“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My Name will be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My Name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My Name will be great among the Gentiles,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Malachi 1: 11)
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Times of Israel Staff—Jerusalem mayor calls on residents to carry guns:
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday encouraged all Israelis with a gun license to carry a weapon with them at all times in order to counter a recent wave of Palestinian attacks.
The mayor’s call to arms came after several weeks in which the capital was rocked by several stabbing incidents as well as rock and Molotov cocktail attacks. The focus of violence was in and around the Old City and its Temple Mount compound.
In an interview with Army Radio, Barkat responded to footage of himself walking around the city at night carrying what at first glance appeared to be a rifle, asserting that reports “simply got the facts wrong.”
The gun in question, he said, was a Glock 23 handgun, paired with a pistol-to-carbine conversion kit that “makes the gun more accurate and thus safer.”
“I have a licensed gun,” Barkat said. “Every time there is tension, I instruct people who are allowed to carry weapons and are experienced in using them to carry their guns with them. If you check, you’ll see that in many cases, those who neutralized terrorists were citizens who aren’t necessarily police officers, like former soldiers.”
Earlier, the Jerusalem Police said it would install metal detectors in the Old City’s gates. The move is part of efforts to secure the area and prevent people from entering the Old City with guns or knives. The detectors are similar to those deployed at the entrances to malls and central bus stations in Israel, and are meant to have a deterrent effect on potential assailants.
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SnyderTalk Comment: When I first started exploring Israel about 20 years ago, ordinary Israeli citizens routinely carried guns especially in Jerusalem. It was open carry, not concealed carry. There was much less violence then than there is today.
Over time, carrying guns in Israel came to be viewed as radical by the political left-wing. Today, fewer people carry guns and violence has increased dramatically.
Mayor Barkat is using good old common sense. It’s much easier to victimize an unarmed person than an armed person.
Most criminals and terrorists will go out of their way to avoid putting their lives at risk. They know that there are many easy, unarmed targets to prey on so why take chances?
That’s common sense, too. Political left-wingers don’t have it.
Carrying guns won’t eliminate criminals or terrorists. It’s just a step in the right direction if your goal is to reduce the carnage that criminals and terrorists inflict on innocent victims.
Below is a picture of me with a young Israeli woman who had just completed her IDF service. Her summer job before college was to protect Israeli children on field trips. The picture was taken at Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum. It was 2003. Jerusalem was a much safer place then.
The rifle wasn’t a fashion accessory.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh. Both of them explain the importance of God’s Name.
The website is loaded with factual information that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yahweh is our Savior and that the Messiah is Yahweh.
I hope you will take a few minutes and explore the website. I also hope you will share it with your friends and family.
It’s time for believers to tell the world about our God by His Name—Yahweh.
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Raymond Ibrahim—How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom:
Everywhere that U.S. leadership helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are forced either to convert to Islam or die.
Many are accepting death.
Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 Christians for saying they “would never renounce Christ” for Muhammad.
The jihadis took one group in front of a large crowd. They cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy, who steadfastly refused to submit to Islam. They “severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam.” He refused, so they “also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”
Khaled Abu Toameh—Abbas Calls for Murder, Palestinians Attack:
The Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas, cannot evade responsibility for the latest wave of terror attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
True, in the end it turned out that Hamas was behind the murder of Eitam and Naama Henkin in front of their four children, but there is no ignoring the fact that the anti-Israel incitement of Abbas and other Palestinian leaders in Ramallah paved the way for the terrorists to carry out this and other attacks.
The incitement, which has been around for many years, intensified after the arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsha family in the West Bank village of Duma in July.
Caroline Glick—Abbas Must Be Stopped:
All the Palestinian terrorist attacks that have been carried out in recent weeks share one common feature. All the terrorists believe that by attacking Jews they are protecting the Temple Mount from destruction.
