Israeli Soldiers dancing get 15 minutes of fame

Israeli Soldiers Dance to Ke$ha in Hebron 

A video of Israeli soldiers dancing to the song Ke$ha's "Tik Tok"was posted on YouTube over the weekend, It was removed but resurfaced and has hit the media in Israel. It shows six soldiers breaking into a choreographed dance routine while on patrol in Hebron. Originally posted under the title "Battalion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah," the re-posted video is titled "It's easy to laugh at the occupation when you're the oppressor (and a douchebag)."

The video is part of a growing trend where soldiers produce cover versions of pop songs and post them to the internet, as American soldiers did to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Telephone." However, as Haaretz points out, usually these videos are produced on base instead of while the soldiers are on patrol.

Reactions to the Israeli video have ranged from amusement to "disdain for the sight of soldiers dancing in an occupied Palestinian street." One Jezebel commenter remarked that the film was apparently shot during the Muslim call to prayer and hence was doubly inappropriate. According to Haaretz, the soldiers involved will likely be punished for improper conduct, though The Huffington Post claims commanders have "shrugged off" the incident as a "stunt.

But seemingly they have escaped being penalised by their commanders. Larry King was the first to announce the dance breakout to Prime Minister Netanyahu in his interview with him.  The Prime Minister's response was, "let me get a report on it then I'll let you know my response."

Initial reports said the six were facing disciplinary action, but the army later said the soldiers were just fooling around and no harm was done.

The YouTube user who originally posted the clip identified it as "Battalion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah", the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

It shows the six - armed with assault rifles and kitted out in bulletproof vests - doing a combination of the Macarena and the chicken dance to the catchy dance track, before twirling in pairs and skipping out of camera shot while holding hands.

After it was taken down, it was re-posted by a user who added the title: "It's easy to laugh at the occupation when you're the oppressor (and a douchebag)."

Hebron is home to about 160,000 Muslims, but some 500 Israeli settlers live in the centre of the city with a heavy Israeli security detail.

On Monday, Israeli TV stations picked up the clip and aired it repeatedly.

The military called the video a "stunt". They were dancing but someone who had posted it on Utube added the music to it.


They are just soldiers doing nothing more than many of our own soldier do but the negative world always has something to say about every move of everyone. If we put an article in the newspaper criticizing our youth for the things they do while church worship was going on, the newspapers would be double their size.

Methodist Church to boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements

The Methodist Church
30 June 2010

The Methodist Church has today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and to encourage Methodists to do the same. The Methodist Church of Britain voted on Wednesday to boycott Israeli-produced goods and services from the West Bank because of Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.”

Christine Elliott, Secretary for External Relationships, said, “This decision has not been taken lightly, but after months of research, careful consideration and finally, today’s debate at the Conference. The goal of the boycott is to put an end to the existing injustice by Israel."

“We are passionate about dialogue across communities and with people of all faiths. We remain deeply committed to our relationships with our brothers and sisters of other faiths, and we look to engage in active listening so that we act as agents of hope together.”

The Conference also adopted a statement calling for a full arms embargo against all sides in the conflict. “This conflict is further fuelled by partisan support by other countries. Violence from all parties in this conflict must be denounced, and a just peace sought for all peoples living in the region,” said Christine.

The motion stated that the boycott of goods “from illegal Israeli settlements” was in response to a call by the World Council of Churches – which advocates divestment from Israel – and by Palestinian civil society and “a growing number of Jewish organizations in Israel and worldwide.”

“The Methodist Conference notes the call of the World Council of Churches in 2009 for an international boycott of settlement produce and services and the support given for such a boycott by Christian leaders in Palestine in the Kairos document, Palestinian civil society and a growing number of Jewish organizations both inside Israel and worldwide and calls on the Methodist people to support and engage with this boycott of Israeli goods emanating from illegal settlements,” the church said.

Last year, the Methodist Church set up a working group to “work for an end to the Occupation, an end to the blockade of Gaza, adherence to international law by all sides and a just peace for all in the region.”

The resulting 54-page report produced by the church body, titled “Justice for Palestine and Israel,” met with a fierce condemnation by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Council of Christians and Jews and British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:  Methodist Church Conference Report: 'Justice for Palestine and Israel' 

In a statement released after Wednesday’s vote, the church body said the decision, which carried unanimously, had the goal of ending “the existing injustice.”

