HISTORY OF THE GAZA STRIP AND PALESTINE

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This video provides the true history of the Gaza Strip and Palestine. The word Palestine does not appear in the Bible as the word did not exist before the Romans made it up.

The ancient Romans pinned the name on the Land of Israel. In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection,  the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast. 

“Palestine” was used for millennia without a precise geographic definition. That’s not uncommon—think of “Transcaucasus” or “Midwest.” No accurate definition existed for Palestine because none was required. Since the Roman era, the name lacked political significance. No nation ever had that name.

USA: A NATION IN RAPID DECLINE

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When Valerian became emperor in 253 AD, the Roman Empire was amid the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’— plagues, inflation, escalating conflicts, growing social tensions, rising crime, declining trade, and a struggling economy. It finally collapsed when its once-legendary military had a historic military recruitment crisis on its hands. Rome wasn’t just unable to attract the best and brightest to its ranks; it was practically unable to recruit anyone at all. Long gone were the days when a career in the Roman legions was considered an honorable profession. Roman citizens were simply no longer interested in serving. And Roman patriotism wasn’t just dead, it was laughed at.

To address these challenges, Valerian expanded the use of mercenaries. He essentially bribed new recruits, including and especially foreigners, offering money, citizenship, and land grants in exchange for serving in the military. This marked a clear and obvious turning point in Rome’s history: empires last because they sustain their strength— and that strength requires both a prosperous economy AND a powerful military. it’s incredibly difficult to have a powerful military when nobody wants to serve.

The US military finds itself in a similar position today. In fact, the US in general is going through a similar period as Rome’s “Crisis of the Third Century”, complete with political scandal and instability, inflation, massive deficits, border incursions, and even a pandemic.

And the parallels between Rome’s third-century military and the state of the US military today are strong.

Last year, the US military missed its recruitment goal by 41,000 troops, which is a staggering, record-high figure. The active-duty US military is now at its smallest size since 1940. As a result, mission readiness is down. Fitness standards are being abandoned. Recruiting bonuses have skyrocketed. Some politicians have even suggested offering citizenship to illegal immigrants in exchange for serving in the US military.

One of the biggest reasons for this recruitment crisis is that 77% of young people in America do not meet the basic standards to join the military, whether for physical, mental, or moral reasons.

And that last one— moral— is the fastest growing part: young people aren’t interested in serving because they are being indoctrinated to hate their country.

Teachers at Fort Lee High School in New Jersey and in Berkeley California, were recently caught, for example, teaching that Hamas is a peaceful resistance movement… while Israel is genocidal.

The teacher’s union covering school districts in Portland, Oregon recently published lesson plans which praised Hamas… yet completely failed to mention their October 7 terrorist attack murdering innocent Israelis.

By the time students make it to university, they are filled with hate for their country; it’s so palpable that the supreme leader of Iran, one of America’s biggest enemies, recently praised American university students. “You are currently part of the Resistance Front,” the Ayatollah told America’s youth, “and have waged an honorable battle despite the relentless pressure of your government.”

The kids in the street wearing their keffiyehs and screaming about their pronouns have no interest in serving.

Meanwhile, the patriotic Americans who filled the military’s ranks for decades have been maligned as “extremists”. These are the very people who love America so much that they were ready to die for their country— and kill the enemies of their country, which is no less consequential.

Yet instead of embracing the people the military so desperately needs, the government practically lampoons them and their core beliefs.

The Army used to have slogans like “Be all you can be,” and “Army Strong”. Those have been replaced by recruiting ads about soldiers with lesbian moms. Even the CIA recruits by catering to the woke, Diversity & Inclusion crowd. It’s bizarre to see recruiting ads tailored to radicals who hate their country and have no interest in serving. And gee what a surprise— the woke recruiting campaigns have failed.

Now the Defense Department has resorted to bribing people. Of course, the military has long offered recruitment bonuses and college tuition in exchange for service. But it was typically one of the reasons to join, not THE reason. That’s no longer the case. Just ask the soldiers who make TikTok videos about why they joined: “For a Camaro”, “To pay my bills”, “For the money”,

Need more evidence? An online recruiting advertisement for the US Coast Guard that I recently saw: “Think you’re too old or out of shape for the U.S. Coast Guard? Think again.” Bribing people to join only got them so far, and now they are begging people to serve who are too fat and old.

Strong nations need both a robust economy AND a powerful military.

Robust economy: America is facing a future economic tsunami; the government itself forecasts the national debt to grow beyond $55 trillion over the next decade. Social Security will run out of money in 9 years. The US dollar is on the road to losing its global reserve status soon.