And why shouldn’t they believe this obscenity? Everywhere they go, every time they turn on their televisions, read the paper, go to school or the mosque they are told that the Jews are destroying al-Aksa Mosque. Al-Aksa, they are told, is in danger. They must take up arms to defend it from the Jews, whatever the cost.
One man stands at the center of this blood libel. The man who propagates this murderous lie and orchestrates the death and mayhem that is its bloody harvest is none other than the West’s favorite Palestinian moderate: PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Caroline Glick—Israel’s risk aversion problem:
On Wednesday the Obama administration was caught off guard by Russia’s rapid rise in Syria. As the Russians began bombing a US-supported militia along the Damascus-Homs highway, Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, at the UN. Just hours before their meeting Kerry was insisting that Russia’s presence in Syria would likely be a positive development.
Reacting to the administration’s humiliation, Republican Sen. John McCain said, “This administration has confused our friends, encouraged our enemies, mistaken an excess of caution for prudence and replaced the risks of action with the perils of inaction.”
McCain added that Russian President Vladimir Putin had stepped “into the wreckage of this administration’s Middle East policy.”
While directed at the administration, McCain’s general point is universally applicable. Today is no time for an overabundance of caution.
The system of centralized regimes that held sway in the Arab world since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago has unraveled. The shape of the new order has yet to be determined.
Jews News—Saudis Clear Airspace for Israel Attack on Iran Nukes:
Whispered in the shadows of power in recent years that the Saudis have come to a secret military alliance with the supposed much hated Israelis.
In the meantime, many Middle East watchers are of the opinion that the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia consider Iran to be a much greater threat than any Jewish government that could ever come out of Jerusalem.
As noted by the Washington Free Beacon on Feb. 25, 2015, Israel’s Channel Two News is reporting that the Saudis have very quietly given the Israelis permission to fly over Saudi.
MEMRI—The Iran Deal is not fully agreed and no one wants to talk about it:
On September 3, 2015, not two months after the July 14 announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action at Vienna and its celebration at the White House and in Europe, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dropped a bombshell.
In a speech to the Iranian Assembly of Experts, he backtracked from the agreement, demanding a new concession: that the sanctions be “lifted,” not merely “suspended.” If that term is not changed, said Khamenei, there is no agreement. If the West only “suspends” the sanctions, he added, Iran will merely “suspend” its obligations. Giving further credence to his threat, he announced that it is the Iranian Majlis that must discuss and approve the agreement (or not), because it represents the people – when it is well known that the majority of its members oppose it, and Iranian President Hassan Rohani made every effort to prevent such a discussion in the Majlis from taking place.
Adding insult to injury, Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to Khamenei and head of Iran’s Center for Strategic Research, said on September 19 that the negotiations, concluded and celebrated less than two months previously on July 14, are actually “not over yet.”
Khamenei’s demand to replace “suspension” with “lifting” is not just semantic. It is a fundamental change, because the snapback of sanctions – the major security mechanism for the entire agreement – cannot take place with “lifting,” but only with “suspension.”
Prime Minister’s Office—Netanyahu: The Flames of Radical Islam Are Reaching Israel:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at a press conference: “We are in the midst of a wave of terrorism. Terrorists that have been incited and who are riven with hate are trying to attack our people – babies, children, men and women, civilians and soldiers….Israelis are acting with bravery, composure and determination to neutralize and eliminate the terrorists.”
“This vicious terrorism did not start today. It has accompanied the Zionist enterprise since its beginning. We have always known how to defeat the rioters and build up our country and so it will be now. The terrorists and the extremists behind them will achieve nothing. We will rebuff them and we will defeat them….We live in the Middle East and the flames of radical Islam, which are burning the entire region, are also reaching us. But Israel is a very strong country and Israelis are a strong people….We have a difficult situation now and we must show maximum alertness.”
