A Boycott Against Israel (NOT IRAN?)

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A Boycott Against Israel (NOT IRAN?)

Thus Saith The LORD “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2

Any Church Denomination who sides with the so-called Palestinian's plight is slamming the Israelis right to exist and support Hamas and the PLO goal for Israel total annihilation.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS: UNITED CHURCH REVEALS OBSESSION WITH ISRAEL

I'm writing this commentary because I love God, my Fellow Christians, and Israel. It is a grave error to blame Israel for oppressing the Palestinians. It is my hope that many will change their view concerning Israel.

*You may view the article on the ucobserver web site The United Church still matters

The United Church of Canada General Assembly recommended a boycott of products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is prepared to suffer any political backlash that comes his way for speaking out against anti-Israel rhetoric. Canadian PM: I Will Defend Israel 'whatever the cost'

Israel is the apple of God's eye

It irritates God eyes when nations, churches or individuals mess with Israel.   "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” Gen 12:3. 

On the fifth day of the August 2012 General Council meeting The United Church Council had vote to adopt 12 parts of a 13 - part motion, including one "encouraging members of the United Church to avoid any and all products produced in the settlement."

"Supporting a boycott against Israel settlement products put United Church beside the U.S. Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church and the British Methodist Church, all of whom have taken similar actions",

(The United Church Observer - October 2012[1])

Here is a statement made by the General Assembly in the October 2012 issue The United Church Observer¹ page 23: "General Council's encouragement to "avoid any and all products produced in the settlements" raises the question:?"" The General Assembly then list brands and products, which they assume, connected to the settlement.

This is pure political hypocrisy from the part of the United Church of Canada General Council, although the boycott is a proposal, the General Council had already formulated which Israel settlement product they encourage their members to avoid. This list is based on research by the Interfaith Peace Initiative, End The Occupation, Meretz U.S.A., Canadians for Justice and Peace in The Middle East, and the Coalition of Women for Peace. (The list available here)

At a gaze, these Organizations seem to have anti-Zionist trait. What is anti-Zionist? Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionistic views or opposition to the state of Israel. What motivates United Church of Canada to follow them?

Interfaith Peace Initiative Statement: "Israel's occupation of Palestinian land continues in part because it is so profitable for companies in Israel and around the world."

Do you notice the anti-Zionism slur? It reminded me of Hitler treatments toward the Jews by instructing the German populations to stop buying all Jewish products. Yes, the Jews were blamed for all the ill conditions of poverty in Germany and it is used again against Israel for the poor state of the Palestinians.

End The Occupation: "In 2006, member organizations voted to adopt an anti-apartheid framework in its educational and advocacy work. This framework stresses the similarities between Israeli policy toward Palestinians and the apartheid system in 20th century South Africa. In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, which declared apartheid a crime against humanity."

End The Occupation organization go to great afford to compare the situation between Israel and the Arab refugees as it was in South Africa for the purpose to call on the UN General Assembly to apply Crime of Apartheid against Israel. This is far more then boycotting Israel product.

Is Israel an Apartheid State?

Also watch: Black South African, Israel and Apartheid - https://youtu.be/AcEL-NlxBk0

Meretz U.S.A. "defines itself as a Zionist, Green, left-wing social democratic party. It emphasizes peace between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state solution as laid out in the Geneva Accord. The Geneva Accord would give Palestinians almost all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip drawing Israel's borders close to what existed prior to the Israeli annexation of territory at the culmination of the 1967 war."

Potential Consequences of a Palestinian State

To bring back the border prior to 1967 war would be suicidal to the security of the existence of the nation of Israel. It is clear that all Arab neighbours have publicly declared a complete annihilation of the state of Israel. Now why would the United Church want to be associated with an organization that is so radical by returning Israel to a none defendable border.

Canadians for Justice and Peace in The Middle East (CJPME) "is a pan-Canadian grassroots advocacy organization established under a different name in 2002 in order to "empower Canadians of all backgrounds to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East, and at home in Canada". Specifically, it seeks to achieve these goals through the creation of a Palestinian state, as well as by encouraging Canadian citizens to ensure that their government lives up to what the CJPME see as its legal and moral responsibilities in upholding human rights and humanitarian law both in Canada and internationally."

"CJPME was established in 2002 by Canadians who wanted to foster justice, peace, prosperity and security for all peoples of the Middle East. In 2005, over 170 organizations from Palestinian civil society appealed to the world to impose a strategy of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israeli institutions in an attempt to move the Israeli government to respect Palestinian rights. CJPME (CJPME’s Boycott Centre) has chosen to heed this call, and encourages its members and adherents to likewise take concrete steps to support this BDS campaign."

CJPME stated that they are concerned for the welfare for all peoples of the Middle East, yet their main focus is to point the finger toward Israel for all the instability and upheaval accruing all over the Arab nations. They focus only to a limited so-called injustice afflicted by Israel. Either the CJPME gobbles all the false propaganda broadcast by Hamas or they are anti-Zionism who only want to irradiate Israel right to exist.