“This decision has not been taken lightly, but after months of research, careful consideration and finally, today’s debate at the conference,” said Christine Elliott, secretary for external relationships. “The goal of the boycott is to put an end to the existing injustice. It reflects the challenge that settlements present to a lasting peace in the region.”

Jewish community leadership organizations reacted with dismay. In a joint statement, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council said it was, “This is a very sad day, both for Jewish-Methodist relations and for everyone who wants to see positive engagement with the complex issues of Israeli-Palestinian relations. The Methodist Conference has swallowed hook, line and sinker a report full of basic historical inaccuracies, deliberate misrepresentations and distortions of Jewish theology and Israeli policy.

“The deeply flawed report is symptomatic of a biased process: The working group which wrote the report had already formed its conclusions at the outset. External readers were brought in to give the process a veneer of impartiality, but their criticisms were rejected. The report’s authors have abused the trust of ordinary members of the Methodist Church, who assumed that they were reading and voting on an impartial and comprehensive paper, and they have abused the goodwill of the Jewish community, which tried to engage with this issue, only to find that our efforts were treated as an unwelcome distraction,” the statement said.

David Gifford, the chief executive of the Council of Christians and Jews, said he was disappointed that the Israeli narrative was not heard during the debate.

“I was very disappointed at the emotive nature of the debate which again did not hear fairly also the pain and cry of the Israeli,” Gifford said. “It was right to hear the pain of the Palestinian but in the end the vote of the Methodist Conference was to boycott goods and services that originate from the West Bank. We shall have to see how this will affect future relationships of the Methodist Church with other churches, the CCJ [Council of Christians and Jews] and with the British Jewish community.”

The Board of Deputies said the conference should “hang its head in shame.”

“This outcome is extremely serious and damaging, as we and others have explained repeatedly over recent weeks. Israel is at the root of the identity of Jews and of Judaism, and as an expression of Jewish spiritual, national and emotional aspirations. Zionism cannot simply be ruled as illegitimate in the way that the conference has purported to do. This smacks of breathtaking insensitivity, as crass as it is misinformed. That this position should now form the basis of Methodist Church policy should cause the conference to hang its head in shame, just as surely as it will cause the enemies of peace and reconciliation to cheer from the sidelines.”

Anti-Zionist and anti-Israel activists who support a blanket boycott of Israel were the main sources of the document. They included Israeli-born academics Ilan Pappe and Avi Shlaim; Jeff Halper from the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions; Anglican vicar Stephen Sizer; and Beirut-based journalist Robert Fisk.

Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180043
Jerusalem Post: Jonny Paul

Jewish Chronicle reports:
Delegates at the Methodist conference overwhelmingly passed every recommendation of the report, which also included a call to review whether Zionism was compatible with Methodist beliefs.

The Reverend Graham Carter, who chaired the working party that produced the report, said that while some people had wanted a boycott of all Israeli goods, “we did not feel that was the right thing to bring to conference”.

Lord Sacks said the implications of the decision would “reverberate across the hitherto harmonious relationship between the faith communities in the UK”.

He blasted the report as “unbalanced, factually and historically flawed” and offering “no genuine understanding of one of the most complex conflicts in the world today. Many in both communities will be deeply disturbed”.

Delegates at the conference in Portsmouth overwhelmingly passed every recommendation of the report, which also included a call to review whether Zionism was compatible with Methodist beliefs.

The Reverend Graham Carter, who chaired the working party that produced the report, said that while some people had wanted a boycott of all Israeli goods, “we did not feel that was the right thing to bring to conference”.

Jewish organisations are particularly incensed that the Methodists disregarded advance warnings from the Council of Christians and Jews and other groups of the likely impact of the report on relations between Jews and Methodists.

In a blistering joint statement, the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said the report’s authors had “abused the goodwill of the Jewish community, which tried to engage on this issue, only to find our efforts were treated as an unwelcome distraction”.

The conference “swallowed hook, line and sinker a report full of basic historical inaccuracies, deliberate misrepresentations and distortions of Jewish theology and Israeli policy,” they said.

Calling the outcome “a very sad day” for Methodist-Jewish relations”, they said it would “cause the enemies of peace and reconciliation to cheer from the sidelines”.