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman—The Palestinian Victimhood Narrative as an Obstacle to Peace:
The speech delivered by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas at the UN General Assembly last week was proof, once again, that the Palestinian “narrative” of victimhood has become a threat to any practical prospect for peace. No mention can be made of the recent rise in Palestinian terror activities; no mention of the Palestinian decision to walk away from the framework advanced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry; no word on Hamas’ habitual shelling of Israeli civilian targets. There is also no mention of the collapse of all past peace efforts. In other words, all that the Palestinians have ever suffered is someone else’s fault.
Any sober assessment of what it would take to strike an Israeli-Palestinian deal inevitably leads to the clear understanding that painful but practical political compromises are required from both sides. Alas, this concept seems alien to many in the region, particularly to Palestinians; and the international community is not doing its part to help the Palestinians mature towards this realization. Global actors that want to help achieve peace need to assist the Palestinians in moving beyond wallowing in self-pity and rituals of bashing Israel.
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik—Why Is Jaffa Being Attacked?:
Should anyone be shocked or surprised that Palestinian terrorism is hitting Jaffa, Petah Tikva and Kiryat Gat – all cities that have been part of Israel since its creation? Palestinian leaders are constantly indoctrinating their people with the message that Jaffa and all of Israel are also under “occupation,” eventually to be “liberated” and come under Palestinian rule. Official PA TV told children on May 23, 2015: “Jaffa, and not only Jaffa but also Haifa, Acre, Nazareth and all the Palestinian cities occupied in 1948 will return to us one day.” For years, the PA has been transmitting this message.
A poll conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last year found that 60% of Palestinians believe that the “five-year goal should be to work toward reclaiming all of historic Palestine.” To the majority of Palestinians, there is no legitimate Israel and no legitimate Israelis. Every Israeli is a “settler” and every “settler” is a legitimate target.
Dennis Ross—How Obama Got to “Yes” on Iran: The Inside Story:
When President Obama visited Israel in March 2013, Prime Minister Netanyahu would say, “I’m absolutely convinced that the president is determined to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And I appreciate that.” That firm confidence lapsed by the time of my meeting with the prime minister on Nov. 8 of that year.
In the intervening time, Hassan Rouhani had been elected president in Iran and the U.S. had opened a back channel to the Iranians. Over the course of 2014, as the administration showed its readiness to accept an industrial-scale Iranian nuclear program and not roll it back, the gap with the Israelis reemerged, and Netanyahu became far more outspoken in his criticism of a possible deal.
Nadav Pollack—Why Israel Should Be Worried about Russia’s Role in Syria:
Giora Eiland, who was the national security advisor under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told me that Hizbullah will need to take into account the Russian interest of maintaining peace with Israel and might therefore avoid provoking the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said curtailing the Islamic State’s advance toward western Syria will be another benefit for Israel. But, overall, it appears that Russia’s involvement will be a net negative for Israel.
During the Second Lebanon War, in 2006, Hizbullah targeted Israeli tanks with an array of advanced anti-tank missiles. Most of them were Russian-made and had been sold to Syria, yet somehow ended up in Hizbullah’s arms depots. Russia’s growing presence in Syria will limit Israel’s ability to cope with these arms shipments to Hizbullah. Given the advanced Russian surface-to-air missiles recently installed in Syria, Israel would need to think hard before ordering an attack deep inside Syria.
For Israel, an assertive Russia that looks to revive its relations with Arab countries mainly through military exports and nuclear energy cooperation should be troubling.
Charles Recknagel—Russian Syria Bombing Jeopardizes Its Ties with Sunni World:
Moscow could lose significant influence in the Middle East as nations there react angrily to its bombing of Syrian opposition targets. Russia has enraged Turkey by launching air strikes against Islamist groups in Syria that Ankara supports. This is delaying a massive new Russian gas pipeline project with Turkey. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and many other states have repeatedly called on Moscow to halt its bombing campaign.
