A TRUTHFUL AND BALANCED
PERSPECTIVE ON ISRAEL
PERSPECTIVE ON ISRAEL
Israel Today Staff — Palestinian Arab terrorists boarded a public bus in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and began a bloody assault that left two people dead and another 15 wounded, eight of whom remain in serious-to-critical condition.The attack happened in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv. In an interview with Arutz Sheva Radio, the driver of the bus behind the one targeted by the terrorists recalled the horror:
“…Yisrael - the other driver, my friend - got out of the bus and ran towards my bus (shouting): ‘stop, stop, there’s a terrorist in the bus.’ …he shouted to me ‘he’s slaughtering them, he’s slaughtering them,’ and we had nothing we could do, we were trying to contact the police, there’s nothing we could do.”
As the two bus drivers tried frantically to contact police (who were in fact already en route), the two terrorists, one armed with a gun and the other with a large knife, closed the doors of the first bus and began to systematically stab, hack and shoot each passenger they came across.
And it wasn’t the only attack of the morning in Jerusalem. Across town near the entrance to the capital, a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into a bus stop, killing a 60-year-old rabbi and wounding another. The terrorist then jumped out of his car and stabbed two more people before being shot by police.
Elsewhere, five Israelis were wounded in two separate terrorist stabbings in the central town of Raanana. In both instances, the attackers were Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem.
Tuesday’s wave of attacks come just a day after several serious terror incidents in Jerusalem, one of which left a 13-year-old Jewish boy fighting for his life after being assaulted by two knife-wielding Arab teenagers from the adjacent neighborhood.
A senior security official told The Jerusalem Post that the series of attacks increasingly appears to be “a planned and timed assault.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of his security cabinet to address the situation. Government and municipal officials were said to be in favor of closing off Arab neighborhoods on the eastern side of Jerusalem until the attacks cease.
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THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB REGARDING ISRAEL
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Genesis 12:3 ~ King James Version Bible
REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: OCTOBER 13, 2015
BECAUSE MUCH REWRITING OF THE BIBLE
& HISTORY IS OBSCURING THE TRUTH
& HISTORY IS OBSCURING THE TRUTH
KING DAVID
RULER OF ISRAEL & JUDAH, 1010 - 970 B.C.
FOUNDER OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM
Quote Source
The Very Word of God: The Book of Psalms: 103, King James Bible “Authorized Version”
DAVID’S BIOGRAPHY
Corroborated by Archaeology and Documented by More
Ancient Manuscripts Than All Other Books Dating From Antiquity
Ancient Manuscripts Than All Other Books Dating From Antiquity
The biblical KING DAVID OF ISRAEL was known for his diverse skills as both a warrior and a writer of psalms. In his 40 years as ruler, between circa 1010 and 970 B.C. (before Christ), he united the people of Israel, led them to victory in battle, conquered land and paved the way for his son, Solomon, to build the Holy Temple. Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the books of the Prophets and Writings: Samuel I and II, Kings I and Chronicles I.
THE TEL DAN INSCRIPTION:
THE FIRST HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF
KING DAVID FROM THE BIBLE
KING DAVID FROM THE BIBLE
9th-Century B.C. Tel Dan Inscription
References The “House of David”
References The “House of David”
Few modern Biblical archaeology discoveries have caused as much excitement as the Tel Dan inscription—writing on a ninth-century B.C. stone slab (or stela) that furnished the first historical evidence of King David from the Bible.
“FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS”
~ John Adams, 2nd U.S. President
NEWS BRIEFS: OCTOBER 13, 2015
CURRENT EVENTS AND COMMENTARIES
SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
BIBLE PROPHECY IN THE NEWS
ON THIS WEEK’S ‘ENDTIME 777’ EDITION
• Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson likened some attempts at gun control measures to measures that he says Nazi Germany took to disarm the public prior to the Holocaust. (Oct. 9)
• The White House was lit up pink Friday evening to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. This time-lapse video shows the illuminated building standing in stark contrast to the thick rain clouds rolling overhead as a storm approached. (Oct. 9)
• White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that President Obama called the president of Doctors Without Borders, as well as the Afghan president to express his condolences for the accidental bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Oct. 7)
• POTUS met with family members of those killed and wounded in last week's shooting at a community college in Oregon. More funerals for the victims are scheduled for today and tomorrow.
• President Obama wants to tighten gun-control laws.
• The hospital appeared to be struck by an airstrike believed to be targeting the Taliban.
• Violence is raging in different parts of‘Palestine’ (Palestine?) it’s Israel. Several people have been killed in clashes on the Gaza border, while heavy scuffles have also been seen on the West Bank. Clashes have intensified in the region since the start of the month.
• Washington has abandoned its strategy to train the rebels in Syria. The Pentagon’s announced its pulling the plug on the 500 million-dollar campaign to build an opposition force on the ground - after just one year, well short of expectations.
• Street fires, hurled stones and rubber bullets are now an everyday occurence in the West Bank (SAMARIA & JUDAH) as the conflict between Palestinians and Israeli security forces worsens. Ramallah and Bethlehem have become the latest violence hotspots.
