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Biblical Prophecy…Today’s News…

16 MAR 2024

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Hiding in Dens….and Mountains…

“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains“;

“And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb“. [Revelation 6;15-16]

With many prophetic events now fulfilled, some in partial fulfillment and others lurking on the near horizon – here’s another one developing in front of our eyes;

Amid ‘World War III’ fears, apocalypse-fearing moguls are investing billions in survival strategies including sumptuous and enormously expensive underground bunkers nestled into hillsides beneath mountain ranges and deserts in remote places.

Obviously aiming to protect themselves from potential threats including civil unrest, cyberattacks, nuclear bombing, power grid failure and drastic climate-change absurdities, many work directly with general contractors to build kitted-out end-times bunkers, while others are calling on a handful of specialized companies.

Their extreme wealth and sense of entitlement has them obsessed with insulating themselves from very real and imagined catastrophes, non-existent rising sea levels, mass migrations, global plandemics, tribal mayhem and resource depletion.

Those involved in this rush to hide from what they perceive to be coming upon the planet include Tesla’s Elon Musk, Palantir’s Peter Thiel, [his underground hideout under the Remarkable Mountains on New Zealand’s South Island pictured below] Virgin’s Richard Branson, GAVI’s Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ivanka Trump, hedge fund king Ken Griffin, and many many others.

“It got really busy, and it seems like the phone hasn’t stopped ringing; World War III seems like it’s coming,” shares Ron Hubbard, CEO of Texas-based Atlas Survival Shelters, who notes that the news about Zuckerberg’s bunker “caused a buying frenzy.”

A host of companies have emerged ready to meet that demand, including Rising S, which says it has built 14 bunkers in New Zealand; the firm Survival Condo, which converts abandoned US missile silos into survivalist underground high-rises; and the Czech based Oppidum, which offers ‘ultra-luxury‘ bunkers for billionaires

For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us abandoned souls.

The most glaring examples are underground, just as scripture informs us.

We see this very recent and frantic development as an incredible and oblivious planning by many for the fulfillment of Revelation 16 .

These are the very people who rushed humanity to a technical future that can scarcely be controlled.

A future, they assured us, that would throw the shackles off the worker drones, and allow AI machinery to do all the manual labour we now detest.

It would allow migration to other planets, enter a virtual Metaverse, and engineer algorithms and digitization.

Now they are found digging enormous holes in the ground in which to hide from it all, to leave their fellowman to their fate and survive to live another day.

The ‘newthink‘ is to earn enough money to be able to live as a mole and escape the consequences of what they created.

These people once showered the world with madly optimistic business plans for how technology might benefit human society, now they have turned their interest to protecting themselves from that which they perceive to be global calamity but what any bible believer knows full well is the coming wrath of a greatly offended and Almighty God.

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While the West Fiddles…..

While the Biden administration and the EU were working on creating a “Palestinian” state, the real details were being fleshed out in Moscow, where the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other terrorist groups were meeting at a summit convened by Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. [pictured below]

The summit, convened at the Institute of Oriental Studies, once a vehicle for Soviet influence operations in the Third World, brought together Azzam al-Ahmada, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas leader, as well as a representative for Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, DFLP and other terror groups.

The goal of all these terrorists coming together was to create a “technocratic government“.

What is a “technocratic government”? It’s a front for the terrorists and composed of non-profit executives, academics, economists and others who have experience dealing with the international community and extracting foreign aid from them.

Hamas will not officially be part of the puppet regime, but will control the puppets.

“I hear a lot internationally, did Hamas agree? It’s none of your business,” Husam Zomlot, [pictured below] the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Kingdom told The Financial Times, adding, “About Hamas — there are ongoing discussions… but this government is a technocratic government, it’s not made of any political factions, because this is not the time for political factions.“

That’s what the Biden administration and the EU want to hear, but while Qatar is helping assemble a new “technocratic” front for the terrorists, the Moscow summit made it clear that the real agenda of the new government would be terror against Israel and the U.S.

The PLO-Hamas-Islamic Jihad summit in Moscow concluded with a commitment to “national unity that embraces all Palestinian forces and factions within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization“

It laid out the main goals, beginning with “confronting Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, which is carried out with the support, assistance and participation of the United States.”

The only actual point of unity for the Islamic terrorist groups that met in Moscow was fighting Israel. And that will be the only mission of any regime they put into place.

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Biden admin gives Israel outline for ‘Acceptable’ Rafah operation, opposes large-scale campaign…….

Washington, on Wednesday, gave Israel outlines on the kind of Rafah operation it would find acceptable, as the U.S. Biden administration continues to oppose a large-scale ground operation by the IDF.

