkrijk van God na vernietiging van wereldse machten gegeven aan Zijn uitverkoren zoon

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  3. Oorlog in Oekraïne
  4. Wapens
  5. Omsingeld: prefiguraties van de Russische inval in de Oekraïne
  6. Heeft het Westen liggen slapen?
  7. Geen vooruitgang na gesprek Rusland Oekraïne
  8. Belarus vanuit Oekraïne aangevallen
  9. “Rusland vraagt China om hulp”
  10. Vrouw die bord live in beeld hield krijgt een boete
  11. Mariupol: Theater met vluchtelingen gebombardeerd.
  12. Russische Leger nadert Kyiv langzaam
  13. Russen gebruiken hypersonische raket in Oekraïne.
  14. Winkelcentrum vernietigd in buitenwijk Kyiv.
  15. Russische sporters en kunstenaars moeten zich publiekelijk tegen de Russisch- Oekraïense oorlog uitspreken
  16. Trekt het Russische leger zich terug?

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Sanctions are crippling the economy of ‘Fortress Russia’

March 4, 2022

A shuttered stock market, close to default, business boycotts and a rush to the cash machines: the Russia economy is on its knees just eight days into the invasion. The scale of the looming economic collapse has clearly alarmed Russia’s business elite following a tidal wave of Western sanctions with oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin breaking cover to criticise the invasion. JPMorgan warned on Friday that the country is facing a hit as great as Russia’s 1998 financial crisis, predicting an 11pc peak-to-trough GDP plunge. The Centre for Economics and Business Research expects a 14pc hit in lost output in Russia over two years.
Oil and gas is still flowing from Russia to Europe, keeping a vital revenue source for its economy and the Kremlin intact.  But shoppers and industries, including banking, shipping, aviation and retail, are already feeling the heat as the West severs economic ties and turn Russia into a pariah state.

In just over a week Russia has suffered an economic meltdown. And worse is too come. The Economist said this week that the sanctions introduced by the US / UK / EU on the 26th February are causing “financial mayhem” in Russia causing Putin to increase Russia’s nuclear alert level. With incredible foresight, Brother John Thomas wrote these words in 1848,

“Let the Russian treasury be as empty as it is said to be, and its expenditure exceed its revenue by double the alleged deficit, it will only operate as a pressure from within, causing her autocrat [Gog], to enter into countries, and to overflow and pass over, and to enrich himself with the spoil of those he is destined to subdue.”

Ezekiel wrote

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords (Ezekiel 38:4)

The hook in the jaws is the lure of spoil in Israel (gas/oil) required by Gog to replace lost revenues in Europe…

Andy Walton

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Preceding

Looking at a “Man from the North” endangering the world

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Additional reading

  1. 2022 Political hotchpotch
  2. Ukraine Crisis Reading List
  3. Nuclear-War Risk Minimized in Rare Statement by Weapon States
  4. Putin puts Russia’s nuclear force on high alert
  5. US insight from the Independent for the first week of March 2022

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  2. Is A Third World War Likely?
  3. The end is here
  4. Is this how the End of the World begins?
  5. Kooks with nukes
  6. Nuclear War and unaskable questions
  7. When did national leadership become synonymous with global destruction?
  8. Prominent Russian Journalist Quits, Says She Fears ‘We’re On The Brink Of A Nuclear War’
  9. Should using nuclear weapons be a war crime?
  10. The World Failed To Take Adolf Hitler Seriously And Paid The Price, We Would Do Well To Take Putin Seriously And Get Prepared For Nuclear War
  11. War and prejudice
  12. NATO is dead as is our leadership
  13. Dallas Professor: American Concern About Ukraine ‘Inexorably Intertwined With Nuclear Weapons’
  14. “Close the sky!”
  15. The Letters of Last Resort
  16. I do not believe that nuclear war will take place: Russian Foreign Minister informed
  17. Rescuing the Future | Me and (I hope) you vs The Apocalypse
  18. Why we don’t want a nuclear conflict
  19. Is Russia Intentionally Losing Soldiers So That Putin Can Convince His Generals To Unleash The Nukes?
  20. What if the nuclear missiles were to hit in 20 minutes?
  21. Frida Berrigan: Worried about nuclear war? You can actually do something to prevent it
  22. Stop chattering about nuclear war!