Lately, an exhibit organized by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) supposedly depicting Gaza children’s art were draw by adult "depicting various scenes of alleged “Israeli brutality”. This was done to publicize lies. See the article title "Fake Gaza “Art” at Canadian Public Library". Not good for the CJPME reputation. Why would the United Church General Assembly want to be associated with an anti-Zionism organization?

The Coalition of Women for Peace: "is base in Israel and released a statement in September 2011, saying that a "mere declaration of statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is incapable of ending decades of occupation and racial discrimination based on legal mechanisms that match the UN definition of apartheid, to solve the refugee problem or to lead to civil equality between Jews and Palestinians citizens of Israel. These issues can only be resolved in a just agreement to end the occupation while maintaining the basic individual and collective rights of Palestinians, wherever they reside. CWP call for ending the occupation, maintaining the Palestinians right of return and the right to resist the occupation by all legitimate and popular forms of resistance acceptable by international norms.""

The CWP do not condemn the Palestinians to launch missiles in Israel populated area.

As you notice the CWP described the deputed territories as occupied territories comparing against the state of the Palestinians as bad as it was in South Africa black population. It takes little time to research the history of the conflict in the Middle East to recognize that Israel always wants peace but the Palestinians always wants Israel to be erased from the face on the map. 

Please watch this YouTube presentation title "Prager University: The Middle East Problem".

Why would the United Church General Assembly pursue the same ideology of these secular organizations with the objective to hold Israel responsible for the so-called poor state of the Palestinians refugees?  Why pour tar to the only democratic nation in the Middle East?  

Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum wrote an article denouncing North America church leader persecuting Israel instead of condemning Muslims persecution of Christians.  Here a quotation - Guest Column: Humanitarian Hypocrisy

"These are the same church leaders who utter nary a word concerning the rampant persecution of millions of Christians from one end of the Muslim world to the other—a persecution that makes the Palestinians' situation insignificant in comparison.

Nor is this limited to history: from Nigeria in the west to Pakistan in the east, Christians at this very moment are being imprisoned for apostasy and blasphemy; their churches are being bombed and burned down; their women and children are being kidnapped, enslaved, and raped.  For an idea, see my monthly MuslimPersecution of Christians series, where I collate dozens of anecdotes of persecution every month—any of which, if Palestinians experienced, would make headlines around the world; but as it is only “unfashionable” Christians who are experiencing these atrocities, they are regularly overlooked. 

Nor are Palestinian Christians immune from this phenomenon: a pastor recently noted that “animosity towards the Christian minority in areas controlled by the PA continues to get increasingly worse. People are always telling [Christians], Convert to Islam. Convert to Islam.”"

The Palestinians refugees are not the deed of Israel. The refugees are first and foremost Arabs and not Palestinians.  They are the result of the 1948 war conflict between surrounding Arab nations who refused the U.N. declaration of a new nation for Jews and Arab. The Arab nations forced all Jews out of their countries and demanded all Arabs working along side the Jews to get out. The Arab nations warred against Israel and were defeated. The new nation of Israel took care of all the Jews refugeed by integrating them into their society while the rich oil Arab nations refused to take care of their kind by forcing them to live in a poor state as refugees.  This was propagated to receive millions of dollars from the U.N. and the Western nations for the care of the refugees' plight. The Arab nations used this plight for their advantage, using it as propaganda to blame the ill state of the refugees on Israel. It worked. The money supplied by the U.N. and Western nations is mismanaged, use to smuggle weapons, keeping the refugees in poor state. By the way, do you know what Hamas motto is? It is "We love death as much as the Jews love life".

The now Arab refugees called Palestinians since the war of 1948 are used as the greatest propaganda machine to force Israel to surrender territories. Since when does a nation that chose to go to war and loose territories have the right to claim it back? What would have happen if we would have give back to Germany or Japan their loss territories? 

John Hinderaker article titled "Time to Annex Judea and Samaria?” he stated:

"When the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican War, what did we do? We annexed the Southwest. When France defeated Germany in World War I (more or less), what did it do? It annexed Alsace and Lorraine. After World War II, how did the Dutch obtain compensation from Germany? They annexed certain lands that were later sold back to West Germany for a large sum. Many such examples could be offered."

