What better way to begin the week than being informed by one of our own, Australian Mike Claydon. Follow Mike as he expounds on the mind numbing velocity of Biblical prophecy now being fulfilled. For some inexplicable (to me) technical reason some of the original pictures will not transfer, my apologies to the author.

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ISRAEL REPORT 12 March 2022 At brain-numbing velocity Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled in our day as never before in human history. Prophetic words written thousands of years ago are springing to life – words that just a few short years ago seemed to be almost impossible to believe. Many nations mentioned were no longer in existence or aligned as forecast for the last days of the church age. The thought that an entire global financial and trading system could be controlled by one person – and the exclusion of a non-compliant sector of society could be forbidden from buying or selling – seemed absurd. Now the technology is in place to implement this tyranny, and all the nations are aligned as described in scripture for the last days. The Bible asks; Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying;     “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us“. And then scripture reveals that the God who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in his wrath, and distress them in his great displeasure. He shall break the nations with a rod of iron; and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore, Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light! Russian forces splinter long column, revise tactics for seizing Kyiv………   Stalled by Ukraine harassment, Russian generals revised their tactics for the offensive on Kyiv by opening a new front to the west and targeting the town of Lviv. They began the third week of their invasion on March 11 by splitting into multiple sub-convoys the huge column of tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery and troops snaking around the capital. The sub-units are tightening their encirclement of the city ready to drive in from the north, west and east. Tanks diverted from the convoy were posted at Antonov airport to the north. Heavy artillery units were dug in in wooded areas around Kyiv ready for action. The new Lviv front places Russian troops 340km from the Polish border. On Friday, the Russians placed the town of Chernihiv to siege on while also moving east to beef up their encirclement of the capital. Mykolayiv is also under siege and heavy bombardment. Western military analysts have found no indications that the Russian military is drawing lessons from the unforeseen resistance they have faced in the first two weeks of the war or preparing any radical changes of tactics.     They are sticking to their slow, relentless advance on the capital, ravaging Ukrainian towns and areas in their path and keeping urban areas under crippling shelling, ravaging whole towns and putting millions of civilians to flight. The Ukraine high command now believes that the Russian forces as they are today are not up to beating the Ukrainian army and/or withstanding a surge of guerilla warfare on their long supply lines. However, notwithstanding setbacks and delays caused by far fiercer and more effective than estimated Ukrainian military and popular resistance, the numerical disparity between their military strength and firepower will likely enable Moscow to seize the initiative on the battlefield. At the National Security Council meeting in Moscow on Friday, President Vladimir Putin approved Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu’s proposal to enlist 16,000 foreign volunteers for the Russian army, some of whom come from Syria (whose ruler Bashar Assad owes his survival from a long and bitter civil war to Russian military intervention.) Some Western analysts suggest that the Ukraine war will end with the partitioning of the embattled country between East Ukraine and West Ukraine. The Dnieper River may serve as the border between the two separate entities, acting much like the defunct Berlin Wall. The river rises in Russia and flows through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. West Ukraine, under this plan, would lose its outlet to the sea and therefore its economic lifeline for exports. A Third Russian general killed in the Ukraine war….     Major General Andrew Kolesnikov, [pictured above] commander of Russia’s 29th Army, is reported to have been killed in the fighting in Ukraine. This is the third Russian general to lose his life in the Ukraine war. It is estimated that around 20 generals run the Russian warfront. Russian war on Ukraine places Israel in an Awkward position…     11 March 2022 The more the U.S. is seen as unable or unwilling to act under such circumstances, the more will be said about whether Jerusalem can depend on Washington’s strength and credibility in the future. Israel could expect to see the arrival of a total of 15,000 Ukrainians by the end of the month if it continues to allow entry to refugees fleeing their war-torn country at the current pace, Since the outbreak of the war, 2,034 Ukrainian nationals have entered Israel. Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that Israel is “intent on exhausting every possible option in the hope of helping the Ukrainian people.” He said that Israel “takes pride” in being a homeland for the Jewish people. Israel has also sent 100 tons of medical equipment, winter gear and other emergency supplies to Ukraine so far, and announced plans to set up a field hospital this week in Ukraine. The current U.S administration is simply not as pro-Israel as the Trump era was and Israel is watching nervously to see just what the Biden presidency does in the coming days in view of the many dangers that could possibly mature into a wider conflict. This will determine just how strong the American ally is, and an indicator on just how much Israel can rely on help from that quarter should it be needed – and it sure looks like it will be required sooner rather than later? Zelensky to Bennett: Russia talks could take place in Jerusalem…….     On Saturday, the US said it is willing to take diplomatic steps that the Ukrainian government would find helpful, according to a State Department spokesperson after President Volodymyr Zelensky said the West should be more involved in negotiations to end the war. Moscow has said little about Prime Minister Bennett’s mediation efforts. It has issued terms including that Ukraine recognizes Crimea as Russian and Russian-backed breakaway areas as independent. Kyiv says it will not cede any territory. One official briefed on the mediation, and who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, envisaged a potential situation where the warring countries “put it (the recognition issue) on the side, perhaps for 10 or 15 years.” As a possible precedent, the official cited the Soviet-Japanese peace pact of 1956 that left the status of disputed islands unresolved. It was not immediately clear if the remarks reflected wider thinking in Kyiv or Moscow. The crisis diplomacy, coordinated with the United States, Germany and France, has been a high-wire act for Bennett. He has left it to his foreign minister to condemn the Russian invasion in Israel’s name. That, said another official, was meant to keep Putin’s door open to the Israeli prime minister. “Power in Russia is pooled entirely around this one man. It’s highly personal. Israel has managed relations with Russia through leader-to-leader contacts, and that requires avoiding soundbytes that might stir up ill will,” the official said. Citing the time that Putin and Zelensky have invested in speaking to – and through – Bennett, a senior official in Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Simona Halperin, said in a radio interview on Thursday the mediation efforts “certainly, certainly have a chance of succeeding.” North Korea plans ‘monster‘ missile launch by April: Analysts……..     12 March 2022 Pyongyang has conducted a record nine weapons tests so far this year, in what experts see as an effort to work through a laundry list of strategic weapons set out by leader Kim Jong Un. One top priority is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry multiple warheads – the Hwasong-17, dubbed a “monster missile” and first unveiled at a parade in October 2020. It has never been test-fired – but Washington said Thursday (March 10) Pyongyang had recently tested parts of it disguised as a satellite. North Korea has been observing a self-imposed moratorium on testing long range and nuclear weapons, but with talks stalled and sanctions still in place, it seems close to tearing it up.     World News Briefing…with Tom Hughes and Don Perkins – 10 March 2022     Israel Report Editor; Mike Claydon israelreport@mail.com