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US bolsters Europe with 3,000 extra troops

The US is deploying an extra 3,000 troops to Germany, Poland and Romania amid fears about President Putin’s intentions as he continues to amass Russian forces around Ukraine. In his delayed phone call with the Russian president on Wednesday February 2, Boris Johnson urged Putin to stop the “current hostile activity on the Ukrainian border”. He warned that any Russian incursion would be a “tragic miscalculation”, adding that Ukraine — like all European democracies — has the right to “aspire to Nato membership”, according to a Downing Street spokesman.

“The leaders agreed that aggravation was in no one’s interest.”

The US troops are in addition to 8,500 put on standby last week. The Pentagon said they were requested by Poland and Romania, both of which have long borders with Ukraine, reflecting nervousness over Russia’s build-up amid no clear intelligence of President Putin’s plans.

The United States and Russia have both said they have no interest in fighting a war over Ukraine, yet the two nations have spent the past several weeks building up military forces and inching them closer together on the European continent. The Biden Administration had initially relied on diplomacy to resolve the deteriorating situation, but the lack of progress—and continued build-up of Russian forces—has prompted the U.S. to draw up more aggressive strategies to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Bible says that the king of the south (US/UK) will push at Gog (the king of verse 36-39 in Daniel 11). The word “push” is the Hebrew word “gore” – as in a horned animal like a goat or ram goring someone. If a goat was to “gore” you it would be extremely painful. But probably not life threatening. For this reason we see the push or the goring as a military provocation. The US sending its forces is part of the push against Putin.

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. (Daniel 11:40)

Andy Walton

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Preceding

Risk of accidental war with Russia highest in decades, general warns

A lot of talk about a war beginning soon

Boris Johnson warns Putin against Ukraine invasion

Britain warns Russia over Ukraine

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Additional reading

  1. PM warns Vladimir Putin against ‘tragic mistake’ as tensions rise with Ukraine
  2. Moscow lists demands for defusing Ukraine tensions
  3. Sings of the times – Difficult moments at the borders of Europe
  4. Putin is sabre-rattling at the West’s moment of maximum weakness
  5. Key element to the Ukrainian-Russian conflict
  6. Russian government planning a “false-flag” operation
  7. Joe Biden warns Russia could attack next month
  8. President Biden threatened to impose personal sanctions on President Putin if Russia moves to invade Ukraine
  9. Israel weighing options amid deepening Russia-Ukraine crisis
  10. A Brief Look at NATO and Russia’s Push to Reform the Old Soviet Union
  11. Wars and Rumors of War…Russia Moves into Belarus
  12. RAF jets in Russia warplane alert for second day

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Gas supplies from the Gulf may come with a catch

The small Gulf state of Qatar sits atop the world’s largest bubble of natural gas. Even so, it cannot keep all the planet’s power stations running all at the same time. President Biden will meet Emir Tamim, Qatar’s hereditary and absolute ruler who was educated in British public schools, in the White House on Monday to ask him to send more gas if President Putin cuts off supplies. Qatar, home to US central command in the Middle East and with strong historic and financial ties to Britain, has indicated it does not mind helping the West out. But it is not quite as easy as that. Qatar has no major gas pipelines and so its exports are all LNG. The tiny Gulf state is already a significant supplier of to Britain, meeting just under a tenth of the country’s needs. But whereas most of Britain’s gas comes from the North Sea and Norway, about a third of Europe’s gas and more than half of Germany’s comes from Russia.

The world is frantically looking for new gas supplies as Russia could easily turn off the taps if war breaks out. The tiny gulf Arab state Qatar has the largest gas reserves so Biden is turning to this nation for help. This is incredibly interesting with Bible in hand. We often talk about the “king of the south” being the US / UK. But these nations are NOT south of Israel. But the Bible says the “king of the south” is made up of Sheba and Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish and the young lions. Tarshish is Britain and the young lions are her offspring – the English speaking nations – US, Canada, Australia etc. Sheba and Dedan are Gulf Arab states SOUTH of Israel. The article above states that Qatar (Gulf Arab state in the area od Dedan) is home to the US central command in the Middle East. And so we see the “king of the south” powers coming together to try to counteract Gog i.e. the head of the king of the north. Events are aligning quickly….

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her young lions] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’(Ezekiel 38:13)

Andy Walton

 

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Risk of accidental war with Russia highest in decades, general warns

Britain’s most senior military officer has warned there is “a greater risk” of an accidental war with Russia now than at any time during the Cold War. In an eve of Remembrance Sunday interview with Times Radio, General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said the threat of “escalation leading to miscalculation” was “a real challenge”. The four-star general spoke as tensions were spiralling with President Putin’s regime over fears that it is preparing to invade Ukraine and the use of mass migration as a weapon. Asked whether tensions with Russia and the risk of a war were greater now than at any stage in his 44-year career, Carter said:

“Yes. When you and I were growing up, it was a bipolar world. Two blocks, the Soviet Union and the West. We’re now into a period where it’s more multipolar.”

