Happy New Year 2022

Happy New Year everyone.  Sorry for the lack of updates on this website, however we are still very active on our Twitter account, so please feel free to join in discussion with us there.  We have not completely  abandoned this platform, and of course if world events or the Lord leads we have this space available to us to report the news or write down our thoughts.

Hope you have a blessed new year.

the70thweek

Obama to back Palestinian state at Security Council

If this report turns out to be true, then we are truly close to seeing the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in our lifetime.

If the formation of a Palestinian State is forced on the nation of Israel via U.N. Security Council Mandate as the article below describes, and then after a period of time (maybe 3 1/2 years?) this Mandate is enforced militarily by the international community, this would then create in my very humble opinion the exact scenario that the Prophet Joel wrote about and that Jesus spoke of in the books of Matthew and Luke.  This UN Mandate would require the division of Israel to allow for the new State of Palestine, and this would be a perfect setup for the fulfillment of end time events that are described in the Bible.

Please consider.

Joel 3:1-2

1. "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2. I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.

Luke 21:20-22

20.	"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
21.	"Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;
22.	because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

Mathew 24:15-16

15.	"Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16.	then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Heads up, it's coming.

Obama to back Palestinian state at Security Council – payback for Israel’s right-wing cabinet.

DEBKAfile reports exclusively from Washington: US President Barack Obama did not wait for Binyamin Netanyahu to finish building his new government coalition by its deadline at midnight Wednesday, May 6, before going into action to pay him back for forming a right-wing cabinet minus any moderate figure for resuming negotiations with the Palestinians.

Banking on Netanyahu’s assertion while campaigning for re-election that there would be no Palestinian state during his term in office, Obama is reported exclusively by our sources to have given the hitherto withheld green light to European governments to file a UN Security Council motion proclaiming an independent Palestinian state. Although Netanyahu left the foreign affairs portfolio in his charge and available to be filled by a suitably moderate figure as per the White House’s expectations did not satisfy the US President.
The White House is confident that, with the US voting in favor, the motion will be passed by an overwhelming majority and therefore be binding on the Israeli government......

....To show the administration was in earnest, senior US officials sat down with their French counterparts in Paris last week to sketch out the general outline of this motion. According to our sources, they began addressing such questions as the area of the Palestinian state, its borders, security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians and whether or not to set a hard-and-fast timeline for implementation, or phrase the resolution as  a general declaration of intent.

For more go.here.

Stay Tuned

Curt

Nebuchadnezzar's dream image in a new light...

A Stone cut without hands destroys all stones that were fashioned to form the image of a Man…

Acts 4:10-12 - ¹⁰ let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. ¹¹ He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone. ¹² And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

Daniel 2:34 – A stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

There are some who are trying to convince you that the way to God and the way to please God is by going back and keeping all of the Old Testament commandments…  Or they say…  Try as best as you can to keep the Old Testament commandments… That honors and pleases God.  It all sounds good…  Maybe I shouldn’t commit adultery, maybe I shouldn’t lie, maybe I shouldn’t covet, maybe I should keep the Passover, maybe I should do all the feast days, maybe I should do that…  And they are telling you that pleases God…  And in some cases they hint at…  “Actually God loves you better then all these “Grace People”…”  Here is the problem…  According to the scriptures…  If you break 1 law…  You are guilty of breaking all the laws…  You’ve broken the whole law…  The law of the Old Covenant has approximately 618 laws…  Let’s say for good measure…  You keep 617 of the laws and 1 of them you break…  Did you know that you are under the same curse as the guy who breaks all of them???  It doesn’t matter…  So by thinking that well…  I’m keeping some of these laws I’m actually pleasing God better then all you people over there…  It’s a lie…  God requires strict obedience to every law that He gave… And there was only 1 that did that…  There was only ever 1 who pleased God by keeping the law and that was His son Jesus Christ…  So what does that leave us with?  “The New Covenant of Grace”…  I’d like to make a connection here in the Bible… I think the Bible is teaching that there is a connection… between these 10 toes… and the 10 commandments…

Daniel 2:42 as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle.

Specifically mentions the toes…  How many toes?  10…  

I’m going to make the connection between the 10 toes, 10 horns on the beast, the 10 horns on the dragon, and the 10 commandments…  Not that I’m saying that the law is bad…  Romans 7:16 - But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.  However, you can’t do it…  You can’t be perfect and obey the 10 commandments…  You’ll never measure up…  And since I can’t do it…  Since I can’t keep all the 10 commandments, I must rely on the grace of God…  Trying to obey the 10 commandments as a means to attain salvation…  This is nothing more than a works salvation system…  And most, if not all, of the religions of the world are tied to it…  It’s a system that says, “I will do and please God.”  It’s a lie…  It’s a set-up…  If you do this, and if you do that … Then God will bless you… If you keep the 10 commandments God will be pleased with you, and if you break 1 of them… then you’re not going to heaven… It’s all about how you can do righteousness, and the problem is we can’t do it…  So according to the scriptures… The 10 toes of the image in Daniel of this final kingdom coincide with the 10 Horns which are 10 Kings and they represent something that has dominion over mankind…