Powerful military: Unable to recruit period, let alone the right people. Most major weapons systems, from fighter jets to naval warships, are rapidly becoming obsolete… yet there is no money to replace them.

Apostate Church: Most of the Institutional churches have compromised with the world. They no longer uphold Biblical inerrancy and permit gay marriage, homosexual pastors, and transgenderism.

We are living in the time of the end. There are 2000 Biblical prophecies of Jesus’ second coming to Earth. Jesus tells us it will be a time of lawlessness, like in the days of Noah when God judged the Earth with a worldwide flood.

“For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:37-39

America does not feature in Biblical end-times prophecy. The Antichrist who rises from the Middle East reigns supreme perhaps as the head of the United Nations. China and Russia have a military presence but the USA is no longer a military power.

DISCOVER THE LINKS BETWEEN ANCIENT WRITINGS, BIBLICAL PROPHECY AND MODERN SCIENCE

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Diving into the depths of the Ancient Writings and the Future: Nephilim, Giants, Transhumanism, and Revelation Explored. Doug Hamp on The Sensible Hippie Podcast explores the fascinating realms of ancient giants, the cutting-edge concept of transhumanism, and the profound mysteries of the Book of Revelation. Doug uncovers how these seemingly disparate topics weave together to challenge our understanding of humanity’s past, present, and future. You will discover the links between biblical prophecy and modern science, and how they can illuminate our path forward. It will give you a much better understanding of the Nephilim and why God had to destroy the human-angel hybrids. Doug also gives us a much better understanding of the Mark of the Beast than the commonly held views. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation that pushes the boundaries of what we know and where we’re headed.

Dr. Hamp is an expert in ancient languages and has found the Prince of this World, Satan is evident in ancient writings of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and others, but under different names. The Sumerians, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 4,000 to 2,000 BCE, had a rich pantheon of gods and goddesses, but Enlil is the name for Satan. Enlil was also worshipped by the Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians. In the Mesopotamian region, Markduk is the name for Satan. He was the chief deity worshipped during the 2nd millennium BCE.

Doug also shows us how the Biblical Nimrod is a template for the Antichrist as in ancient writings he is linked to Enlil (Satan) and is seen as Akkad. god of war and hunting, and Ninurta under his title Lugal. marada, “king of Marad, or great strength.” He could also be Marduk (Sumer, amar. ud [u]), the hero-god of battle.

For me, Doug has revealed how Satan down through history has been controlling mankind. The Tower of Babel shows us how quickly after the worldwide flood of Noah’s day mankind rebelled against God resulting in God creating new languages that forced people to separate and make the nations that exist today. Earth’s true history can only be found in the Bible as its source is our Creator.

IS TOLERANCE A CHRISTIAN VIRTUE?

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The Christian principle of equality sanctifies distinctions and differences — between male and female, for example, or between one nation’s culture and another’s — so that all souls might be equal in loving God. The leftist view of “equality” eradicates distinctions and differences, thus destroying the dignity embodied therein. This devilish operation is also performed on — or perhaps through — another of the chief tenets of leftism: tolerance.

Tolerance is not a Christian virtue; it is rather an earthly shadow or social mirroring of the fuller virtue of mercy.

As is made abundantly, almost appallingly evident in the form of Christ crucified — that bloodied and mangled God-man hanging upon the cross — mercy is forgiveness of some evil. It was, after all, sin which so brutalized Christ, but it was love — not merely nails — which pinioned Him to the cross. Mercy is the handmaiden of that other and greater virtue, charity, but mercy’s twin is charity’s manservant, justice. Mercy and justice balance one another out in the service of charity, with those twin virtues finding their fulfillment and completion in charity.

Justice without mercy to encourage it towards charity would be no virtue at all; it would, at best, be cold legalism and, at its worst, approach cruelty. Just so, mercy without justice to guide it towards charity becomes simply indulgence, indifference, and even “tolerance.” While Christ, in His mercy, forgave mankind its sins and evils with His arms outstretched upon the cross, justice demanded that those sins be called evils; if Christ’s mercy were simply forgiving sin by calling it some other name, by declaring that sin was no longer evil, His sacrifice would have been an act of mere and almost superfluous indulgence; it is the twin virtues of both mercy and justice, working hand in hand, which were operative in the crucified Christ, who is Himself the zenith and indeed source of all virtue.

It is this truth, preserved throughout the centuries by Christianity, that leftism so viciously assaults with its proclamation of “tolerance.” Mercy is twisted and warped so that all manner of sin and degeneracy demands to be tolerated.