The general said that Russia was prepared to go to any lengths to undermine western Europe and the US, including using mass migration and cutting Europe’s gas supply.

There is no doubt that things are approaching a conclusion. Russia has been preparing for conflict since Putin came to power in the year 2000. The British general is warning that accidental war with Russia now at its highest risk since the Cold War. America is also concerned about Russian intentions because recent trends carry echoes of the run-up to Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine was once part of the original territory of Magog. We know that Gog (the Russian leader) is “of the land of Magog”. It makes sense then for Putin to want to control that area – and it also makes sense he will control at the time of the end. All this leads us to the conclusion there could well be more conflict in this region – and it make come very soon….

Andy Walton

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Find also to read:

  1. “If Perestroika Fails…”: The Last Summer of the Cold War – June-July 1991.
  2. Signs of the times – “Ukraine under pressure”
  3. Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine update
  4. Andy Walton’s Weekly World Watch of October 17 – 23, 2021
  5. Crumbling European solidarity or yet another day at the office?
  6. Soldiers forcibly preventing migrants entering Poland
  7. Russia reacting to attempts to break ‘strategic parity’
  8. Britain in talks to sell missiles in first arms deal with Ukraine
  9. Middle East migrants lured into thinking Belarus would provide a gateway to Europe
  10. Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies
  11. Russian bombers fly over Belarus as border crisis deepens
  12. British troops deployed to Polish border as tensions with Russia rise
  13. Are we shambling into WWIII?
  14. Towards a Third World War or not

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Sukkoth, Gog, Magog, Armageddon, a covenant and Jerusalem

Moadim L’Simcha (Appointed Times for Joy) and Shabbat Shalom dear readers!

The joyous holiday of Sukkoth (Sukkot or Feast or Tabernacles or Feast of Booths), one of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Hebrew Bible, is observed on the Jewish calendar dates of 15-21 Tishrei and is immediately followed by the holiday of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. The final day of Sukkot is known as Hoshana Rabba (“Great Hosanna”) (In 2016 coming Monday and Tuesday) and with the eighth day should for Christians also be important, being it a day of Solemn Assembly, commemorating the completion of the annual cycle of readings from the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and being called Simḥat Torah (“Rejoicing of the Law”). .

The seventh day of the festival of Sukkot, considered to be the final day of the New Year’s Divine “judgment” in which the year’s fate is determined; in addition to the Four Kinds taken on the preceding days of Sukkot, an additional willow is taken on this day; it is customary to stay up all night on the eve of Hoshanah Rabbah and study Torah.

During the week long festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the regular Parasha (Torah portion) for Shabbat is suspended, and a special Parasha pertaining to the holiday is read in synagogues around the world.

Readings for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot
Exodus 33:12–34:26; Ezekiel 38:18–39:16; Revelation 21:1–22:21

For lovers of God the Jewish reading for today is one which should concern all, being aware of the importance of the covenant made by the Most High.

“Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.”  (Exodus 34:10)

In this special Sukkot reading, Moses asks that God’s presence would go with Israel, and God agrees. The marvellous thing about God the Divine Creator is that He loves His creation so much, that when people ask Him to be with them and to go with them, God will do that. He is there for all who want Him nearby.
Encouraged by this positive response, Moses also asks to see God’s glory.  Once again, God graciously complies with his request and invites Moses to ascend Mount Sinai with two newly hewn stone tablets so that He can re-carve the Ten Commandments. Those mitzvah or commandments were given to be a guide for mankind, so that they could build up a good relationship with their Most High Maker.
It was there on that mountain that God revealed His glory to Moses in such a fearsome spectacle of power that God had to protect Moses from being destroyed by it.
“There is a place near Me where you can stand on a rock.  When My glory passes by, I will put you in an opening in the rock.  I will cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove My hand.  You will see My back.  But My face must not be seen.”  (Exodus 33:21–23)
It’s clear that Moses, having experienced the power of the presence of God, understands that His presence is more than sufficient against any threat Israel might encounter inside or outside of the Promised Land.
This is a great prospect for God’s nation. We also know now that God promised Abraham that his seed and sons by faith, would come to live in the Holy Land. In the end all Jews, the children of Abraham, will find their Holy Nation there and find Jerusalem to be the capital of the nation of God’s people. They would be sent in exile and have to endure lots of problems throughout history, but there shall come a time when they shall be all united under God’s Kingdom. God will gather His People to their own land and the whole world shall come to know it.
The world shall have to come to hear that Israel shall be restored and that also others came to know the Law of God and shall be willing to live according the covenant also brought to them by the sent one from God, rabbi Jeshua, the son of man and son of God, who gave his life as a ransom payment for all sinners, so that all people could come back to God to be His children. He provided a new covenant, one of reconciliation.
But we should take heed, God has given a warning that terrible times shall come  over the world. The Restoration of Israel shall be challenged.
“This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, My hot anger will be aroused.”  (Ezekiel 38:18)
In the Haftarah (prophetic portion) for this Shabbat Chol Hamoed (intermediate day of the festival) of Sukkot, the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel describes an end-time scenario in which formidable armies from the north, under the leadership of Gog, will challenge the restoration of Israel.
Gog (left) and Magog, wooden effigies in the Guildhall, London