Daniel 7:7-8 after this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. ⁸ While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

Notice the Iron teeth… 4^th Kingdom… 10 horns, feet, 10 toes… related to 4^th Kingdom of the Image.  Diverse… Now let’s look at:

Revelation 17:12-14 The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. ¹³ These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”

Okay…  So here are the 10 toes, they are represented by the 10 horns, and 10 kings… Now, Kings have dominion… anything that wears a crown signifies having a dominion over people… These 10 kings, have dominion over mankind… They have 1 mind… Now, it is the 10 kings, the 10 horns, the 10 toes that give their power and their strength to the beast.  What is it that is the strength of “SIN”???  These 10 kings give their strength to the beast.  Think about this…  This entire image that Nebuchadnezzar had, the Gold, the Silver, the Bronze and the Iron is being held up and sustained by 10 toes… That’s it!!!  So where did the stone that was cut without hands attack it at?  Yep you guessed it…  The 10 toes…  And when it removed the strength of this image… They all fell… So verse 14 again above (These will wage war against the Lamb…) Think about what Jesus said… The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak… You know what is wrong with the flesh?  It’s under the bondage and curse of the 10 commandments… which we can not keep… and our body our mind is constantly fighting us coveting and wanting to do the things which we are commanded not to do… we are constantly at war… and so these 10 kings, the 10 commandments, the law are enmity against Christ, and these shall make war with the Lamb… and the Lamb will overcome them!!!  Grace conquers the curse of the Law… For He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings… He destroys the power of the 10… The Lamb, the stone cut without hands overcomes the 10 toes, the 10 horns, the 10 kings…  Nebuchadnezzar’s image is of the “Man of Sin”, the Lawless one…  He stands on the 10 toes which gives him stability dominion over mankind…  The 10 toes, 10 commandments are known as the “Law of Sin”…  The Man of Sin is held up by the Law of Sin and death…  And there you have it… Christ came to restore life, not to bring death, but conquer death…  Christ’s resurrection is what conquered death and sin, and by believing in Jesus we have life… The life that Adam and Eve had before they sinned – Life Eternal!!!

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Did the Israeli Government Surrender to the EU?

Curt Here

Has the Israeli government already surrendered to the EU?  In an article from the Jerusalem post, this question is asked in reference to the latest financial agreement that Israel has agreed to with the EU. This agreement is called Event Horizon 2020.

From the Jerusalem Post article...Lawmakers on Monday debated whether or not Israel gave in to the European Union’s guidelines on settlements during a celebratory meeting in honor of joining Horizon 2020, the EU’s Framework Program for Research and Innovation.

“The debate with the EU puts Israel at a critical juncture in relation to diplomatic plans, and a decision has to be made about priorities: Judea and Samaria or joining the world economy,” Knesset Science and Technology Committee chairman Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) said.

For more go here..http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Did-the-Israeli-govt-surrender-to-the-EU-341042

So what is Event Horizon 2020?  From their website..Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

For more go here..http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020

So this new research and innovation program started in January of this year and lasts until 2020, or for seven years.  It turns out that Israel, after long negotiations with the EU finally agreed to sign up. The major hangup in the negotiations was that the EU demanded that Israel not allow any money or loans from Event Horizon 2020 to find its way into Judea, Samaria or East Jerusalem.  Hmmmm.  Link below from an article on the day the agreement went public, with a couple of highlights from the article below.

...What this seems to mean is that Israeli companies or organizations that do business in the territories and want loans from the EU would have to set up a system to ensure that any money it gets from the EU would be invested solely within the Green Line.

The European Commission's guidelines regarding EU funding of entities in the West Bank settlements prohibit funds and agencies from giving grants, scholarships or prizes to Israeli entities in the settlements or to activities in the settlements. In some cases, the guidelines forbid giving loans to Israeli entities that operate directly or indirectly beyond the 1967 lines.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.560501

One more thing, would you be surprised if Event Horizon 2020 is just an extension of latest ENP agreement 2014-2020?   Well you shouldn't. Guess what showed up on the official EU ENP website on the day the agreement was announced.

From the ENP website..The EU and Israel have reached an agreement on “outstanding issues related to Israel's participation in EU Horizon 2020 Programme”, according to a joint statement issued yesterday by EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni.

“The agreement fully respects the EU's legal and financial requirements while at the same time respecting Israel's political sensitivities and preserving its principled positions,” says the statement, emphasising that the agreement takes full account of these constraints.