In 1967 it was an act of self-defence that caused Israel to take an offensive approach. When the enemy is ready to attack, is it not strategically logical to strike first? Would you take the first punch knowing that it could weaken you and destabilized you? Remember Pearl Harbour and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

"Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria and the establishment of the settlements cannot, and of itself, be considered to be illegal"

 - The Levy Report

The United Nations with Western nations took the burden for the welfare of the so call refugees and not the Arab nations rich in oil. Billions of dollars are given to the Palestinians government through the U.N, E.U., U.S.A., Canada, Israel, and many other nations. Little is used for it population. Here is a quotation from Birzeit University Working Paper[2]

“Why Palestinians despite they receive one of the highest levels of aid per capita in the world, and while international aid increased by seventeen-fold between 1993 and 2009, and the amounts received with the emergence of Fayyadism in the last few years exceed the total amount of aid received between 1994 and 2005, still cannot enjoy the aid dividends?" ? International aid disbursements to Palestinians totalled around US $20.4 billion between 1993 and 2011, averaging US$ 317 per capita annually. The total commitments totalled around US$19 billion. Aid inflows increased from an annual average of US $614 million between 1993 and 2003, to over US$1.7 billion since 2004. To illustrate the intensity of aid, in 2008/9 which was the peak of aid disbursement, only Liberia and TimorLeste had higher level of aid as percentage of GDP than Palestine, while its aid per capita ratio, put Palestine fifth after Mayotte, Palau, St.Kitts and St.Nevis and Marshall Islands. Aid as a percentage of GDP in the post-Arafat era ranged between 24% and 49%. The requested amounts of aid for the years 2011-13 are $4.8 billion according to the National Development Plan (Tartir 2011; DeVoir and Tartir 2009).”

The report goes on blaming Israel for the fail economic development:

“The critical literature also argued that ‘aid has been unable to foster sustainable development and that without addressing the fundamental barriers to development (Israeli blockades, military incursions and settlements); this will be difficult to achieve’ (UNCTAD 2009a,b, Turner 2009, 2011; Khalidi and Samour 2011; Barghouti 2012).

Blaming Israeli blockades, military incursions and settlements is pure propaganda. Israeli's blockades are to stop arms smuggling. Israel had all the right to stop the 'Freedom Flotilla' which aim was to break the International Law that supported the blockades.

“The commission headed by a retired Supreme Court justice, included four Israeli members and two international observers - David Trimble, a Nobel peace laureate from Northern Ireland, and Brig. Gen. Ken Watkin, Canada's former chief military prosecutor.  All signed off on the conclusions.  The commission defended the actions of the country's troops during last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla sailing from Turkey, finding in a report released that Israel had not violated international law.”

Most of the United Nations financial assistance is used to propagate propaganda and to support it war machine. The Palestinians are victims of their own government. They are in fact Hamas and the PLO hostages. Palestinians admit Gaza not starving, Hamassteals aid (4)

Honest Reporting Canada in National Post: "Boat to Gaza Reasoning Just Doesn’t HoldWater"

After reading Ehab Lotayeff of the Canadian Boat to Gaza’s case explaining why his organization set sail for Gaza, most fair-minded people will quickly conclude that these flotilla activists were only interested in confrontation, not aid, violence, not peace in an effort to generate international headlines for their anti-Israel agitprop.

Our rebuttal as published in the Post today, explains why the boat to Gaza's reasoning just doesn't hold water.

Read more and get informed >>

"People who are not in with Hamas don't see any of the relief goods or the gifts of money. Hamas supporters get prefabricated housing, furnishings and paid work. We get nothing."

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted in a speech at the UN General Assembly on September 27, 

“every year, thousands of Arabs from the Palestinian territories and Arabs from throughout the Middle East come to Israel to be treated in Israeli hospitals by Israeli doctors. It’s because Israel cherishes life… and seeks peace.”

Hamas - Human Shield Confession - Hamas MP FathiHammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields.

Watch this video of Palestinian Children Taught to Hate Jews http://youtu.be/etDb5tXPawc

Watch this video about the shocking similarities between Muslim and Nazi. Palestinians children are being trained for war. Hamas is stealing their youth.  Palestinians children are feed hateful propaganda and no one denounce it. See for yourself: Palestinians Children Of WAR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gzyeo1Z1I4&feature=youtu.be

Is it necessary to remind you of the stated objectives of Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad? Their goal is not peace, but the final destruction of the State of Israel. Not a single time have they acknowledged the sovereignty of Israel? If a Palestinian State is created within the 1967 border with sovereign power to deploy troops, import modern weapons even weapons-of-mass destruction and operate with full secrecy and diplomatic immunity; the ability of the State of Israel to defend itself will be fatally compromised.

The UN Security Council pass Resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, stipulated that Israel be entitled to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.

Israel always wants peace while the Arab nations always wanted to exterminate them. The Arab nations use hateful propaganda campaign against Israel at the cost of the Palestinians misfortune. For what purpose? To gain media attention and support! Canadian media are misleading us….do not be so gullible?  "Palestinians admit Gaza not starving,Hamas steals aid[4]."