Gog (left) and Magog, wooden effigies in the Guildhall, London – Courtesy of the British Tourist Authority

Gog is a chief prince living in the land of Magog (Ezekiel 38:2).  Many scholars believe Magog refers to Russia.  The invading land of Gomer is often believed to be Germany.

Several lands in the coalition army are easily identifiable: Iran (Persia), Northern Sudan (ancient Ethiopia or Cush), Libya (Put), and Turkey (Togarmah).
Last year at this time, Russia made significant moves into the Middle East, reportedly to fight against ISIS.  Last week, however, it negotiated its first “permanent” air base in the region at Khmeimim, Syria and its naval base in Tartus, Syria will soon become “permanent” as well.
Russia also recently installed its S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system in Syria and completed the transfer of the system to Iran last month.
In effect, Russia has become a major military broker in the region.  It is right now on the doorstep of Israel, and it plans to stay.
The nations mentioned in Ezekiel 38 will unite and come upon Israel “like a cloud that covers the land” for the purpose of looting the wealth that she has amassed in what was a desolate land only seventy years ago.
Yet, God will not abandon His People.  He will utterly destroy the coalition forces of Gog so that all nations will come to know the holiness of the Lord (Ezekiel 38:18–23).
The forces that come against Israel will be so large in their day of defeat that Gog’s weaponry will provide fuel for Israel for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9).
“They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel.  And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.”  (Ezekiel 39:10)
Moreover, so many soldiers will die in this battle that it will take seven months for Israel to bury them all and cleanse their land (Ezekiel 39:12).

A man carries a Torah scroll that is protected by a silver Torah tik (case) during Sukkot at the Western Wall.

The Jews read about this end-time battle during Sukkot, because according to Rabbinic tradition, this war will be waged during the month of Tishri, the month in which the holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) falls.

Interestingly enough, the war that is described in Ezekiel is similar to the war described in the 14th chapter of Zechariah, the Haftarah reading on the first day of Sukkot.  And in Zechariah we learn that the Gentiles who survive the war against Israel will be required to keep Sukkot annually by coming up to the Holy City of Jerusalem to worship the Lord.
“Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles [Sukkot].  If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.”  (Zechariah 14:1617)
This should give us food to think about the matter of feasts and holidays we do have to partake.

Sukkot at the Western (Wailing) Wall.

 

 

Psalm 27 presents a clear connection between Sukkot and God’s protection of Israel and those who trust in Him:
“For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle [sukkah]; In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.”  (Psalm 27:5)
The word translated here as tabernacle is the Hebrew word sukkah (סכה)When evil threatens God’s people, He will hide them in His sukkah, inaccessible from the enemy on the rock of His presence.
Now that is a promise we can trust in during these last days!

 

The Battle of Armageddon

“When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison, and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — to gather them for battle.”  (Revelation 20:78)
Gog and Magog are also mentioned in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) in connection with Armageddon and the final battle between the forces of good and evil.
This war with Gog and Magog is not the same war described in Ezekiel 38 but a final end-time battle after the thousand-year reign of Jeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah).
The Son of David, Jeshua, will come again — this time as our conquering Messiah to defeat the invading forces forever.  All who have believed in their Saviour, Jeshua, will inherit eternity in God’s Kingdom of which the New Jerusalem shall be the capital of a revived Garden of Eden complete with trees of life and pure living water that will be good to eat and drink forever.

