Israel Report Weekly Saturday 06 November 2021
Myriad Messiahs?
06 November 2021
So many of the world's religions have their own "messianic" saviour -
Those who embrace this concept include Judaism (Mashiach), Christianity (Jesus Christ), Islam (Isa Masih), Zoroastrianism (Saoshyant), Buddhism (Maitreya), Hinduism (Kalki), Taoism (Li Hong), and Bábism (He whom God shall make manifest), and the list goes on.
The hope of a new world spiritual/political leader surges up from time to time in many civilizations. It seems to be an integral ingredient of humanities spiritual make-up.
The problem here is that they all claim an exclusivity which renders all other contenders as mere interlopers. Therefore only ONE is potentially genuine - and there the battleground stands.
How does one investigate the integrity of each claim? The only successful way is to check the history of the narrative behind each one and that is difficult to do without some genuine history and some irrefutable facts.
In that the Bible is the only repository of historical fact, mingled with prophecy, amongst all the scriptural writings of religion it is arguably the best source to begin with. Therefore let us investigate the Jewish/Christian identity known as Emmanuel, who is said to be "God with Us". Jesus Christ.
The Bible is stunningly explicit. It says, amongst many other intricate details that the Jewish/Christian Messiah;
Would be born of a woman in Bethlehem. be born of a virgin, and would come from the line of Abraham. He would be a descendant of Isaac and Jacob and an heir to King David's throne
Be called Immanuel and be rejected by his own Jewish people. He would be betrayed and crucified with criminals, his hands and feet would be pierced and then would resurrect from the dead.
Messiah would be a sacrifice for our sins and iniquities.
Many centuries later not just New Testament writers spoke of the fulfilment of these Old Testament prophecies but also many secular historians wrote of these happenings which were never refuted by the hundreds of eye-witnesses who were there at the time.
Be assured, it is entirely provable that this person is the one and only Saviour and no other source of eternal life exists. The evidence of this truth would stand in any court of law.
Tragically though, the Bible also speaks of a deceptive and false Christ who will arise in the latter days - and bring a form of Fascism to the world and rule the global populace and be worshipped in a time of much chaos and war.
He will through tyranny introduce an identification/tracking system without which no one can buy or sell ANYTHING. It will, as was done in Noah's day, alter the human genome and turn the unsuspecting into operating platforms through a device implanted in the right hand or forehead.
Because this will require allegiance to this Satanic individual and his regime all who take this technology into their bodies will be damned eternally.
Could it be possible that we have already entered the era in which this technology and man will appear? For the first time in human history all the requirements for such a horror are falling into place and are already enslaving mankind. Worse is soon to come.
This is why it is urgently essential, imperative even, to determine which "Messiah" you will look for and follow.
Says the God of Israel; "There is only one God and I am He...I know of no other". How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?
All who call on this Lord alone WILL be saved. [Romans 10;3]
At Vatican, PA’s Abbas Discusses Israeli-Arab Palestinian "Peace" with Pope...
06 November 2021
Pontiff tells the Palestinian Authority leader it’s necessary to ‘reactivate direct dialogue in order to achieve a two-state solution’....
VATICAN CITY — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held a private audience with Pope Francis on Thursday and met with top Vatican officials, who emphasized the importance of resuming peace talks with Israel.
Abbas, who has met the pontiff several times before, held talks with the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and de facto foreign minister Paul Gallagher on a trip to Rome late this week that also included a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The Vatican later said, “it was stressed that it is absolutely necessary to reactivate direct dialogue in order to achieve a two-state solution, also with the help of a more vigorous effort on the part of the international community.”
It “reiterated that Jerusalem must be recognized by all as a place of encounter and not of conflict, and that its status must preserve its identity and universal value as a Holy City for all three Abrahamic religions.”
This will be achieved through a "special internationally guaranteed status"
The Vatican recognized a non-existent “State of Palestine” in 2013. Later that year, Abbas made waves during a Christmas message when he insisted that Jesus was an [Arab] Palestinian. While Israel criticized Abbas’ remarks, church officials were strangely silent.
The problem here is this; "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, [for judgement] and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land". [Joel 3;2]
U.S. Drops Demands for Iran to Halt Ballistic Missile Development...
05 November 2021
The US has dropped demands for Iran to halt ballistic missile development and regional destabilisation aggression from the drive to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran.