• The medical aid group calls for an investigation into the U.S. airstrike that hit a hospital, killing at least 22.
• Clashes between protesters and police erupted in Amman on Friday during a demonstration against violence surrounding events at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.
• Israeli President Reuven Rivlin held his annual foreign media address in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and said that “Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the status-quo” on the Al-Aqsa compound, a sacred site both for Muslims and Jews, as tensions are rising after three weeks of violence.
• On the Jewish holiday of 'Simchat-Torah', some 2,500 right-wing Israelis gathered next to the prime minister's house in Jerusalem, to call on him to tighten the struggle against terror and to build new settlements in the West Bank (SAMARIA & JUDAH).
• The UN rights chief has voiced concern about reports that over 130 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli live ammunition in recent days.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the recent wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis on incitement by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and some other regional countries.
• While vowing a crackdown on inciters with nobody immune, the Israeli prime minister also ordered all politicians away from the Temple Mount for now to avoid further escalation.
• These items and many more...
• The White House was lit up pink Friday evening to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. This time-lapse video shows the illuminated building standing in stark contrast to the thick rain clouds rolling overhead as a storm approached. (Oct. 9)
• White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that President Obama called the president of Doctors Without Borders, as well as the Afghan president to express his condolences for the accidental bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Oct. 7)
• POTUS met with family members of those killed and wounded in last week's shooting at a community college in Oregon. More funerals for the victims are scheduled for today and tomorrow.
• President Obama wants to tighten gun-control laws.
• The hospital appeared to be struck by an airstrike believed to be targeting the Taliban.
• Violence is raging in different parts of
• Washington has abandoned its strategy to train the rebels in Syria. The Pentagon’s announced its pulling the plug on the 500 million-dollar campaign to build an opposition force on the ground - after just one year, well short of expectations.
• Street fires, hurled stones and rubber bullets are now an everyday occurence in the West Bank (SAMARIA & JUDAH) as the conflict between Palestinians and Israeli security forces worsens. Ramallah and Bethlehem have become the latest violence hotspots.
• The medical aid group calls for an investigation into the U.S. airstrike that hit a hospital, killing at least 22.
• Clashes between protesters and police erupted in Amman on Friday during a demonstration against violence surrounding events at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.
• Israeli President Reuven Rivlin held his annual foreign media address in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and said that “Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the status-quo” on the Al-Aqsa compound, a sacred site both for Muslims and Jews, as tensions are rising after three weeks of violence.
• On the Jewish holiday of 'Simchat-Torah', some 2,500 right-wing Israelis gathered next to the prime minister's house in Jerusalem, to call on him to tighten the struggle against terror and to build new settlements in the West Bank (SAMARIA & JUDAH).
• The UN rights chief has voiced concern about reports that over 130 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli live ammunition in recent days.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the recent wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis on incitement by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and some other regional countries.
• While vowing a crackdown on inciters with nobody immune, the Israeli prime minister also ordered all politicians away from the Temple Mount for now to avoid further escalation.
• These items and many more...
BERNIE SANDERS: “I WILL DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD”
EVEN THOUGH IT SELLS ABORTED BABY PARTS
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com — Put Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the same category as Hillary Clinton — a staunch defender of the Planned Parenthood abortion business despite the fact that it sells the body parts of aborted babies.
In a recent interview, Sanders said, “I will defend Planned Parenthood” and said he thinks criticism of the abortion giant selling aborted babies is part of the so-called war on women...
In a recent interview, Sanders said, “I will defend Planned Parenthood” and said he thinks criticism of the abortion giant selling aborted babies is part of the so-called war on women...
‘PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE’
TERRORISM IN TURKEY
SKYWATCH TV: DAILY NEWS UPDATE
ON TODAY’S EDITION
Nearly 100 were killed and over 200 wounded in a suicide bombing Saturday in Ankara.
Also...
• Russia steps up airstrikes in Syria;
• U.S. shuts down train-and-equip program for Syrian rebels;
• Iran tests new long-range missile;
• Major oil discovery in Israel;
• The CIA admits a cover-up in the JFK assassination.
• These items and more...
HALLOWEEN IS THE BIGGEST DAY
OF THE YEAR FOR THE FASTEST
GROWING RELIGION IN AMERICA
OF THE YEAR FOR THE FASTEST
GROWING RELIGION IN AMERICA
By Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream — If you are a witch, Halloween is not just another holiday. For Wiccans, the festival known as “Samhain” is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest, and so communication with the other side is the easiest. And as you will see below, it is also the time “when the god dies, to be reborn again on the Winter Solstice”. Many Americans are still very unfamiliar with Wicca, but the truth is that it is rapidly growing in popularity. In fact, it has been projected that Wicca will soon become the third largest “religion” in America after Christianity and Islam. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, the number of self-identified Wiccans in the United States grew from 8,000 in 1990 to 134,000 in 2001 to 342,000 in 2008. The New York Post recently ran an article which stated that some experts have estimated that the number of witches in the U.S. is doubling every 30 months, and that there may now be “8 million undeclared practitioners” of “the craft” in this country.
