“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)
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Shadi Khalloul—Israel’s Christian Minority:
Last year, Israel recognized the existence of a group of Christians — “Arameans” — within its borders; an act that no Arab or Muslim nation from the Middle East has ever done or would ever do. Israel recognized a distinct religious and ethnic group: the indigenous people of the ancient Fertile Crescent.
Their language, Aramaic, was the language spoken by Jesus centuries before Islam came to the region.
Israel not only supports and gives Christians and other minorities — Druze, Muslims, Baha’i, everyone — full civil rights, freedom and legal rights to exist peacefully and practice their faith as they wish, but also to develop themselves as a minority with all the implications of differences in culture. Arabs, for instance, are welcomed into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but are not, as opposed to Jews, required to serve. Israel’s founding Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, humanely did not want Arabs to feel as if they were obliged fight their “brothers.”
In Israel, members of the Christian and Muslim minorities fill all types of high positions — just as any Jewish Israeli who wishes to have a successful career. There is the Maronite Christian Supreme Court Judge, Salim Jubran.
Contrary to propaganda, there is no “Apartheid” of any kind, and no roads on which only Jews may travel. Those roads are in Saudi Arabia, which has real Apartheid roads, since only Muslims may travel to Mecca.
Israel does this, moreover, in a neighborhood where most of its neighbors — often the most brutal enemies of humanity — wish Israel were wiped out and often do their utmost to make this wish come true. Sadly, many Europeans join in. Everyone has seen the recent vicious attempts by the European Union to snuff out Israel economically by labeling goods made in disputed territories. This requirement, made of no other country with a disputed border actually hinders any prospects for peace that working together is meant to bring about.
These Europeans are not fooling anyone. Their slyly sadistic, self-righteous “punishments” meant for Israel will only throw thousands of Palestinians out of well-paying, badly-needed work; these diktats also drive many newly out-of-work Palestinians to the employment bureau of last resort: Islamic extremism and terrorism. Ironically, these Europeans, to satisfy their wish to hurt Jews by pretending to help Palestinians, are actually seeding a new crop of terrorists who will later come to Europe and show them what they think of such hypocrites.
Widely discussed in the region is how the Europeans secretly want Israel wiped out, too, and are hoping that their new laws, combined with old Arab violence, will do the trick. That way, the Europeans can pretend to themselves that they had “nothing to do with it.” These Europeans need to know they are not fooling anyone.
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SnyderTalk Comment: There’s a scene in the movie The Usual Suspects in which Virgil Kint (played by Kevin Spacey) paraphrased this line from the French poet Baudelaire: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
Behind the scenes, a spiritual war is raging. It’s not visible to the naked eye, but you can see it through the lens that Yahweh gives to believers.
That doesn’t mean believers always use the gifts that Yahweh gives them. That’s one serious problem with Christianity.
The enemy can keep us from seeing Yahweh’s perspective if we let him. Far too many believers substitute their opinions for Yahweh’s word and think it doesn’t matter.
How wrong they are. Solomon explained the problem perfectly: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14: 12)
The world is going berserk. Despite all the wickedness taking place in every country, Israel has been singled out as the perpetrator of evil.
That’s an absurd lie, but it’s taking hold. It couldn’t happen unless the devil was behind it influencing people to believe that evil is good and good is evil.
Isaiah gave us a warning: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.” (Isaiah 5: 20)
When you see the word “woe” in the Bible, it means that Yahweh’s judgment is coming and that people are doing it to themselves. The judgments referred to in Revelation are woes.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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1: Tasnim News Agency—Iran Turns Threats into Opportunities: IRGC Commander:
“Although enemies invaded the Islamic Iran under flimsy excuses during years of sacred defense (the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in the 1980s), their main goal was to prevent the development and spread of the Islamic Revolution in the world,” Major General Jafari said in a speech on Tuesday.
He added that the confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the world’s hegemonic and arrogant powers has been continuing until today.
The IRGC commander emphasized that the nature of threats posed by the hegemonic system to Iran has covered various political, cultural and economic areas.
“Thank God, military and security threats against the Islamic Republic’s holy Establishment have turned into opportunities and led to the spread of discourse of the Islamic Revolution in the world,” Major General Jafari noted.