U.S. officials told their Israeli counterparts that the Biden administration would support counter terrorism-style raids in and underneath the city the IDF calls “the last major stronghold” of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Localized raids to go after high-value Hamas targets would minimize civilian casualties, U.S. officials said, which has been its main goal in the past months.

The unverifiable reports of a rising civilian casualty count in Gaza have hampered Biden’s re-election efforts, allegedly costing him support among the Democrat party’s progressive wing.

After first publicly supporting Israel in its war against the Hamas terror organization in Gaza, tensions between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been rising, culminating in public exchanges of blows between the two top leaders this week.

Biden repeatedly conditioned U.S. support for a Rafah operation on Israel presenting “credible” plans to prevent civilian harm, which, as two Israeli officials say, are still being developed.

Rafah is the last major town in the enclave that hasn’t been conquered by the IDF and is home to four intact battalions of Hamas forces.

In addition, it houses an estimated 1 million civilians, many of them refugees who fled the fighting to the southern town.

“To win this war, we must destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah,” Netanyahu reiterated on Tuesday.

“If not, Hamas will regroup, rearm, and reconquer Gaza and then we’re back to square one. And that’s an intolerable threat that we cannot accept.”

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Biden sanctions entire Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria…

It was reported Wednesday that the administration of Joe Biden is set to levy sanctions against two Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria as early as Thursday.

While the two sanctioned settlements have been declared “illegal settlements” by the United States, the Biden administration is not sanctioning them for that reason, rather, they are being sanctioned for being “a base for attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians.”

This has never been done before!

The Biden administration appears to be drawing upon data provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to address the issue of settler violence.

The levying of sanctions against an entire settlement is a new development, as previously the U.S. had only restricted weapons sales to Israel or imposed sanctions on individual settlers.

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Democratic senator Schumer urges elections in Israel, saying Netanyahu ‘unfit to serve.…..’

US Senate Majority Leader the demented Chuck Schumer urges Israel to hold snap elections, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “no longer fit” to serve as premier, as gaps between the US and Israel continue to grow over the latter’s prosecution of its war in Gaza against Hamas.

“The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. The world has changed – radically – since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” says Schumer.

Netanyahu has “lost his way, putting himself in coalition with far-right extremists like [Finance Minister] Bezalel Smotrich and [National Security Minister] Itamar Ben-Gvir.”

Netanyahu’s Likud party rightly laid into Schumer; “Israel is an independent and proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu, not a banana republic,” the party says in a statement.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu leads a determined policy that is supported by a huge majority of the people.”

“It is expected of Senator Schumer to respect Israel’s elected government and not undermine it. This is always true, but even more so during wartime.”

Turncoat Joe Biden has praised the speech by Schumer that sought ouster of Israeli PM and new elections in Israel, saying many Americans shared concerns about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Gaza.

“He made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans,” Biden said.

The tense Biden -Netanyahu relationship underscores how Washington and Israel are diverging the longer Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza lasts, raising uncomfortable questions about the long-term strength of bilateral ties that once seemed ironclad.

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Israel receives Hamas list of hostage deal demands from Qatar …..

Positive developments have been made regarding the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israeli media reported on Thursday evening.

The cabinet will convene Friday at noon and discuss the response of Hamas, which this evening officially submitted its response to the mediating countries, according to Israeli media.

According to the announcement published by Hamas, the deal was intended to allow the return of the residents of Gaza to their homes and the withdrawal of the IDF from the Strip.

Realistically, that is never going to happen?

Qatar sent Israel an official letter via Hamas detailing the Gaza terror group’s demands as part of the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, KAN News reported on Thursday night.

Developing……

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Netanyahu – “ We will enter Rafah”…..

Netanyahu visited the Ofer military base Thursday afternoon, where he met with commanders and soldiers from the 636th Field Intelligence Unit.

He told the soldiers that Israel is facing significant international pressure not to enter Rafah.

The Israeli government views a ground operation in Rafah as necessary to achieve its goal of defeating Hamas in Gaza and freeing the captives.

“Even as you and the IDF are preparing to continue fighting, there is international pressure to prevent us from entering Rafah and completing the work,” Netanyahu said. “As Prime Minister of Israel, I reject this pressure.”

“We have been doing this successfully for five months already; this is record time in the history of Israel’s wars. I will continue to reject the pressure. We will enter Rafah. We will complete the elimination of Hamas’s battalions. We will restore security and we will bring total victory for the people of Israel and State of Israel.”

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GAZA – HAMAS

This past week the IDF 162nd Division continued to operate in the northern and central Gaza Strip.

The IDF Nahal Brigade (162nd Division) located and destroyed rocket launchers that Palestinian fighters previously used to launch rockets into Israel.

Israeli forces directed an airstrike in the area targeting Palestinian fighters who had launched two rockets at them.

An Arab Palestinian activist separately reported sounds of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters south of Gaza City on Wednesday.