The agreement will allow Israel's scientific community to benefit from one of the most important EU programmes and facilitate its further integration into the European space of research and innovation. This agreement will pave the way for Israel's participation in other EU programmes to be launched from 1 January 2014. (EU Neighbourhood Info)

You can view it here..http://www.enpi-info.eu/medportal/news/latest/35328/EU-and-Israel-reach-agreement-on-Israel%E2%80%99s-participation-in-Horizon-2020

As it turns out the latest renewed ENP (2014-2020) is the funding and guiding source for Event Horizon 2020.  From the Event Horizon website...The ENPI Horizon 2020 Capacity Building/Mediterranean Environment Programme (H2020 CB/MEP) aims to support the implementation of the Horizon 2020 Initiative Road Map and Work Plan through capacity building and awareness raising activities, and to promote integration/mainstreaming of environment issues into other sector policies.

It is also responsible for the proper coordination of the H2020 Steering Group and the three Sub-Groups and the overall enhanced visibility of Horizon 2020.

You can view it here...http://www.h2020.net/en/capacity-building/the-project-enpi-cb-mep.html

With these agreements now in place has Israel sold out the areas of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem? Could this in combination with the current US led peace process lead to the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy?

Stay Tuned

Curt

Lift up your heads... Your Redemption is near...

Something to consider on upcoming events...  Keep Watch - Mark 13:37

Luke 21 

²⁵ And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;
²⁶ men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
²⁷ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸ But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.

8 Super-Signs in the Heavens

God's Word gives Encouragement

Jesus is our encourager...

 2 Timothy 3

3  But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

² For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

⁴ traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away.

⁶ For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive gullible women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

⁷ ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁸ And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

⁹ But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

¹⁰ But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience,

¹¹ persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

¹² Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

¹³ But evil men and impostors shall go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it.

¹⁵ And that from a babe in Christ thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.

¹⁷ That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

 Matthew 24:42-51

⁴² Watch therefore: for you know not on what day your Lord comes.

⁴³ But know this, that if the owner of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken into.

⁴⁴ Therefore be ready; because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find him doing so when he returns.

⁴⁷ Truly I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.

⁴⁸ But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord is staying away a long time;

⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he least expecteth not, and in an hour when he is not aware of,

⁵¹ and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: where there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Luke 21:34-36

 ³⁴ “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.  

³⁵ For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.  

³⁶ Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Word became Jesus.  John 1:14

We are new creations in Christ who has given us life that we may live it abundantly...  2 Corinthians 5:17

 

EU Deals Will Force Israel to Admit West Bank Outside State

Curt Here...

A new EU directive with Israel that goes into effect Friday, will require that all contracts between EU member states and Israel will carry a clause stating that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are not part of the State Of Israel.

This new directive goes into effect Friday and lasts until 2020.  This directive will run for the next 7 years.   I am convinced that this "clause" is tied to previously signed agreements between the EU and Israel, most notably the ENP.  The ENP is a 7 year agreement between the EU and Israel that started in 2006 and ends in December of 2013.  One of its requirements is that Israel must make progress towards peace with the Palestinians.   The next ENP is scheduled to begin in 2014 and runs through 2020.  

I think the EU is forcing Israel's hand and is tired of waiting on Israel to agree to a two state solution.  This should be watched very closely, as this could turn out to be very significant.

Stay Tuned
Curt


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New directive, to go into effect Friday, will put areas over Green Line outside EU agreements, Haaretz reports; Jerusalem source calls move ‘earthquake’

A new directive published by the European Union will require contracts between EU member countries and Israel to include a clause stating that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are not part of the State of Israel, it was reported on Tuesday.

The directive, to go into effect on Friday, would leave any the West Bank and East Jerusalem outside any agreement signed between Israel and the EU and forces the Israeli government to acknowledge in writing that its settlements in the territories are not part of the state, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz, which first reported on the story Tuesday morning.

The anonymous official described the ruling as an “earthquake” which turned “understandings and quiet agreements that the Union does not work beyond the Green Line” into “formal, binding policy.” One Israeli official told Haaretz that “we are not ready to sign on this clause” in future agreements with the EU, and said that pushing back could cause a “halt to all cooperation in economics, science, culture, sports and academia” with Europe, which “would cause severe damage to Israel.”.......

The new directive, initiated in December by the EU foreign ministers, is “in conformity with the EU’s longstanding position that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and with the non-recognition by the EU of Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied territories, irrespective of their legal status under domestic Israeli law,” the EU said in a statement.

The directive, to be in effect until 2020, are designed in part to stave-off a general boycott of Israel and to ensure that Israel’s participation in EU projects is “not put in question,” the EU told Haaretz. Reportedly, the cause is already affecting negotiations over a proposed Israeli-EU youth project.

For more go here...http://www.timesofisrael.com/future-eu-deals-will-force-israel-to-admit-west-bank-outside-state/#comments