The Catholic archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput once declared, “Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.” This is where “tolerance” moves beyond brutalizing just mercy and proceeds to mangle its twin, justice. For while mercy may call a thing an evil but choose, in obedience to love, to forgive it, justice demands, also in obedience to love, that that thing still be called an evil. “Tolerance” reverses this process: that which is evil is, in a Satanic mockery of mercy, called good, while justice is turned on its head so that the only thing not tolerated by “tolerance” is true justice. 

Even as Christ hung on the cross, weighted down with all the sins of the world, He cried out, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Though crushed beneath the weight of untold hundreds of millions of sins, beaten and broken, bloodied and bruised for the sake of forgiveness, Christ still declared sins to be sin; His mercy demanded His suffering, His justice demanded His clarity.

HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN IN A WOKE CULTURE

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Mike Johnson Speaker in the USA House of Representatives talks to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins about his family life. According to Perkins most people can’t help but admire the Louisiana leader for staying focused on what matters at home — even in their whirlwind new life with him as Speaker. Most of the time, people want to know how their kids have stayed so grounded. Johnson said the secret isn’t that they’re amazing parents. The secret is knowing Who to turn to.

Mike Johson and his wife Kelly.

When confronting the woke culture, Perkins pointed out, so much of that “goes back to the parents and preparing the foundation … so that our children can be out there making a difference.” Johnson emphatically agreed. “People ask Kelly and [me] all the time … ‘How have you done this? Your kids are all really well-adjusted and great people.’ Well, there’s no secret to it,” he insisted. “We’re not extraordinary parents,” Mike wanted people to know.

“We just follow the rule book — we follow the Bible — and we teach them that [it’s] real. It is actually an instruction manual for life. And when you develop in your children a true biblical worldview and where they understand how it applies and how reliable it is, and that’s the only reliable thing there is, then it takes hold in their heart.”

Scripture lays it out pretty clearly, Johnson explained. “It reminds us that if you teach [children] that way, they will not walk away from it. And we’ve just focused on that, kept it simple, and made faith a real aspect of life woven into all seven days of the week — not just Sunday mornings. … And we’re blessed that they’re all walking with the Lord.”

He and Kelly think a lot about 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking with the Lord.” “And ours do, by God’s grace,” he said gratefully. “We pray that they continue to do that and I hope they will.”

HOW DID JESUS TEACH US TO WATCH FOR HIS RETURN?

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Jesus’ top END-TIME command to WATCH is being ignored, and according to Jesus, it will lead to the Great Apostasy. Pastors are afraid to teach what it really means, so vast numbers of our churches are clueless. Many have already compromised with the world and are already apostate churches: gay marriage, homosexual pastors, and transgenderism.

How many churches are preaching the need to watch for Jesus’ return and to watch for the right things. How many times did Jesus say we need to watch and how do we watch? At least following Jesus’ command to be a good disciple is a good start but it is not what Jesus is saying, here. Watching for the signs Jesus has given us is so that, we know what is coming and can act accordingly. God has given us much information on the time before He returns, particularly on the Antichrist so He wants us to watch for the events so we will be prepared and can warn others.

There were 300-plus prophecies of Jesus first coming and the religious leaders of the day, the Pharisees and Sadducees totally missed it. There are 2000 prophecies of Jesus’ second coming and the religious leaders of our day are totally missing it.

Watch this Nelson Walters video to find out what the command is, and how to obey it.

OBJECTIVE MORALITY PROVES GOD EXISTS

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This video covers the following content:

00:37 Introduction: Do we need God to explain morality? Or can evolution explain it?

01:49 What is morality? Defining terms

02:12 Objective morality

03:34 Subjective (or ‘relative’) morality

04:32 Is there evidence that objective morality even exists?

05:46 Do differences in conscience prove that morality is relative?

06:16 The fact that people disagree doesn’t mean there is no truth!

07:04 The Nazis were _objectively_ wrong!

08:06 Can evolution explain objective morality?

08:32 Aside: More evidence that objective morality exists

09:34 Continuing: Can evolution explain objective morality?

10:36 No, evolutionary explanations only produce _subjective_ morality!

12:25 Is morality just a social contract?

14:01 Is God really the best explanation for objective morality?

15:50 Atheist’s challenge: Where did God get _His_ moral standard from?

16:13 This is just a rehash of Euthyphro’s Dilemma (from Plato)

17:11 It’s a false dilemma

18:29 Answer: Moral goodness is rooted in the very character/nature of God

19:07 What about the presence of evil?

19:51 Moral evil depends on objective moral _goodness_ for it’s existence!