Arab Palestinian militias continued to conduct a deliberate defence of Hamad neighbourhood, northern Khan Younis, on March 12.

Three IDF brigades have been clearing Hamad of Palestinian fighters and military infrastructure too.

The IDF had intelligence that Palestinian fighters retreated from other areas in Khan Younis to hide in Hamad.

Israeli forces directed airstrikes to kill Palestinian cells and located weapons in buildings during clearing operations on March 12.

Four Palestinian militias claimed attacks targeting Israeli forces in Hamad using mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, and other unspecified explosive devices.

Israeli forces continued clearing operations in other sectors of northern Khan Younis;

The IDF Bislamach Brigade have killed over 100 Palestinian fighters by sniper fire, mortar and shell fire, and airstrikes over the past two weeks in Qarara, northern Khan Younis, and in eastern Khan Younis.

Israeli forces located infrastructure, weapons, combat equipment, and a drone launcher.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters detonated an explosively-rigged tunnel and a house-borne improvised explosive device (HBIED) targeting Israeli forces in Qarara.

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HIZBOLLAH

Israeli Air Force jets attacked Hezbollah terrorist targets in Southern Lebanon on Thursday in response to ongoing rocket fire towards the Upper Galilee, the Israel Defence Forces said.

IAF airstrikes targeted terrorist infrastructure in Naqoura on Lebanon’s southern coast, as well as in the village of Yaroun, adjacent to the Israeli community of Dovev in the Upper Galilee.

The military said troops also removed a “threat” in the area of Wadi Hamul, using artillery fire.

Earlier on Thursday, the air force struck Hezbollah assets in the southern town of Kunin, according to the IDF.

The Hezbollah forces in Lebanon tells the Iranian regime, which supports them, that it would not drag Iran into a larger war with Israel if current tensions continue to escalate, according to a Reuters report on Friday.

The report was based on seven sources who said that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, visited Lebanon’s capital Beirut in February.

In a meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the two reportedly discussed the possible dangers in the case of Israel escalating the current fire exchanges into an all-out war, which would risk dragging Iran into the conflict and could ultimately lead to other parts of the Middle East joining the conflict.

In such a scenario, Iran would feel pressured to join on the side of its main proxy force in the region, three of the senior Iranian sources told Reuters.

However, Nasrallah assured Qaani that his group could fight Israel alone and was not looking for massive Iranian support.

“This is our fight,” Nasrallah told Qaani, according to an Iranian source with knowledge of the discussions.

Not believable really?

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YEMEN

Houthis have apparently successfully tested a hypersonic missile, and plan to begin production.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have successfully tested a hyper sonic rocket in Yemen, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing a military source.

According to the report, the Houthis are planning to begin manufacturing the missiles for use on targets in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, as well as against targets in Israel.

The Yemen-based terror group has said that it would escalate attacks during the Muslim month of Ramadan in solidarity with ARAB Palestinians amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

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Missile hits merchant vessel west of Yemen‘s Hodeidah;

A merchant vessel [pictured above but yet to be named] reported that it had been struck by a missile and sustained damage 76 nautical miles west of Yemen’s Hodeidah, as confirmed by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and the British security firm Ambrey on Friday.

In an advisory note, the UKMTO stated, “The vessel has incurred some damage. The crew members are reported to be safe, and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call.” Ambrey also verified that the ship had experienced starboard side damage with no reported injuries.

Additionally, the UKMTO disclosed that another vessel, located 50 nautical miles (93 km) southwest of al Hudaydah, Yemen, reported the sighting of missiles passing overhead and detonating in the vicinity.

“The Master of the vessel reported the presence of two missiles flying over the ship and heard two loud explosions in the distance. The vessel sustained no damage, and the crew members are reported safe. The vessel is proceeding to its next port of call,” the UKMTO noted.

On a separate note, the U.S. military announced late Thursday that Houthi forces had launched two anti-ship ballistic missiles from Yemen towards the Gulf of Aden and two missiles towards the Red Sea.

Fortunately, no injuries or damages were reported to U.S. or coalition vessels. The U.S. Central Command disclosed that it had intercepted nine anti-ship missiles and two drones in Houthi-controlled regions of Yemen.

These attacks in the Red Sea have disrupted global shipping routes, necessitating longer and costlier voyages around southern Africa.

The leader of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said in a televised speech on Thursday that Houthis’ operations targeting vessels will prevent Israel-linked ships from even passing through the Indian Ocean towards the Cape of Good Hope.

Around 34 Houthi members have been killed since the militia began to attack shipping lanes in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza war, the Houthis’ leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, added

The Galaxy Leader cargo ship [pictured above] was hijacked using a Houthi-owned helicopter on November 19 in the Red Sea, 116 days ago, as the terrorists laid siege to the ship and took hostage the ship’s crew of 17 Filipinos, two Bulgarians, three Ukrainians, two Mexicans and a Romanian.