An internal church memo shows that the Methodist Church had rejected calls for a more “balanced” working party, whose members included Stephen Leah, the chairman of the York branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

David King, a delegate from Lancashire and one of a number of speakers at the debate who raised Jewish concerns, noted “a rise in antisemitic activity in the UK”.

He said: “I’m concerned that in our acts as a church we are incredibly mindful of the wellbeing of the Jewish community in the UK.”

But Mr Carter told the conference: “I want to state quite clearly that there is no hint of antisemitism in what we have said or what we intend... If we are concerned about antisemitism, why don’t we talk about the anti-Islam approach? We might be between a rock and a hard place.” Expressing his hope for continued dialogue with the Jewish community, he said: “I want us to continue to hold out the hand of friendship — and I hope it won’t be refused.”

While the 54-page document mentions that Israelis had legitimate fears, it contains no more than a fleeting reference to Hamas.

Jonathan Arkush, senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies, who witnessed the debate in Portsmouth, said afterwards: “It is hard to see how anyone genuinely concerned with the Middle East and interfaith dialogue can take the Methodist Church seriously.”

The Methodist action reflects a tactic urged last year by Palestinian churches, which denounced Israel’s occupation as “a sin."

Wilson Opinion:
If a church conference asked you to go jump off a cliff would you do it before seeking God's word for yourself on it? The Christian Church must not accept the dehumanizing, and the right to defense and survival of the Jewish people. This act by the Methodist Church is exactly the way anti-semitism was spread in Europe by Christians. Since when did the Palestinian Christians rewrite our church doctrine?  If the Methodist Church doctrine no longer fits into Zionism and the support of the Jewish people, then they must not be reading the same bible most of us Christians do. This is inflammatory by the Methodist church and abuse of the Christians they are the Shepherd of. If you don't read the word of God concerning Israel then you will fall for the Anti-Christ's lies! This is a deception of the Methodist Church in the first degree and goes against all Christian teaching. They had made their minds before they assembled, otherwise they would have gotten all sides first. For this act, cursed are they who hurt Israel.  I didn't say that, God did! Read it!

Taking back America, with intro to Wilson Tea Party

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT is the most dynamic and powerful grassroots political movement witnessed by modern-day America. It arose spontaneously – and in the nick of time – to save this country from an advancing, fatal drift away from self-government, liberty and the promise of greater prosperity for future generations.

BUT WHAT DOES THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT REALLY STAND FOR? AND WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE? JOSEPH FARAH – founder, editor and prolific writer was a tea partier before there was even a tea party movement. In his new book, "The Tea Party Manifesto," Farah fleshes out the origins and evolution of the movement that intensifies daily in speed and spirit.

Defining the terms of the debate, the true meaning of independence, the danger in waiting for political messiahs, and the vital need for a spiritual core, Farah provides an inspired road map for this country's citizens to extricate themselves from the overreaching grip of government and reclaim the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

Something is happening in the United States – something unprecedented in the last 150 years. Now more than ever is the time for a complete renewal of liberty, justice, and morality. It's time for a vision as bold as the one that launched this country. Only one question remains: What part will you play in taking America back?

The director of the Wilson Tea Party chapter is Rev. Joel M. Killion.  He quotes today:

Why stand we here idle [Matt. 20:6]? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (From Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" speech)

Upcoming events of the Wilson chapter:

 JULY 4TH CELEBRATION AT FLEMING STADIUM

  contact for more information: 

http://www.WilsonNCTeaParty.com

http://www.wilsonncteaparty.com/events/july-4th-celebration

Time: July 4, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm
Location: Fleming Stadium Wilson NC
Street: Stadium Dr. which runs parallel to Ward Blvd at Wilson Mall
City/Town: Wilson NC
Website or Map: http://wilsonncteaparty.com
Phone: 252-289-6001
Event Type: celebration, ball, game, outreach
Organized By: Americans for Prosperity

Time: Septe * * * WILSON NC TEA PARTY FAMILY PICNIC @ TOISNOT PARK

mber 12, 2010 from 4pm to 7pm
Location: Toisnot Park Wilson NC
Street: Corbett Ave.
City/Town: Wilson
Website or Map: http://www.wilsonncteaparty.c…
Phone: 252-289-6001
Event Type: family, picnic
Organized By: Bobby Pittman of Rocky Mt.