So needless to say, this is a group of people that is very much growing in numbers and in influence. And of course not all of them believe the exact same things. Among various Wiccan groups there is tremendous variation in doctrine and practice.
One common thread that you will find among many of them, however, is a disdain for “Halloween”. They tend to consider most Halloween traditions to be distorted Christianized versions of ancient pagan practices, and most of them are not really too thrilled with the mixing of the two.
For most Wiccans, the proper name for the day is “Samhain”, and it is a celebration that they take very seriously. The following comes from a piece that was authored by a self-described “modern-day pagan and real-life Wiccan”...
So needless to say, this is a group of people that is very much growing in numbers and in influence. And of course not all of them believe the exact same things. Among various Wiccan groups there is tremendous variation in doctrine and practice.
One common thread that you will find among many of them, however, is a disdain for “Halloween”. They tend to consider most Halloween traditions to be distorted Christianized versions of ancient pagan practices, and most of them are not really too thrilled with the mixing of the two.
For most Wiccans, the proper name for the day is “Samhain”, and it is a celebration that they take very seriously. The following comes from a piece that was authored by a self-described “modern-day pagan and real-life Wiccan”...
IS BARACK OBAMA ACTUALLY TRYING TO START WORLD WAR III?
By Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse — Why has Barack Obama airdropped 50 tons of ammunition into areas that “moderate rebels” in Syria supposedly control? This is essentially the equivalent of poking the Russians directly in the eyes. Much of this ammunition will end up in the hands of those that the Russians are attempting to bomb into oblivion, and so to Russia it appears that we are attempting to make their job much harder. And of course the truth is that there aren’t really any “moderate rebels” in Syria at all. Nearly all of the groups that are fighting are made up primarily of radical jihadists and/or hired mercenaries. Personally, I don’t see anyone over there that you could call “the good guys”. At the end of the day, the U.S. supports just about anyone that wants to get rid of the Assad regime, and the Russians are working very hard to keep Assad in power. Just like the civil war in Ukraine, the conflict in Syria is in great danger of being transformed into a proxy war between the United States and Russia, and many fear that these conflicts could eventually be setting the stage for World War III.
The ferocity of Russian airstrikes in Syria has surprised observers all over the planet, and over the past couple of days these airstrikes have been extended to include some new areas...
The ferocity of Russian airstrikes in Syria has surprised observers all over the planet, and over the past couple of days these airstrikes have been extended to include some new areas...
THE SOUTH CHINA SEA SYNDROME:
ANOTHER NAIL IN AMERICA’S COFFIN
By Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show — Sixteen days ago, President Obama and Chinese President Xi sounded as if they were moving forward in a positive manner. The only real point of contention when the two world leaders met at the White House was Taiwan. Oh, on paper, it appears that China’s dispute is with Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Look at the map below and make a note of what Island lies just north of the disputed area. It is Taiwan. This conflict is also about China building a defensive perimeter in the South China Sea and using it as a defensive perimeter, in a manner similar to what the Japanese did nearly three quarters of a century ago...
WWIII HAS BEGUN:
CHINESE WARPLANES JOIN THEIR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS
CHINESE WARPLANES JOIN THEIR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS
IN DEVASTATING AIR RAIDS AGAINST
ISIS TERRORISTS
ISIS TERRORISTS
By All Self Sustained — China has told Moscow that they will join in the bombing in Syria from their Aircraft Carrier. This has HUGE implications folks. HUGE!
It is a well-known fact that the Nation of Iran today has two chief allies, Russia and China. They have stood by Iran through the thick and thin especially with controlling interest as permanent members of the United Nation’s Security Council. Without Russian and China, Shiite Iran would have been history decades ago.
Today again, they are proving that they will be prepared to stand in opposition to the United States and NATO because all four are vying for world dominion. So also the rest of the world’s prophetic nations are aligning themselves either for or again either of two global forces...
It is a well-known fact that the Nation of Iran today has two chief allies, Russia and China. They have stood by Iran through the thick and thin especially with controlling interest as permanent members of the United Nation’s Security Council. Without Russian and China, Shiite Iran would have been history decades ago.
Today again, they are proving that they will be prepared to stand in opposition to the United States and NATO because all four are vying for world dominion. So also the rest of the world’s prophetic nations are aligning themselves either for or again either of two global forces...
RUSSIAN WEAKNESS?
» Cartoonist: Bob Gorrell born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Bob Gorrell attended the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977. Gorrell moved to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1992, and served there as editorial cartoonist until resigning in January 1998 to concentrate on syndicated editorial and comics page features. From October 2001 through January 2004, Gorrell was Editorial Cartoonist for AOL News. That platform gives Gorrell one of the nation’s largest daily audiences from among AOL’s 33 million subscribers.
JESUS PRIVATELY BRIEFING HIS
(INNER CIRCLE)
REGARDING THE LAST DAYS
(INNER CIRCLE)
REGARDING THE LAST DAYS
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”GOT JESUS?