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6th January 2021, hej

 

There are so many dramatic things occurring that we find events hard to keep up with.


6 January 2020 Qatar, Saudis and Israel

Trump pulls off another miracle in the Middle East

President Trump appears to have been instrumental in pulling off yet another miracle in the Middle East with the announcement that Saudi Arabia would be reopening its airspace and land and sea border with Qatar.

The announcement—which comes on the eve of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit on 5 January—is the catalyst that will see the resolution of a political dispute that led Saudi Arabia and its allies – Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Egypt—to impose a diplomatic, trade and travel boycott on Qatar in June 2017.

Qatar was then accused of having ties with Iran that were deemed too close.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will attend the GCC summit – having received a formal invitation from Saudi King Salman to the six-nation summit.

The Saudi News Agency has reported Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stating:

that the upcoming GCC summit shall be a summit to close the ranks and unify the stance and to enhance the march of the good and prosperity, adding that we will translate through the summit,”

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner had visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar last November in an attempt to secure such a reconciliation agreement.

One week earlier—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to have secretly met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia denied the meeting took place—but Israel didn’t.

Mr. Netanyahu’s meeting with Mohammed bin Salman – reportedly in the seaside corner of northwest Saudi Arabia—coincided with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit. Yossi Cohen—the director of Israel’s spy agency Mossad—reportedly accompanied Netanyahu.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud had hinted a rapprochement with Qatar was very near when he told the MED 2020 Rome forum on 4 December 2020:

We’ve made significant progress in the last few days, thanks to the continuing efforts of Kuwait but also thanks to strong support from President Trump and US administration towards bringing all parties closer” https://www.israpundit.org/trump-pulls-off-another-miracle-in-the-middle-east/

While the EU and the world are distracted, Trump's team used super leverage of 'end of term' (when it might not be) to realign the Middle East. It was written that the Arabs would be with the Jews when Russia invades - before it was strange and I used to think it would be because of the Arabs relationship with the UK, but now we can see why they are first listed in Ezekiel 38 as standing with Israel!

Sheba and Dedan are Arabs from Abraham. "Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee (the Far Northern Invader Rosh in context), Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(Ezekiel 38:13)


6 January 2021 Britain as Trade Harlot after 70 years

That's why we left EU! UK set for trade explosion as Australia eyes up mega-deal

BORIS Johnson has been tipped to seal a bumper post-Brexit trade deal with Australia this year in a move which would have huge benefits for both parties.

Tyre means "rock" It was destroyed by Alexander the Great. It's traders 'walked' on to Venice etc then to Tarshish after this prophecy was written:

"Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle (Tyre). Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. (Isa 23:6-7)
"Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten 70 years, according to the days of one king: after the end of 70 years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. (Isa 23:14-15)


4 January 2021 God with us is a Cleaver

Much has been written on the Hebrew meaning of Amen and the rogue prayer to open US Congress;

'It's got nothing to do with gender': Democrat Emanuel Cleaver is slammed for ending his 'woke' Congress prayer by saying 'Amen and awoman'..

'We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and "god" known by many names by many different faiths.'

'Amen and awoman.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9110665/Democrat-congressman-ends-prayer-saying-Amen-woman-bid-gender-neutral.html

Amen is from the Hebrew and means 'truly' or 'certainly'. That Emanuel Cleaver is a Minister of the United Methodists, indicates the depths that knowledge has sunk to, as it cannot be interpreted in context in any other way than a way to revise 'Amen', because joking is clearly mocking the whole prayer as only a fool would do.

We will strike out a new line of thought for the Bible student- let us consider the name Emanuel Cleaver. The prayer itself divides or cleaves people into two groups. A man named 'God with us the Cleaver' opens a new session of Congress. Will it produce the unity they desire? God with us is a cleaver who divides, scatters and confuses! We will see division and confusion.