After a great trip to Washington DC with Restoring America, we've got to share our experiences with everyone. This will be a fun afternoon for kids of all ages and you can even bring your friends. Please bring a side with a beverage. The Tea Party will take care of the Hamburgers and Hotdogs. If you don't know how to share your activist spirit then you've got to be here! It's OK to bring your pet if you don't have a sitter. Make sure you have a leash, though. Please RSVP on this event.

Wilson Tea Party Statement:

This is a place for you and other like-minded Wilsonians who are looking for information and direction on how to take back our country. So you no longer have to feel powerless or alone as you see what is being done to our country. America is being fundamentally transformed and dissolved and we all must work together to be informed and active in halting and reversing the “progressive” direction we are being forced into.

Of course, for all of us, this can start in our homes. So we need to talk to our family and friends about America’s founding values and principles, as seen below. Then, we need to interact with our neighbors by hosting or attending weekly meetings in living rooms, coffee houses or restaurants throughout our community so that we can share thoughts, concerns and solutions with one another. Only then will we become a part of the solution.

Since there is so much disinformation in the mainstream media regarding the overall tea party movement, we want to encourage you to take a moment to review our mission statement and core values below. If you decide that this is a cause you are willing to be an active participant in, then please “Sign Up” and become a member, free of charge, so you can start receiving our periodic e-mail updates (we promise not to overload your inbox).

Visit our website often. Every webpage has a specific objective for our cause. So enjoy our LINKS, BLOG, VIDEOS, MUSIC, FREEBIES, and, as you CONNECT with one another, share the ideas and resources that have worked for you in your sphere of influence. And if you wish to make a donation to the Wilson NC Tea Party, please click on our SUPPORT FREEDOM HERE page. Now is not the time to be discouraged. Lift up your head! You have an opportunity to play an indispensible role in helping us to revive our county, state and nation for freedom and liberty. David, the sweet psalmist Israel asked in Psalm 11:3 (KJV), “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The foundations of America are being destroyed more rapidly than ever before and it is time for those who are the light of the world and the salt of the earth to wake up and run into the darkness and infection which is overtaking the God-given destiny of this great land. As you read the information below, please prayerfully consider what our Lord would have for you to do as we work to restore America to her righteous foundations.

“We the people” are rising up in the sound of liberty and we will restore our nation. New tea party groups are popping up every single day all over this country, and together, we are marching, as one, all across this land.

God bless you and God bless the United States of America.

Joel Killion, Founder
Bobby Pittman, Lead Coordinator


MAILING ADDRESS
Please make make your tax-deductable donations out to Americans for Prosperity Foundation and mail to us at...
P.O. Box 8061
Wilson, NC 27893


MISSION STATEMENT
Standing for limited government, lower taxes, free markets, constitutional values, and fiscal responsibility.


The Wilson NC Tea Party is a grassroots, non-violent, non-partisan movement for liberty and freedom that crosses racial, denominational and political party lines. We are Independents, Libertarians, Democrats and Republicans. We are black, white, red, brown, and yellow. We are Catholics and Protestants, young and old, male and female and we are unified around the Judeo-Christian principles and values of our glorious founding.  We are bringing “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” to the table to organize a grassroots voice within Wilson County that stands for limited government, lower taxes, free markets, constitutional values, and fiscal responsibility. We put principle before party and vote for those who are most aligned with our values. We put integrity and character before flowery words and polished personas. We put common sense before utopian ideals and progressive lies.

We do not have a personal problem with any of our leaders. We honor every legitimate, Constitutional government office and position. We love our country and pray, daily, for all our leaders. However, this country is on the wrong track and nearly 80% of Americans do not trust the federal government and do not believe that it can solve America's ills (April 19th Pew Research poll).


OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
[Taken from Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project website at www.the912project.com/the-912-2 and The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen]

The 9 Principles

1) America Is Good.
2) I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. God - “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3) I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. Honesty - “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
4) The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. Marriage/Family - “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
5) If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. Justice - “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
6) I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness - “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
7) I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. Charity - “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
8) It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. On your right to disagree - “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
9) The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. Who works for whom? - “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson.


Joel Killian is a minister and writer and has recently released his first book, The Real Jesus, you can order this book by contacting him at: joelkillian@gmail.com

Iranian Barbarians stone to death a woman as the world looks on

The world watched as Iran ordered the stoning to death of young woman while her children pleaded for her life to be spared. The image of this woman being led to her death, the hurling of the stones, the saliva dripping from the beards of the men who were killing her, and the madness in the eyes of the people around her cannot be dismissed as business as usual for Iran.  This is barbarious  in the eyes of the West, particularly Christians.