“The ship and its crew are in the hands of the brothers in the Hamas resistance movement and the Al-Qassam Brigades,” Houthi spokesman Nasr Al-Din Amer said, CNN reported. 

The captain of the ‘Galaxy Leader‘ was transferred to Hamas. Their fate is unknown at this time.

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IRAN

Iran has been using European ports to “legitimize” its arms exports to Hezbollah, according to a report by The Telegraph on Thursday.

The report states that Hezbollah received arms, including missiles and bombs used on Israel, from ships that docked in Belgium, Spain, and Italy.

Antwerp, Valencia, and Ravenna were named as the major European ports involved; ships would dock there before arriving in Latakia in Northern Syria and then moving on to Southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Biden late in the day Wednesday re-approved a $10 billion sanctions waiver for Iran, drawing immediate ire from GOP lawmakers who see it as appeasing a ‘rogue regime‘ at a moment a proxy war is still unfolding in Iraq and Syria, and as Israel’s war against Hamas and Tehran-backed Hezbollah threatens to spillover in the broader region.

The Iranians have ‘promised’ not to use it for terrorism or supporting their proxies in the region – so, what could go wrong with that?

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UKRAINE

There are now multiple reports of an attempted incursion into Russia from across the Ukrainian border.

The Russian Ministry of Defence has said that its forces prevented the incursion, while at least two separate Ukraine-based groups have claimed responsibility for the cross-border operation: the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Siberian Battalion both say they are made up of Russians opposed to the Kremlin.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defence’s account, “terrorist formations” tried to invade Russia’s Belgorod region at around 3:00 A.M. Moscow time Friday.

The ministry claimed that the attack was launched in three directions: near the settlements of Odnorobovka, Nekhoteyevka, and Spodaryushino. Russia says that the fighters were supported by tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also said that another four attacks were repulsed between around 8:00 and 8:25 A.M. in Russia’s Kursk region.

At this stage, there’s still a good deal of confusion as to how deeply the attackers managed to penetrate Russian territory, with Moscow denying that the groups managed to breach the border, let alone take control of any villages.

For its part, Russia claims that its forces inflicted heavy losses on the attackers. The Russian Ministry of Defence says that aircraft, missile forces, and artillery were all used to repel the attacks, which suggests that the cross-border raids were on a significant scale.

Ukraine has used NATO-supplied missiles to strike Russian Navy vessels in the Black Sea, the bloc’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged on Thursday, adding that he considers the area to be of “great strategic importance.”

Earlier this month, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Navy ship off the coast of Crimea with the help of several seaborne drones. 

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The Bible – Far–Ahead–of–Date…..

“The Bible is not only up-to-date; it is far-ahead-of-date. It has enabled man to know things that will come to pass long before they have actually occurred.

There is not a single movement of world importance — yesterday, today, or tomorrow — which is not foretold in the Word of God through God’s prophets, the apostles, and in the words of the Son of God himself.

They declared that Jesus would be despised and rejected. They foretold that Israel as a nation would be hated and that the Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Jews, would be hated and crucified by his own brethren.

Scientific knowledge being demonstrated today is prophesied in the Word of God — including solemn warnings against the dangers of these perilous (yet marvelous) times in which we live.

The Old Testament prophets spoke concerning the present worldwide unrest among men and antagonism toward God. They prophesied concerning the spiritual declensions in these terrible days and the increasing apostasy that is all around us, even within the organized visible church.

The prophets declared that evil days would grow worse and worse as we come nearer the end of the Church Age. They foretold the decline of democracy and the rise of dictatorships, with people becoming merchandise of men.

Even Jesus himself prophesied of wars and rumours of wars, distress of nations and perplexities and fears, men’s hearts failing them for fear.

Things transpiring all around us today declare that the Bible is verbally inspired, God-breathed, and therefore worthy of our acceptance and trust…

Rest assured…this world is not as a helpless iceberg, drifting in a mighty ocean, changing its course as the current and the winds change. It is more like a great ship with a chart, a rudder, a compass, and a captain on the bridge, following a determined course by his providence — not as the winds blow, but as He determined before the foundation of the world…

It is true that man is allowed to rule for a season independently of God – but his rule is characterized by unrest, turmoil, strife, hatred, wars, commotion, confusion, and chaos.

In spite of all that man does or attempts to do, God overrules in his sovereign might. He will bring order out of chaos. He will establish his kingdom of peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

There is a day coming when every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God’

Oliver B. Greene, founder of “The Gospel Hour”.

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WORLD NEWS BRIEFING – with Greg Denham and Joe Pedick – 14 March 2024

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