2: Reuters—Iran Seen Escaping UN Sanctions over Missiles Due to Ambiguous Resolution:
Iran will likely escape new UN sanctions for recent launches of what Western officials described as ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, UN Security Council diplomats said. The Security Council resolution adopted last July as part of the Iran nuclear deal “calls upon” Iran to refrain for up to eight years from activity, including launches, related to ballistic missiles designed with the capability of delivering nuclear weapons.
Key powers agree that request is not legally binding and cannot be enforced under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which deals with sanctions and authorization of military force. Western nations, which view the language as a ban, say there is a political obligation on Iran to comply. Russia, which has Security Council veto power, says Iran has not violated the resolution.
3: Dan Margalit—Turkey’s problem:
Terror-stricken Turkey is in a state of flux right now. The recent attacks there — be they of the Kurdish or Islamic State variety — have been extremely painful. But they are not at the heart of the main problem the country is facing. Turkey’s state of instability has been ongoing since Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now the country’s president, took power there more than a decade ago, initially as prime minister.
The deaths of three Israeli tourists in Saturday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul marks a national tragedy for Israel. But the bomber likely did not know whom he was killing.
Turkey has faced many difficulties during Erdogan’s time in power. Even while he was negotiating a deal with the European Union to take in migrants who had reached Greece, Erdogan also recently took over Turkey’s biggest opposition newspaper, Zaman.
And this weekend, Erdogan was courting Iran, which is now sanctions-free. But Erdogan is concurrently at odds with Russia, the main patron of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who also depends on support from Iran and Hezbollah. How will that work out?
4: Times of Israel—Iran said planning statue of captured American sailors:
Iran is reportedly planning to build a statue of 10 US sailors it briefly detained in its territorial waters in January.
The head of naval forces in the country’s Revolutionary Guards said the monument would be a “tourist attraction,” Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
According to the report, the statue will be erected on Kharg, a small Iranian island in the Persian Gulf close to the site of the arrests.
The sailors, nine men and one woman, were detained in January after they drifted into Iranian waters off Farsi Island, an outpost in the middle of the Persian Gulf that has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guards speedboats since the 1980s.
5: Douglas Murray—Hmm, Where Could All This Hatred Be Coming From?:
Not a month goes by in Britain without some left-wing proponent of anti-Jewish racism exposing themselves. Last month it was the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) that was found to be harbouring anti-Semites among its members. In recent weeks there have been a number of adult members of the Labour party who have been readmitted to the party or promoted within it while holding extreme anti-Jewish views.
The most recent case revolves around one Vicki Kirby, a Labour parliamentary candidate before the last general election, when she was suspended from the party for tweeting about Jews having “big noses,” Adolf Hitler being the “Zionist god” and other ramblings. Naturally, Ms. Kirby’s suspension has since been lifted. As with the Labour party students at Oxford, it is very hard to argue that party members should have zero-tolerance towards anti-Semites when the party’s current leader has spent his whole career happily tolerating them. Last week it came to public attention that Ms. Kirby had now become the vice-chair of her local party chapter.
SnyderTalk Comment: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
6: CNN—Belgium: Europe’s front line in the war on terror:
Brussels: It’s a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, as a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters.
According to police, the carnage of the Paris attacks was plotted here, and it was in these streets that fugitive Salah Abdeslam hid out in an apartment after abandoning his mission, dumping his suicide belt in a Parisian street and calling friends for help, after apparently driving his co-conspirators to their deaths.
That Abdeslam was caught at all appears to have been an enormous stroke of luck. Despite a massive security operation, the trail appeared to have gone cold, until police, initiating a search for evidence at Abdeslam’s safe house on Tuesday, encountered a barrage of gunfire which tipped them off that something — or someone — important was inside.
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SnyderTalk Comment: If nations were judged correctly, Israel would be seen widely as the greatest nation on earth.
Israel isn’t perfect, but it’s head and shoulders above the competition.
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Special Section in Video: The New Exodus
SnyderTalk Comment: This must happen because Yahweh declared it:
“And He will lift up a standard for the nations and assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” (Isaiah 11: 12)
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