“It is almost completely unanimous that the Arab governments are against the [Russian] bombing campaign,” said Paul du Quenoy, a professor of history at the American University of Beirut. “Most of the Russian targets, including the [secular] Free Syrian Army and most of the Islamist opposition groups, are Sunni Muslims and most of the Arab states have majority Sunni populations.”
One Arab capital, Cairo, has spared Moscow from criticism. “We believe that the [Russian intervention] will have an impact on the fight against terrorism in Syria and help eliminate it,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said on Oct. 4. Boris Zilberman, an analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, says Cairo appears to consider cooperating with Russia more important than forcing out Assad, after deals that Russia recently signed with Egypt on economic cooperation, arms, and a potential agreement on civil nuclear energy.
Kevin Sullivan—“Till Martyrdom Do Us Part”:
In Islamic State propaganda, life for women in the caliphate is filled with love, children and the joys of domestic life.
But the reality is often far more harsh for women who have moved there from the Arab world, Europe or the U.S., according to specialists who monitor Islamic State social media.
Those women, drawn by romantic notions of supporting revolutionaries and living in a state that exalts their religion, can quickly find themselves part of an institutionalized, near-assembly-line system to provide fighters with wives, sex and children.
And when their husbands are killed, they are expected to celebrate their “martyrdom” and then quickly marry other fighters.
According to interviews with women whose cities and towns have been overtaken by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the militants would use any pretext to detain women:
“They use the women prisoners for wives for the foreign fighters. If you go to prison, you are given away to God-only-knows who.”
One woman described what happened to a neighbor’s daughter, who had been jailed because her husband was a soldier in the Syrian army. “They told her, ‘Either you marry a fighter, or we will cut off your head and hang it in the square.’ So she married the fighter.”
Edward N. Luttwak—Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies:
In these grim times, I am afforded light relief by CNN—the only news channel offered by the treadmill of my Tokyo apartment house—as its presenters and pundits gravely debate the motives behind Putin’s investment in Syria. His own version is that he is fighting “extremism,” which oddly enough is the same dark threat that President Barack Obama also recognizes while rigorously avoiding the qualifiers Islamic, Islamist, or Muslim—although he will refer to Isol, prompting the thought that it is impossible to defeat an enemy one is afraid to name. There is no Isol or even Isis anymore, because the good old ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fi’l-ʿIraq wa-sh-Sham—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—has long since become the Islamic State of everywhere from Nigeria to Afghanistan, no doubt also including the British Isles and Michigan. Ignoring earnest declarations of its un-Islamic character solemnly issued by non-Muslim presidents, premiers, and prelates, volunteers who recognize the authenticity of the Islamic State keep pouring into its still-expanding borders, easily offsetting the casualties inflicted by the very expensive U.S. bombing campaign, now joined by the British, French, … and Putin, whose air force already claims dozens of air strikes against the common foe.
Putin’s enthusiasm for the great cause might be expected to earn him some gratitude. Instead, the Russian leader is criticized by wise CNN pundits—and by the Obama Administration—for seeking to defend his client Assad by bombing his other enemies as well, i.e., the dozens of quarreling Islamist bands that grandly call themselves Jaysh al-Fatah, “the army of conquest,” the several quarreling factions of Syrian Army defectors that call themselves al-Jaysh as-Suri al-Ḥurr, “the free Syrian army,” the unabashedly extremist al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat an-Nuṣrah, which is much stronger than both, and, above all, the brave “pro-democracy” warriors armed and trained by the United States itself, under a $500 million program.
SnyderTalk Comment: Like it or not, Putin is doing what he should do. He is defending his allies by attacking their enemies.
Obama should be doing the same thing. Instead, he’s defending our enemies and attacking our allies.
If that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.
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Female Palestinian terrorist shot after stabbing Jewish man in latest Jerusalem attack
Netanyahu confused, the West Bank is on the brink of an intifada
Clashes erupt after Shuafat funeral; firebomb-wielding Palestinian shot, wounded
Hundreds face off in Australian town in anti-Islam protest
Analysis: Israel security is in the eye of the beholder
Does Susan Rice think Benjamin Netanyahu is a racist?