Ancient ruins atop Har Meggido in Israel

Armageddon is mentioned only once in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) in chapter 16 of the Book of Revelation.
“They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty….  Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.”  (Revelation 16:14, 16)
The word Armageddon is derived from Har Magedon (meaning mountain of Megiddo) and is mentioned many times in the Tanakh (Old Testament).
Megiddo is derived from the Hebrew word gadad, meaning to penetrate, muster troops together, perhaps even invade.
In this end-time invasion, we once again see Israel’s enemies mounting a war against Jerusalem.  This time, however, we see the spiritual forces behind the rebellion against God:
“They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.”  (Revelation 9:11)
The words Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destroyer.
And this time, God pours out on the Destroyer and all rebels the full extent of His judgment, including everlasting torment for Satan, the beast and the false prophet.
“They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city He loves.  But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.  And Satan, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.  They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (Revelation 20:910)
With an Outstretched Arm
As we read how God will hurl His fury against Gog with pestilence and with blood, floods, giant hailstones, fire and brimstone, it’s easy to see from this Haftarah portion that God is furious with those who come against the Land of Israel(Ezekiel 38:22).
In fact, there are several parallels between God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt long ago and His future deliverance of Israel from Gog in the end times.  In both, we see that God saves and rescues Israel with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm.
The phrase with a strong hand and an outstretched arm (בְּיָ֣ד חֲ֭זָקָה וּבִזְר֣וֹעַ נְטוּיָ֑ה) has special meaning in Jewish tradition.  It represents God using His power on behalf of His people.  The “arm of the Lord” also represents His salvation, which in Hebrew is Jeshua.
“You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror.”  (Jeremiah 32:21, see also Deuteronomy 4:34; 26:8; Exodus 6:6)
As Russia expands its influence in the region and neighboring nations plot to annihilate Israel, there is certainly evidence that Ezekiel 38 is on the horizon.  Yet, this Sukkot Parasha reveals that God’s Divine Sheltering Presence over Israel has not ended but will continue past the end of this age.
God is not finished with the Jewish People and Israel.  This is plainly evident when we consider how Bible Prophecy concerning Israel is being fulfilled during these end times before our very eyes.
The Brit Chadashah (New Covenant) also tells us that God’s plan to reach out to the nations through Israel did not end with the death and resurrection of Messiah, but continues to this day and will in the world to come:
“For if their casting Yeshua [Jesus] aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting Him mean?  It will be life from the dead!”  (Romans 11:15)
The Book of Romans promises that when the Jewish People come to know Jeshua, it will be like life from the dead for the world.
Before this can happen, however, they must first hear the Good News of Jeshua!
“How can they call on Him unless they believe in Him?  How can they believe in Him unless they hear about Him?  How can they hear about Him unless someone preaches to them?”  (Romans 10:14)
It is up to the followers of Jeshua to follow up the task given by this master, rabbi Jeshua. Therefore Christians, being aware that the times are coming closer, should make work of it, spreading the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God.
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With thanks to the Messianic Bible
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Additional reading

  1. Ninth of Av
  2. Festival of Freedom and persecutions
  3. Jerusalem God’s City for ever
  4. Glory of only One God Who gives His Word
  5. Vayikra after its opening word וַיִּקְרָא, which means and He called
  6. Holy land Christian exodus
  7. How do we know the coming of Jesus is very near?
  8. Armageddon, har and megiddo, an action or a place
  9. Ember and light the ransomed of Jehovah
  10. Ransom for all
  11. Jerusalem and a son’s kingdom
  12. Bringing into safety from Irak and Iran
  13. 2015 the year of ISIS
  14. This Week’s Developments in Weekly World Watch 15-21 July
  15. The promise a guarantee of something and the heir that is going to have
  16. Chemical warsite and Pushing king of the South

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Further reading

  1. Understanding the Battle of Gog and Magog
  2. Trend Update: Burden of Damascus/Russian Embassy Takes Fire, October 2016
  3. Zork Nemesis – The Forbidden Lands
  4. War is upon us!
  5. Russia, Iran, and The War with Israel
  6. The Coming War
  7. Ezekiel blog: My version of the end of the world, part I
  8. Ezekiel blog: My version of the end of the world Part II
  9. Who are the real Gog and Magog in prophecy?
  10. Less of Me
  11. “My Relationship with Jesus Christ”
  12. Trend Update: Ezekiel 38-39/Magog (Russia)/Golan Heights, Passover 2016
  13. Alliance Formation

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