So why would The United Church, the U.S. Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church and the British Methodist Church, all call for a boycott on Israel product. Why are they supporting criminal like-minded Hamas, which seeks only to totally erase Israel from the Middle East map? Are they so blind and gullible to the Palestinians propaganda, or are they anti-Semitic? I believe that some of their Church's leaders have anti-Jews sentiments. After all, it is not the first time that a religious denomination participated in the elimination of Jews. Pope Pius XII is one example of none to too little intervention during WW2 Holocaust of the Europeans Jews[5]. In Canada, many Jews were denied citizenship. Between 1933 and 1939, Canada accepted only some 4,000 of the 800,000 Jewish refugees who escaped from countries controlled by the Nazis[6].

Hostility towards or discrimination against Jews as a religious group or “race” is still active in Canada. Hostility to the Jews emerged mainly because of religious differences. Christians were taught that Jews killed Jesus. They do not truly understand that it was only the Jewish religious authorities that plotted to have Jesus executed by the Romans since the Jews had no authority to do so under the occupation.

So why is it that the little nation of Israel no bigger then Prince Edward Island a threat to international peace by The United Church, the U.S. Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church and the British Methodist Church? Is it because Israel is God’s people, set apart to prove to the world nations that He is God over all nations and He gave the land to whomever He chose, and in this case to His people Israel?

Israel Is The Key To Understand Bible Prophecy

Yes Israel, not the Church is the key to understand bible prophecy. The notion that the Church replaces Israel is hogwash. Replacement Theology is false theology [7].  

It is the root of ANTISEMITISM.  "Antisemitism is born in ignorance and nurtured in envy.  It is the stepchild of delusion and evil", The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Chapter 1 Antisemitism: An Enduring Reality[8]

In 1948, God fulfill a prophetic event by miraculously bringing back the children of Israel to His land. “For behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”  Jeremiah 30:3

This event was proof to Israel that God fulfill His promises. 

"Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.  They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’  Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.  Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves,”Ezekiel 37:11-13. 

Please notice that God named the land “His land”, the land that I gave to their fathers and Israel “My people Israel and Judah”.

Their land has been under foreign occupation for 2,553 years, from 586 B.C., when king Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem until 1948, then in 1967, the miraculous victory of the Jewish army capturing Jerusalem during the Six-Day-War, the times of the Gentiles ended, Luke 21:24. 

This was the prophetic sign that is to precede Christ’s return to set up His Kingdom for a thousand years upon the earth among His people Israel. Please watch on YouTubeJerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes: http://youtu.be/2mR2W43t6tI or listen to a Mp3 audio "Panorama Israel History" http://prewrathrapture.com/mp3/01_Panorama Israel History.mp3.

Yes, the survival of the Jewish people is a prophetic sign from God. The return of the Jewish people to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a wonder from God. The remarkable victories of Jewish armies against overwhelming odds in successive battles in 1948, and 1967, and 1973 are clearly phenomenon from God. The technological marvels of Israeli industry, the military prowess, the bounty of Israeli agriculture, the fruits and flowers and the abundance of the land are a testimony to God's watchful care over this new nation and the genius of this people. Watch "Israel Defying All Odds"on YouTube: http://youtu.be/GQ1nEDgN_04

Anyone that goes against Israel touches the apple of God’s eyes, and that is very irritating. “For thus says the LORD of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye”, Zechariah 2:8 and will be curse Genesis 12:3 .

There is a coming event that will prove to the whole world nations that God love Israel. 

“Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. 

You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”  Thus says the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

“And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face. For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’  I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord GOD. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.  

And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.  Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”’  Ezekiel 38:14-24, Ezekiel 39:7.

Please notice 'they' refer to all nations and all world religions which include The United Church General Council.

Russia, allied with the Muslim Arab nations, will war against Israel. This time it look like they may succeed in eliminating Israel?  It will be like a hopeless condition for Israel. Again, God will intervene as He did in the past.  This time no one will deny that it was God intervention.

God made a promise to Abraham that whoever bless him will be blessed and whoever curse him will be cursed, Genesis 12:3.  Look at the 130 countries that officially recognized Palestine as a state based on the 1967 borders, led by the rising global player such as Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela. All nations that condemn Israel and goes against Israel have huge economic problem. 

Under The Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper government, 

Canadians has been protected against the economic collapse.  Canada is Israel bestfriend. Canada is prospering: “I will bless those who bless you”, Genesis 12:3. 

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions 

There is now an interfaith movement. Its goal is to reunite all religions of the world. It is prophesied that they will succeed in becoming a one-world religion. Christian denominations that take part in interfaith movement are based on a false gospel. The false gospel is a counterfeit gospel, the name Jesus is used but not His deity, Matthew 24:5.   This movement consist of Christians, Jews, and Muslim. This movement goal is to establish Jerusalem as the religious capital of the world. They are the instruments of the anti-Christ. This is the organization that promote Replacement Theology, and mislead the world in the greatest propaganda endorsing Christian Palestinianism: Jesus was Palestinian.  