A wave of terror, not an intifada
Analysis: Gulf states boost aid to Syrian rebels
Netanyahu offered vague terms for West Bank withdrawal, former US peace negotiator says
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Ya’alon: We Don’t Want an Escalation but Don’t Try Us
Wife of Shomron Council Head Wounded in Accident Caused by Rocks
Shalom to Revoke Citizenship of Israeli Arab Terrorists
ISIS Advancing on Aleppo Despite Russian Airstrikes
Naftali Bennett Personally Removes Terror Flags
Left-Wing, Arab MKs Protest in Tel Aviv
Foreign Ministry Lays Bare Palestinian Incitement
Kiryat Arba Police Arrest Jews After Arab Riot
Arab Rioters Killed Trying to Storm Gaza Border
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Boosted by Nuke Deal, Iran Ups Funding to Hizbullah, Hamas
Attempted Afula stabber identified as Nazareth woman
Two Israelis stabbed in Friday attacks in Jerusalem, West Bank
Netanyahu’s message to Israelis: Trust me, and we’ll beat this terror war, too
PM denounces incitement, vows to ‘return security’ to Israel
Hamas leader declares ‘intifada’ in the West Bank
PM shelves Western Wall building project over security fears
Israelis buy pepper spray, sign up to self-defense courses as stabbing attacks surge
Israel and the Palestinians slide deeper into conflict
Police arrest dozens as Nazareth protest turns violent
With terror raging, Abbas is in a state of denial
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Hamas Joins Fatah/PA Campaign Claiming Temple Mount Jewish Takeover
New York Times Gives Credence to Muslim Claims of No Jewish Temples Ever on Temple Mount
Gunners give Obama lesson on politicizing school shootings
Coming to a mosque near you … thousands to protest Muslim invasion
Minneapolis Muslim migrant charged with brutally raping 10-year-old girl
Fatah Officials: Killing “Settlers” Is Legal and a “National Duty”
Palestinian Stabbings Cause Jewish Blood to Flow in the Streets of Jerusalem
Footage Emerges of Israeli Troops Shooting Knife-Wielding Israeli Arab, as Terror Wave Continues
Susan Rice’s “Combative” Tone Damaged Relations with Israel, Ex-Aide Writes
Quebec Judge: Israeli Military Activity in Gaza Is Self-Defense
Palestinians Sharing Pictures of Dead Israelis
A lynching over beef-eating is part of a rising tide of Hindu nationalism in Modi’s India
Mob killing of Indian Muslim over beef rumor sparks online backlash
How a Muslim veil is dominating Canada’s election race
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Russian Missiles Heading for Syria Landed in Iran
Russia’s Cruise Missiles Raise the Stakes
Gulf States Increase Arms to Syrian Rebels to Counter Russian Airstrikes
SnyderTalk Comment: The Syrian civil war has turned into a proxy war. It’s Russia and Iran vs. the Persian Gulf states.
China has entered the game on Russia’s and Iran’s side. See “China Joining Russia In Syria Brings Risks Of World War”.
I think their ultimate objective is to establish a stronghold on Israel’s NE border. If that’s not the goal now, I think it will be in the days ahead.
That meshes perfectly with Iran’s stated objective—to wipe Israel off the map.
Leading Iran General Killed in Syria
Iran’s Post-Deal Economic Stagnation Challenges Rouhani
At least 86 killed in twin blast in Turkey’s Ankara ahead of peace rally
Blasts kill scores at peace rally in Turkey in sign of worsening instability
Turkish President Erdoğan condemns Ankara bomb attack
Four terror groups may be behind Ankara attack: Turkish PM
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Exodus 26
1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements. 3 Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another. 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set. 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite each other. 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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