Iran can take fight beyond its borders, Khamenei says after U.S. strike, unrest

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Revolutionary Guards can take their fight beyond Iran’s borders, the supreme leader said on Friday, responding to the U.S. killing of a top general and to unrest at home over the accidental downing of an airliner. In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told […]

World leaders converge on Jerusalem

Next week’s arrival of leaders from 46 countries aims to send a powerful message against antisemitism. But will it be clouded by current events and long-standing feuds? LAHAV HARKOV JANUARY 16, 2020 21:36 They’ll start arriving on Monday. One after the other, kings, presidents, prime ministers and other leaders of 46 different countries will land […]

Police sappers called as balloon-borne bomb found in Ashdod

Police call on public to alert authorities to suspicious-looking objects and refrain from approaching them; Thursday saw bomb detonate shortly after landing in open field By TOI staff Today, 1:02 pm 0 Edit Police sappers were scrambled in the coastal city of Ashdod on Friday after an explosive device tied to a bunch of balloons […]

TIMES OF TROUBLE

Hard times are inevitable, but no matter what you’re going through, there’s only one place of true comfort. Psalm 46:2-11 (KJV)2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, …

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“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion.” Revelation 14:1

The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, “I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!” This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.” Nothing else attracted the apostle’s attention so much as the person of that Divine Being, who hath redeemed us by his blood. He is the theme of the songs of all glorified spirits and holy angels. Christian, here is joy for thee; thou hast looked, and thou …

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Iran’s top leader to lead Friday prayers at time of crisis

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader will deliver a Friday sermon in Tehran for the first time since 2012, as the Islamic Republic grapples with the fallout from the targeted killing of its top general in a U.S. airstrike and popular anger at its accidental shootdown of a passenger plane. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has […]

Iranian foreign ministry: Don’t turn plane crash into a political issue

Abbas Mousavi said Tehran had cooperated “beyond expectations” with countries whose citizens were killed in the crash. JANUARY 17, 2020 10:35 DUBAI – All countries involved in the Ukrainian airliner crash in Iran should avoid turning it into a political issue, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday. “We request all sides not to […]

Hamas: Israeli attacks stem from a place of weakness

Senior Hamas official: Israel responsible for consequences of military escalation and will pay the price. Dalit Halevi, 17/01/20 09:34 Fawzi Barhoum, a senior Hamas official and Hamas’ spokesperson, on Thursday said that Israel’s “escalation” of the military situation in Gaza is the continuation of the concentrated “attacks” against “Palestinian” terrorist organizations. In an interview with […]

Pentagon acknowledges 11 US troops were hurt in Iran missile strike

Military says soldiers airlifted to Germany and Kuwait to be treated for concussion from blasts, despite US earlier saying no troops were injured in Jan 8 attack TOI staffToday, 6:08 am The US military acknowledged Thursday that 11 soldiers were wounded in an Iranian missile strike on a US base in Iraq, despite previously saying […]

Iran’s Khamenei to deliver Friday morning sermon for first time since 2012

Iran’s leader will deliver a sermon when he is expected to throw his support behind the Revolutionary Guards after their belated admission that they downed an airliner in error. DUBAI – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will deliver a Friday prayers sermon when he is expected to throw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards […]

Waiting and Watching

By Jonathan Bretner Waiting is difficult! Whether we’re waiting for cold symptoms to subside, a job offer, or a storm in our life to end, it’s never fun waiting. It’s also not easy waiting for Jesus to take us home to heaven. Yet I know so many of you, like me, have been waiting decades for His appearing.Recently, I have been thinking about Simeon, the man who greeted the Savior in temple when His parents came to present Him to the Lord. The Holy Spirit had previously revealed to Simeon that he would not die until he had seen the …

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Messianic Prophecies and Jewish Unbelief

Messianic Prophecies and Jewish Unbelief                                       Chart by Author   What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.        Romans 3:1-2; Paul of […]

How Israel Should Fend Off the ICC

By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld January 16, 2020 The International Criminal Court, the Hague, Netherlands, photo via website of the ICC   BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,408, January 16, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague has an abysmal record. It has few convictions, yet in the 17 years of its […]

Iran’s role after Soleimani

Why is Nasrallah suddenly meddling in Iraqi politics. SETH J. FRANTZMAN JANUARY 16, 2020 21:57 Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah has increased his stature in the region following the deaths of Iranian Republican Guard Corps Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. He is so sure of himself he has begun commenting about […]