Nothing new for the sun god. Use of Local Cults to Establish Unity in Ancient Egypt.

 The effort to unify sun worship by creating a composite deity, alongside evidence of the development of local cults, evinces a movement towards both unity and plurality in the Egyptian Old Kingdom: one God (the ‘Great One’) and many gods (‘all the gods’). This should not be regarded as contradictory. To establish a unified politico-religious system the ruling power encouraged local religious identity and, by promoting a God-king whose commands had divine authority, limited the jurisdiction of the local priests and justified their own dominance. Unity was the purpose, plurality the method.

If you are a Christians and love Israel, ask your church where they stand. For or against Israel as is, in a secure border capable to defend it citizens?

Should Christians and Muslims seek to merge their religions into Chrislam? Find out with guest Eric Barger on the show Christ in Prophecy. Watch:  Christin Prophecy: Barger on Chrislam from Lamb & Lion Ministries

Is Being Pro-Palestinian Really Being Pro-Peace?

Listen Now!  Audio Presentation  Jan hosts as she and her team, Chris Heeb and Larry Kutzler, report on a recent "Hope for the Holy Land" pro-peace rally at Bethel University in St. Paul.  Does being pro-Palestinian really translate into being pro-peace? If one is “pro Palestine” in the sense of embracing the diabolical “land for peace” initiative, or even the “two-state solution,” one cannot in any real sense, be pro Israel. Was this a genuine pro-peace effort or just a deception to bring naive students into the anti-Israel fold? Participants included Lynn Hybels, Sami Awad, and a rep from World Vision, long known for their Replacement Theology position. No Jewish history was cited, no Scripture was quoted, and no pro-Israel position was allowed into the forum. The president of Bethel University closed with his pro-Palestinian position while seemingly denouncing the "traditional" pro-Israel position he grew up with. If this is the trend among younger evangelicals, the biblically-prophesied abandonment of Israel is hastening. Chris Heeb heads "Good News for Israel." Learn more at www.gnfi.org

On a personal note:

This commentary is not aim to belittle any members of the church' denomination. It is to warn you of the dangers from the direction your leaders who have chosen to go against God's people. I love God, Jesus for the wonderful gift of eternal life, by receiving God's present in me through the Holy Spirit as a down payment of the promise hesitance to come. I love Israel because God used this nation to prove His present in this world. The Church has being crafted to Israel. We are one with God for the same purpose of representing His Kingdom here on earth but at a different moment in time. A future event will shock the nations. It is call the "Rapture". When that happens, Israel will once again be the instrument of God to judge the whole world.

One day in the late 19th Century, Queen Victoria of England reportedly asked her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, this question..."Mr. Prime Minister, what evidence can you give me of the existence of God?" Disraeli thought for a moment and then replied, "The Jew, your majesty."

United Nations Calls For BOYCOTT Of US CompaniesFriendly To ISRAEL

“Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

” Psalm 129:5

For a more insightful understanding of the above topic I suggest that you read a book entitled " Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done, by Ron Graft and Lambert Dolphin, available Free in Internet version, http://ldolphin.org/kingdom.

News Article found on this subject:

United Church again grapples with proposed boycott of Israeli goods  By Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen August 3,2012  


CANADA HISTORIC: CANADA OVERWHELMINGLY PASSES MOTION CONDEMNING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ISRAEL - http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=17644  Prime Minister Stephen Harper who attended the session to cast his vote against BDS, joined the Liberals in overwhelmingly supporting the motion in a vote of 229 for and 51 against.

Faithful Witness

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[1]

This quote is only available in Newsstand format and is title “For Better or For Worse, A Boycott" by Mike Milne. This article is not made public in the http://www.ucobserver.org/ web site, it is different.

[2]

http://ialiis.birzeit.edu/userfiles/WPS-Alaa-Tartir-2012-4%5B2012022111321%5D.pdf

[3]

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/01/23/israeli-inquiry-flotilla-interception-was-legal.html

[4]

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21252

[5]

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html

[6]

http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=115

[7]

http://www.shema.com/Combating%20Replacement%20Theology/crt-005.php

[8]

http://www.utppublishing.com/Contemporary-Antisemitism-Canada-and-the-World.html

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Spirit of Cain

Is alive and doing well even within the churches

KEEPING GOD’S WORD DOES MATTER

“So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family,” 1 John 3:10. Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

The Lord asked Cain, “Why are you angry? Why does your face look sad?  You know that if you do what is right, I will accept you. But if you don’t, sin is ready to attack you. That sin will want to control you, but you must control it,” Genesis 4:6-7 ERV

Thy Will Or My Will Be Done?

So many believe in God, but so few believed in His words “If you love Me, keep My commandments,” John 14:15. His commandments are more than moral values. His words are His Kingdom’s policy.