The Iranian adulteress will be finding herself in the same situation faced by previous “sinners” in Iran. We can assume that some people in America will take a few minutes to say how terrible this is. Yet we know that the day after we shall wake up to find no commotion whatsoever. We’ll wake up to silence. If the world can watch this and not be affected it really shows how hardened people have become in their hearts. 

After all, everyone understands that there are more important people than another stoned woman in Iran. There’s Israel, and the problem with the Hamas, and the debate over sanctions and commercial ties with Tehran; and so, the bodies in Iran keep piling up, while the people who on other occasions know how to ask tough questions suddenly grow silent.

The world wants to throw ugly hurdles at Israel for protecting herself against such evil that surrounds her. Iran needs to be cut off from the world economic system until it stops evil against its own people and spends everyday trying to figure out how to kill Israeli's.

The paradox is that Iranian brutality in fact provides a clear reflection of all the silent states that don’t care at all about human life, but rather, only concern themselves with future profits from oil.

Just try to examine the real attitude of this world’s main institutions to Iran, a state where you can be stoned over espionage, violating religious laws, protesting against the government, homosexuality, or just for spiting Ahmadinejad or the Ayatollahs.

What takes the cake in light of this stoning was that a few weeks ago, Iran became an official member of the UN’s Women’s Rights Commission. This is a group that was established after World War II in order to turn this world into a better place. Now let’s not pretend that UN voters did now know that Iran, the latest senior member of the commission, is not exactly a women’s rights fan.

So while officials in Tehran engage in debates on whether a woman has the right to end her life under a barrage of small stones while she’s buried chest-high, or maybe she has the right to ask for larger stones to be hurled at her, the very same Iran is tasked with protecting global women’s rights in New York.

 

And will our just world, that is, the Western states whose tax funds sponsor the meetings of the women’s rights commission, do anything about it? Will these states veto Iran’s membership in the commission? And will the US, headed by the most pro-human rights president in its history, embark on a loud campaign against the injustice and immediately cut its funding to the commission? We can assume that the answer is “no.”

After all, these days there is so much work to be accomplished in respect to the Iranian flotilla to Israel; who has time for yet another stoned adulteress? Or as the Persians say, one woman here, one woman there, who cares, as long as law and order is maintained. Otherwise we would just be a bunch of barbarians. They don't even see how evil they are!



Source for the facts of this article: ynetnews and Israel World News

Military Strike on Iran imminent by US-Israeli forces within days

US and Israel Amassing war ships around Iran

   Iranian war preparations   US-Israel                       

Instead of Wilson Christians planning B-B-Ques this 4th of July weekend, prayer for our nation and Israel needs to be at the forefront. The very thing we have dreaded is upon us.  God protect the US and Israel and may all the voices of Christians in every church in Wilson pray. 

Iran's land forces are on ready to retaliate.

In a rare move, Iran has declared a state of war on its northwestern border, debkafile's military and Iranian sources report. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps men and equipment units are being massed in the Caspian Sea region against what Tehran claims are US and Israeli forces concentrated on army and air bases in Azerbaijan ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

The announcement came on Tuesday, June 22 from Brig.-Gen Mehdi Moini of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), commander of the forces tasked with "repelling" this American-Israeli offensive. He said: "The mobilization is due to the presence of American and Israeli forces on the western border," adding, "Reinforcements are being dispatched to West Azerbaijan Province because some western countries are fueling ethnic conflicts to destabilize the situation in the region."

In the past, Iranian officials have spoken of US and Israel attacks in general terms. This is the first time that a specific location was mentioned and large reinforcements dispatched to give the threat substance.
Other Iranian sources report that in the last few days, Israel has secretly transferred a large number of bomber jets to bases in Azerbaijan, via Georgia, and that American special forces are also concentrated in Azerbaijan in preparation for a strike.

No comment has come from Azerbaijan about any of these reports. Iranian Azerbaijan, the destination of the Revolutionary Guards forces reinforcements, borders on Turkey, Iraq and Armenia. Witnesses say long IRGC convoys of tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft units and infantry are seen heading up the main highways to Azerbaijan and then further north to the Caspian Sea.