21:57 Even ‘natural evil’ points to the existence of a perfect standard of goodness!

24:16 Can atheists be good without God?

25:58 Conclusion: Why objective morality is best explained by God

27:12 The human problem with morality—and the solution

28:08 Example: Using the moral argument in real life

ORIGINAL HEBREW VERSION OF REVELATION DISCOVERED IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

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The Apostle John wrote Revelation down in Hebrew and later translated it into Greek, which is what our English Bible translations are based on. But the original Hebrew version has been discovered AND authenticated. What lost truths does it reveal? One lost truth is earthshaking and doctrine changing. Watch this video to find out how and where the Hebrew version of Revelation was discovered, what its original title was (it wasn’t “Revelation”), what the original colors of the Four Horsemen were, and the one-sentence difference that changes everything about how you interpret Revelation.

The one-sentence difference relates to Revelation 1:19 and how this affects how we interpret the information given on the seven churches. These seven churches represent the church as it will be in the last seven years before God pours out His wrath upon the Earth with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements. The sixth church of Philadelphia is clearly the raptured church and relates to the sixth seal, which is the celestial signs before God pours out His wrath upon the Earth. The church of Laodicea is the church left behind as it is the one God spews out of His mouth.

CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA

“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name… Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.” Revelation 3:8, 10-11

FRANKLIN GRAHAM’S U.K. “GOD LOVES YOU” TOUR

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Over 8,000 people traveled from around the U.K. to hear Franklin Graham preach in Birmingham on Saturday night. It was the American evangelist’s first time in the Midlands, with his visit coming 40 years since his late father, world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, preached the Gospel in nearby Villa Park.

“Jesus Christ is not dead. He’s alive and He’s here tonight,” said Graham to cheers and applause inside the Birmingham Resorts World Arena.

Graham is back in the U.K. to continue his God Loves You Tour, with another night coming up in Glasgow on June 22.

His thoughts turning momentarily to his father, who preached many times in the U.K., Graham said, “I miss him and every time I come to this country I think of him because he loved this nation, he loved the people of this country.”

Birmingham was one of the eight cities that Graham had originally planned to visit in 2020, but it was postponed due to legal action against seven venues that canceled their legally binding contracts. The tour was eventually able to go ahead after the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association took successful legal action against the venues.

Last night, Graham preached from Luke 19, which tells the story of the salvation of Zacchaeus, a wealthy chief tax collector who put his faith in Christ and vowed to pay back fourfold anyone he had robbed.

The event was prayerfully supported by 500 churches around the U.K., with worship led by Michael W. Smith and former Hillsong worship leader Taya.

Graham heads to Glasgow, Scotland, next weekend and will be in London in 2025 for another stop on his God Loves You Tour. More details can be found at https://godlovesyoutour.org.uk/

THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY IS THE BASIC UNIT OF SOCIETY

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The family is the basic unit of God’s plan for His world. He designed it to be a strong foundation for society and for each individual. When the family functions according to God’s design, it is a powerful force for good in the world.

As the original and basic cell of society, the family is the natural organic source of all societies. The liberal secularists’ assumption that the individual is the basic unit of society, is an assumption that is impossible to demonstrate.

Marriage being opened up to combinations of people other than one man and one woman marks the death knell of the nation. No society has ever endured far beyond the demeaning of the marriage institution.

Traditional marriages produce children, who extend the nation’s existence, ideals, goals, and wealth for another generation. Traditional families are healthier, more stable, and more productive than other kinds of families, resulting in a net gain for society.

God ultimately owns children, but he entrusts them to parents to discipline and disciple them, for him. That means the government/the state does not own our children.

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.” Psalm 127:3

Our enemy, Satan, knows that parents are the first and strongest barrier to provide protection for children against predation and grooming. He knows that God gave children parents to protect them from evil and danger, so he tries to separate children from their parents, isolating them and making them vulnerable to his lies. It’s all part of the spiritual battle raging around us.

Satan has the family in his crosshairs as he ramps up his attack. But God has already given us the answer to this spiritual attack, and it’s found in Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:5–9

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4

The answer to the attack on the family and the intense LGBTQ, pro-abortion, CRT, etc., indoctrination directed toward children is parents—fathers in particular—teaching their children the Word of the Lord, day in and day out, in all situations.

If you are a father, are you the kind of father who is intentional about bringing your children up in the instruction of the Lord? The kind of father who spends time with his children so he has opportunity to talk about the Lord when he sits, walks, and rises with his children? You have the responsibility before the Lord to be that kind of dad—you cannot leave it solely to your wife or to your church. You stand responsible before God as the head of your family.