What is the Spirit of Cain?  It is ‘not taking Jesus by His word’. In James 1:22, we read; “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”.  In the ERV it is read in this manner, “Do what God’s teaching says; don’t just listen and do nothing. When you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves.”

I listen to gospel songs, and modern Christian songs with lyrics testifying and affirming commitment such as “give it all to Jesus, casting all our care to Jesus, surrendering to Jesus, and I will follow Jesus”.  Social networks display all kinds of images and videos that bear witness to the same.  Is it a commitment founded on emotion?  I do understand.  I’ve been emotional.  Nevertheless, why do so many not study His word? If they do, why not apply it.  Why? Is it because most of us think it is irrelevant to today’s modern life.

As a commentator, I find it easy to imagine how to apply God’s word on paper. To apply God’s word, in reality, is challenging.  On paper I would reflect on past experiences, the success and the failures. But then again to walk in faith is always in the present tense pondering on the future outcome.  

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”.  As Christians we are admonished to live by faith, Romans 1:17 and living by faith is to apply His teaching. Why? Because God knows what is good for us. He is preparing us to reign with Him. In the Book of Proverb chapter 8 is all about receiving instruction from “Wisdom”. “Wisdom” is Jesus before He was made flesh, John 1:1-3. Jesus admonishes us to pay attention to His teaching and to apply it. Do you want to please God? Trust and obey His Son Jesus' teaching and apply it.

Cain failed to please God by not applying the instruction on how to give an offering.  Cain used fruits of the earth.  The proper offering was an animal; a lamb was required as a proper offering.  That is all it would have taken for Cain to please God, Genesis 4:7.  In my previous commentary titled “More About Faith”, I point out the reason why faith is difficult to live by. 

It is due to the wrong principles, and instructions we apply.  As Cain applied the wrong principle, we Christians also fail to apply God’s instruction.  So many Christians fail to realize that they apply secular principles as God’s words yet they are not. James 1:22 is very clear, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”.  We are deceiving ourselves by believing that God doesn’t really care what principle we live by ‘since God is all love’.  This is the most misused justification that I hear within the Christian community, ‘God is all love, what difference those it makes’.  What most Christians do not realize is by not taking God’s instruction we adopt a Cain-like mind, a spirit of Cain.  View in this YouTube presentation “Stay Free (Part 9 - Put Faith in God, Not Man)” the effect in our society when Christians do not apply Jesus teaching.

Cain's offers displeased God. Cain was told what to do, however, he did it differently. In Cain’s mind, an offering was an offering.  He questioned God’s attitude for refusing his offering and not his own attitude for refusing to offer what God instructed.   Some Christians are no different by bringing God to their own level by making this statement, “It doesn’t matter with God, He is loving and merciful?  If someone gave me a gift even if it wasn't what I expected, I surely would show some appreciation, and so would God!”

We pick and choose instructions and the teaching of Jesus.  Let's be honest with ourselves. We apply only what suits us. I can prove it with an example. It is found in one distinct area within the Body of Christ which causes division. 

In my town with a population of less than 3000, there are five churches, all with low attendees. Jesus gave this instruction: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another,” John 13:34-35.  This commandment seems to have been changed to “Tolerate one another”.  The sad part is that by not witnessing God’s love between Christians we are accused of being hypocrites and with good reason. That is the consequence of not applying this instruction given by Jesus. Read my commentary title “Christianity is like the menu of an Ice Cream Parlour” .

The secular society in general does not take God by His word.  There is a diversity of religious beliefs, breaking His first commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me,” Deuteronomy 5:7.  The secular would then question which god is the true god.  

The second commandment explains that the true God is invisible and is the One that created all things as described in Genesis 1.  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them,” Deut 5:8-9.  That is anything above heaven which includes human figures. Deuteronomy 4:16, and creatures in the spiritual world such as angels and demons disguise as divine.  Why does God command us not to carve images of any kind either made out of wood or gold for the purpose to give worshiping them?  That is because they are mute and have no life in them, Habakkuk 2:18-19 and demons love to be worshipped through idols.

Oh yes, the secular society does have the spirit of Cain and continues to do so even more now with the increased novelty in technology. Science and technology are considered by many the answers to all our woes, replacing the wisdom of God’s instruction.  Even as I write this article, scientists around the world rejoice in the new discovery of a new sub-atomic particle nick name god’s particle that in their opinion could prove the origin of the universe.  So much money is being spent to prove that God doesn’t exist, Romans 1:18-23.  Genesis 1:2 clearly instructs us that the first atomic particle was H²O (water). Please read my commentary title "Mystery In the TheTrinity Revealed In A Molecule Of Water (H²O)"

 The world was made to believe that God doesn’t exist by replacing His act of creation by an imaginary theory of evolution, making, therefore, God’s words irrelevant. The theory of evolution is, in my opinion, the greatest deception since the beginning of time, 2 Thessalonians 2:11. Anyone who teaches and professes the theory of evolution is subject to God’s wrath, Romans 1:18-31. Now you know where the inclination to choose a homosexual lifestyle originates. It started by denying God as the creator.