The second point we will make is that a prayer in the name of any and all gods admits to no god. Let me explain: none, but none can think that the monthesitic God is served in the same way or is the same being as gods by many names. The text of the God of the Bible rejects prayer to any other saying, “thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Deut 5:7)! Not only will the God of the Bible not listen to polytheistic prayer, he will be annoyed by it (Judges 2:12, 10:13, 2 Kings22:17, Jer 7:18))

More than that, is it in fact worth admitting a pantheon? Is there any compliment to those other gods if their rites are not observed, rather that their name is tacked onto a prayer rite for Christian God of the Bible? Why not have a separate rite to each and every god there to begin?

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. (Jeremiah 2:11)


3 January 2021 Tel Aviv Volcanic Activity

Though not confirmed yet as a volcano the heat of the earth is escaping.

A mystery,” said Tel Aviv City Council member Zippy Brand. “The earth is boiling beneath the city,” she posted on her Facebook page, adding that “for three days now, a smoking cistern has been raising steam at a temperature of 60 degrees”..

There are several geothermal hot springs in Israel where underground water is heated in the earth and rises to the surface. The closest hot springs are some 10 kilometers (six miles) to the north at Kibbutz Ga’ash, whose name can also mean “volcano” in English. https://worldisraelnews.com/tel-aviv-baffled-by-mysterious-hot-steam-emerging-from-ground/

The geography of the holy land is to be changed when God goes out to fight as he did in the past, when Messiah comes.

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. (Micah 1:3-4)
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. (Micah 4:1)


December 2020 The Big Earthquake

A scientific study is released showing there is soon to be a big earthquake in Israel.


A destructive earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale is expected to hit Israel and its surrounding neighbors in the coming years, a new study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University has found.

According to the study published in the Science Advances journal, which reviewed about 220,000 years of Dead-Sea geology by drilling and studying the seabed, the researchers showed that a pattern can be seen since such devastating earthquakes seem to be hitting the region every 130 to 150 years.

According to the study published in the Science Advances journal, which reviewed about 220,000 years of Dead-Sea geology by drilling and studying the seabed, the researchers showed that a pattern can be seen since such devastating earthquakes seem to be hitting the region every 130 to 150 years. The last earthquake with such magnitude, which hit the Dead Sea region in 1927,

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-to-be-hit-by-a-destructive-earthquake-soon-study-shows-653454

6.5 isn't that big. The earthquake described in Zechariah 14 is going to be much bigger, and it is located right on the very long Africa Syria Fault line.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Zechariah 14:2-5)

For more see The great earthquake


27 December 2020 the UAE agrees with Israel

In a change that will see real results - as money is indeed everything – the organisation that perpetuated hatred between Jews and Arabs on the mountains of Israel is soon to be starved out of existence.

Emirati officials are considering an action plan intended to gradually eliminate UNRWA, without making this development conditional on a resolution of the refugee problem...Former UNRWA general counsel James Lindsay called on nations that fund UNRWA to push for these “rational changes” to the definition of a refugee, or push to dissolve the organization over the next five years…

Between 2018 and 2019, the UAE, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, provided much funding to UNRWA to compensate for the funding cuts by the Trump administration. However, Le Monde noted that this year, the UAE has done almost nothing for the organization, which claims it is on the threshold of bankruptcy...Abu Dhabi will adopt Israel’s position that UNRWA obstructs peace by sponsoring a population whose goal is to flood into lands now controlled by Israel…

The Dubai-based Saudi journalist Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed told Le Monde: “Palestinians have the right to establish a state, but their cause is no longer a priority. Normalization agreements were supposed to be signed twenty years ago. The Gulf states have more in common with Israel than many Arab countries.” https://worldisraelnews.com/uae-weighs-joining-bid-to-shut-down-unrwa-report/ also see https://www.israpundit.org/report-israel-uae-to-join-forces-to-terminate-unrwas-mandate/

The time of Russia's invasion of Israel, with Iran (Persia) in tow, Jews are for the first time, remarkably, dwelling in safety on the Mountains of Israel.

After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. (Eze 38:8)


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