This was indicated by US President Joe Biden at the G20 summit taking place last week in Rome.
He merely “pledged” that “if the US returns to the Iran nuclear agreement, it will only subsequently leave if Tehran clearly breaks the terms of the deal.”
These demands were integral to Israel’s support for the diplomatic path Biden has advocated for the resolving of the issue of a nuclear-armed Iran.
However, the European signatories of the original 2015 nuclear accord (JCPOA) hailed this pledge as the key to unlocking the diplomatic impasse reached on the Vienna track.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and the UK’s Boris Johnson stated: “We welcome President Biden’s clearly demonstrated commitment to return the US to full compliance with the JCPOA and to stay in full compliance, so long as Iran does the same.”
No wonder Tehran was suddenly accommodating and agreed to resuming negotiations next month..
Seen from Israel, the Biden administration has backtracked from its earlier acceptance of the need to restrain Iran’s regional belligerence and ballistic missiles, along with the drive for a nuclear weapon capability.
The impression gained in Tehran was of an American president who was vacillating on resorting to military action in the face of aggression.
Iran has continued to act like it is the one that will decide on the nuclear deal timeline, regularly transmitting a message that it has the upper hand in any dealings with the West.
“The White House calls for negotiations with Iran... Yet it simultaneously imposes new sanctions on Iranian individuals & entities,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian [pictured above] tweeted on Tuesday, adding that Iran is “closely examining Mr. Biden’s behaviour.”
If Iran were only spreading chaos across four countries in the region, that would be bad enough. But it also traffics in rockets, ballistic missiles, drones and precision guided munitions from Iraq and Syria to Lebanon.
Israel’s military drill this week to prepare for a possible war is evidence of the danger Iran poses.
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Thursday, as world powers are expected to hold November 29 talks in Vienna with Tehran on the renewal of the 2015 nuclear deal;
“We will not tire, we will be relentless, when we are talking about the very existence of the Jewish state, we will do what we need to do,”
“Iran poses a strategic threat to the world and an existential threat to Israel, and they ought not to be allowed to get away with it".
[For an in-depth analysis watch World News Briefing below].
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Spyware Firms.....
06 November 2021
This past week the US blacklisted Israel’s NSO and Candiru spyware firms
The US Commerce Department added the spyware firms to its Entity List along with companies from Russia and Singapore for activities contrary to the US national security or foreign policy interests.
“Their spyware’s tools were used to maliciously target government officials, journalists, business-people, activists, academics, and embassy workers…" as well as for enabling “foreign governments to conduct transnational repression,” against dissidents, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo said on Wednesday, November 3.
Nevertheless, say reliable sources, the Biden administration’s step, the first ever taken against an Israeli cyber firm, was seen as further stoking the growing discord between the Biden administration and Israel.
Israel prepares to launch giant missile-detecting balloon over north....
06 November 2021
Israel is preparing to launch a massive new balloon equipped with an advanced missile and aircraft detection system into the northern sky, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday.
The Sky Dew aerostat, [pictured above] one of the largest of its kind, was developed in a joint venture by Israel’s Missile Defence Organization and the United States’ Missile Defence Agency over the course of several years.
In recent months, the system has undergone final testing and was being prepared for operational deployment over northern Israel.
Sensors onboard the aerostat are meant to identify incoming long-range munitions; the move comes amid ongoing efforts by the Israeli Air Force to improve aerial defences
The deployment of the radar-based system, set to take place at an unspecified date shortly, comes as part of a general effort by the Israeli Air Force to improve the country’s air defenses, particularly in the north, due to the proliferation of Iranian drones and cruise missiles in the region.
The detection system, dubbed “Sky Dew,” is meant to be deployed at high altitudes in order to detect incoming long-range missiles, cruise missiles and drones, the ministry said.
ISIS assassinates senior Taliban Commander....
November 5, 2021
Senior Taliban officer Hamadallah Mokkhlis was among the 25 dead in an ISIS attack on a hospital in Kabul on Tuesday. ISIS took responsibility for the attack.
The victim was the highest-ranking officer to be killed since Taliban took over the rule of Afghanistan in August.
The Islamic State has stepped up its offensive against Taliban in recent weeks, significantly reinforced by former US-trained Afghanistan special units who have joined ISIS for the goal of overthrowing Taliban.
World News Briefing with Tom Hughes & Don Perkins 04 November 20 21