The churches in western society have adopted a Cain-like mind to a point that you cannot distinguish the difference between some Christians and seculars.   Ecclesiastes witnessed it: “There is one other thing I have learned. God made people good, but they have found many ways to be bad,” Ecclesiastes 7:29.

Please watch this YouTube video titled “Stay Free (Part 12 - Revival or Riots)”. Here is an excerpt: “The Greek word for Church is ‘Ecclesia’. It literally means ‘Call out ones’. Call out of the way of the world, to be separated from the world in thought, speech, and behaviour.  It is our job to bring others out also.  We are meant to be different, extremely different and more different than we are comfortable being.”

Christians are to be a light in the word and salt, Matthew 5:13, Colossians 4:6, Matthew 5:14. We can only be a light and salt by applying Jesus' teaching.  “Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven,” Matthew 5:16. 

‘Your good works’ are Jesus' teaching applied and by doing so we are witnessing to the society consequently we give glory to God the Father.  Good works are not good deeds.  We are not commanded to do good works to keep our salvation instead, we are to represent God’s kingdom here on earth.  God’s kingdom is His government policies in heaven. This is one big misconception in our society and within some Christian denomination that believes that God’s kingdom is a religion.  It is not. It is a government.  His government will be established in the near future advent. The capital will be Jerusalem and Jesus as King and ruler over all nations.

“The Church has been a force for behaviour that pleases God throughout its history”, stated Jack Kelly at gracethrufaith.com. He comments “that it’s people in the Church who continue to lead the fight against abortion, sexual slavery, same sex marriage, and other behaviours that clearly violate God’s standards for human conduct.  And its people in the church who fight for Bible-based education, abstinence among children, and other “traditional values.” As He explains, the church does play an important role in our society, yet, are we doing so in obedience to His instruction of conduct and policies given to Christians within the assembly of the saints? After all, Jesus declared, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;” Matthew 7:21-23.

Watch and see what secular think of Christians...He does have a point.

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All Christians are responsible to be a light in the world to give a taste of God’s kingdom here on earth. There is a benefit in following Jesus' instructions.  In return, we receive many blessings.  Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of God’s representatives doing good works. Christians are identified by being at church on Sunday or Saturday. For the rest of the week, it is difficult to distinguish between a Christian and a secular, since both reflect a Cain-like mindset, choosing and picking what is good for ‘me’ rather than following Jesus' instructions.

Christians are not going around with signed writing “How do you like my Christianity? Tell me by calling 777-777-7777.” Some trucking companies want feedback from the general public about their drivers driving, so they put up a sign on the back door of each truck with a phone number asking the public to call to let them know.

 In the parable of the vine and the branches, we observe what God does to what He considers dead work. Dead works are considered to be anything which is not according to the teaching of Jesus. Dead works are thrown into the fire and destroyed. This parable has nothing to do with salvation, it is about following His teaching by applying it and rewards for doing so.

Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit. He also trims every branch that produces fruit to prepare it to produce even more.  You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given you.  Stay joined to me and I will stay joined to you. No branch can produce fruit alone. It must stay connected to the vine. It is the same with you. You cannot produce fruit alone. You must stay joined to me.

 “I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I to you, you will produce plenty of fruit. But separated from me you won’t be able to do anything.  If you don’t stay joined to me, you will be like a branch that has been thrown out and has dried up. All the dead branches like that are gathered up, thrown into the fire and burned.  Stay joined together with me, and follows my teachings. If you do this, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be given to you.  Show that you are my followers by producing much fruit. This will bring honor to my Father,” John 15:1-8 ERV. 

Interesting isn’t it? Especially in verse 7, Jesus promised blessing: “Stay joined together with me, and follow my teachings. If you do this, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be given to you.” This parable has nothing to do with keeping our salvation.  Salvation is given by believing.  This parable is all about receiving rewards and rewards come in form of answered prayer for applying Jesus' teaching.  Following Jesus' teaching is what pleases Him, and God the Father.

Do you get the point? Why are prayers not answered? One of the reasons that they are not answered is because of noncompliance with His teaching. Therefore take Jesus by His word. Follow His instruction, and His teaching passed on to His disciple: “Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word,” John 17:20.

Christians have proven that they do not apply Jesus' instruction by not loving one another John 13:34-35, by being divided and establishing their own congregation and building. To the general public, we are therefore viewed as being hypocrites and not giving honour to God. “Show that you are my followers by producing much fruit. This will bring honour to my Father,” John 15:8 ERV.  We can deny it or if we agree we do nothing about it.

“My dear friends, if we don’t feel that we are doing wrong, we can be without fear when we come to God.  And God gives us what we ask for. We receive it because we obey God’s commands and do what pleases him. This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love each other as he commanded.  All who obey God’s commands live in God. And God lives in them. How do we know that God lives in us? We know because of the Spirit he gave us,” 1 John 3:21-24 ERV.  Please read my commentary title, “The New Covenant commandments are sum up in three aspects; Believe, trust, and love”.

In countries where Christianity is forbidden, Christians meet secretly.  They are persecuted, coerced to pay high taxes, imposed higher tribute, gangs kidnap children of Christian and do not release them until the family pays a ransom, and risk being put in prison, tortured, and execute.   

To Christians who live in a country where they have freedom of religion, one scripture comes to mind: “Receive one who is weak in the faith but not to disputes over doubtful things,” Romans 14:1. These Christians who live in a country forbidding freedom of religion put us to shame.  Watch this YouTube video:  “I Have Decided To Follow Jesus”. Christians in western society who enjoy the freedom to worship do not follow the Apostle Paul's instruction, “But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.”  What a contrast! Persecuted Christians spend no time quarrelling, but rather worship in secret the Lord in one accord.

There is now an interfaith movement.  Its goal is to reunite all religions of the world. It is prophesied that they will succeed in becoming a one-world religion. Christian denominations that take part in the interfaith movements are based on a false gospel. The false gospel is a counterfeit gospel, the name Jesus is used but not His deity, Matthew 24:5.   

The true Body of Christ “The Church” is diminishing its influence in western society.  The majority of Christians seem to live a secular lifestyle and many live a defeated life, faith not applied, full of discouragement, why? Here is a quotation I made in my commentary title “More About Faith”: “This is why some Christians fall into a rut. They keep applying the same principle taught over and over again without showing any improvement in their Christian lives, living a defeated life as if it was intended to be, according to God’s will.” 

What wrong principles are we applying, or should I say what Jesus teaching are we not applying? The Church is weak because of our mindset, Cain’s mindset.  We pick and choose the instructions and teaching of Jesus.  We either do not challenge what we are taught or we are bench warmers and do not bother to apply the good teaching of pastors and ministers.  Please read this commentary written by Joseph Chambers titled "Pre-Rapture Commentary: Living In The Danger Zone"
 

This commentary is not about questioning your salvation, it is about questioning your light, doing good works hence receiving God's blessing.  After all, the Son of God, Jesus, became human not only to die, the most important event for the salvation of every living soul but to give us instruction, to teach us about His kingdom policies. All governments and companies have specific policies that employees are to implement. Why should it be so different within the Body of Christ? We are to be representing His kingdom in heaven? In the Lord's Prayer do we not pray, thy kingdom comes thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven? This is made possible through us.  We are His light in this world, however, a lamp shade is covering it, the lamp shade is ‘the spirit of Cain’.

The church in Philadelphia is depicted to be the evangelical church of the nineteen and twentieth-century churches. It is also designated as the faithful church’ “I know your works. (Jesus said) See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.,” Revelation 3:8.

“Have kept my word”, do you now understand the importance of applying Jesus' teaching?  IT DOES MATTER.  To say that God is “all loving” without obeying Him is revealing a spirit of Cain. In my opinion, the spirit of Cain is represented by The ‘Lukewarm Church’ the church of the Laodicea, in picking and choosing between the teachings of Jesus and the secular values and belief. Many are the ones who quote 2 Timothy 4:7, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith," not really realizing that to keep the faith, Christians are to take Jesus by His word. Jesus is there to help us apply His word. We have received the present of the Holy Spirit to help us understand His word. You are not alone. Jesus will never forsake you.  Watch this video “Stay Free (Part 13 - Christian Certainty)”

I don’t want to leave you confused.  After reading this commentary some may doubt your salvation “Am I saved?”  And I am not talking about keeping the Ten Commandments. In  Gal 3:16-28 describes the purpose of the Law of Moses.  We are saved by faith, in believing in the One God had sent which is Jesus.

Our life in Christ is beyond the Mosaic Law, although continuous repentance is our way of life; please read my commentary title “Repentance is a Must”.  Our new life with Jesus must reflect new instructions given to us through His Apostle that is found in the Book of Acts and the Epistles.  These instructions are a reflection, an image and an uninterruptable link of the Old Testament directives.   They are THE KINGDOM OF GOD POLICIES.

If you are a reader who has not been saved yet, please answer these few questions:

Do you believe you are a sinner?  Do you believe you are hopelessly lost without a saviour?  Do you believe God sent His Son to die for your sins? Do you accept His death as payment in full for your sins?  If you answer yes to these questions…tell it to Jesus… ask for His forgiveness and God will send His Holy Spirit… a seal for eternity.  You are now the son of God.  Son of God is a title given to all man and woman believers.  

Additional Commentaries

• WAKE UP AMERICA---UE'S NOT CHRISTIAN
• THE WAY Of CAIN

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