On Tuesday, June 22, Dr. Uzi Arad, head of Israel's National Security Council and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest adviser, said "The latest round of UN Security Council sanctions on Iran is inadequate for thwarting its nuclear progress. A preemptive military strike might eventually be necessary."

Developments that have set off Iran's war alert:
1.  A certain (limited) reinforcement of American and Israeli forces has taken place in Azerbaijan. Neither Washington nor Jerusalem has ever acknowledged a military presence in this country that borders on Iran, but Western intelligence sources say that both keep a wary eye on the goings-on inside Iran from electronic surveillance bases in that country.

2.  Iran feels moved to respond to certain US steps: The arrival of the USS Harry S. Truman Strike Group in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea and its war games with France and Israel, which included live-fire bombing practices against targets in Iran.

3.   The execution of Abdolmalek Rigi, head of the Sunni Baluchi rebel organization (including the Iranian Baluchis), on June 20 was intended as a deterrent for Iran's other minorities. Instead, they are more restive than ever. Several Azeri breakaway movements operate in Iranian Azerbaijan in combination with their brethren across the border. Tehran decided a substantial buildup in the province would serve as a timely measure against possible upheavals.

USS Nassau: More US naval-air-marine

Debkafile's military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran's shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat personnel.

The USS Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, tasked with supporting the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet area of operations, is cruising around the Bab al-Mandeb Straits where the Gulf of Aden flows into the Red Sea. Its presence there accounts for Tehran announcing Sunday, June 27 that its "aid ship for Gaza" had been called off, for fear an American military boarding party would intercept the vessel and search it.  This would be permissible under the latest UN sanctions punishing the Islamic Republic for its nuclear program.

The third US carrier group to reach waters around Iran consists of three vessels:
1. The USS Nassau Amphibious Assault ship is not just an enormous landing craft for the 3,000 Marines aboard; its decks carry 6 vertical take-off AV-HB Harrier attack plans; four AH-1W Super Cobra, twelve CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, as well choppers convertible to fast V-22 Osprey airplanes capable of landing in any conditions.

This vast warship has 1,400 cabinets for sleeping the entire Marine-24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard.
2.  The amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde which carries 800 Marines equipped for instantaneous landing.

3.  The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland which carries 400 Marines and 102 commandos trained for special operations behind enemy lines.

These new arrivals are a massive injection of naval, air and marine muscle to the strength Washington has deployed in the Persian Gulf-Red Sea-Indian Ocean arena in recent months. The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group consisting of twelve warships is cruising in the Arabian Sea opposite Chah Bahar, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards biggest naval base not far from the Iranian-Pakistan border. It is there that most of Iran's special commando units are housed.

Also posted in the Arabian Sea, further to the west, is the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Group.

According to World News Today, the Prime Minister of Israel and his military heads will be meeting with President Obama and his military heads next week at the White House. Contrary to the nature of the Israeli leader's two previous meetings with US President Barack Obama, this time the meeting will be public.

According to a report by Debkafile, the Israeli Ambassador to US, Michael Oren said Netanyahu would also meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, but will not be seeing Secretary of State Hiliary Clinton, who will still be on trip to Europe. Orren, US Ambassador said the US administration's approach had changed since Obama took office, with a policy of change.  It's not headed the direction of abandonment, it's a shift and our job is to figure where that shift is going and how to adapt. 

Is The Church Ready For His Return

What's Really Going On In The House of the Lord

A lot of people are in fear of losing their soul even though they sit up in the church because they know they have forgotten to get things in order. We've got to get sight of his return. He is knocking at the door. What condition are we in, do we fear his return or are we glad and looking for him?

Jesus is speaking to his church.  Whether you believe it or not, even people doing good will not make it to heaven.  Jesus wants to come in and have an intimate relationship with us.  He is saying, I am knocking. I am trying to come in.

You've shut him out if you're no longer in an intimate relationship. We've been too preoccupied with the things of this world. I'm not talking about people who are lost, but the Christians who attend church regularly. Church goers that don't give Jesus first place. Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you."

This is not a suggestion from Jesus, but a command.  If you want him to take care of your needs get your mind on things above and not on things of this world.  Make up your mind that Jesus is going to be first.

I Corinthians 6:20 says, "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."  Paul says the same thing in 1 Corinthians 7:23.  So Christians today will be afraid to see Jesus  while others will be ready and glad of his coming.

Christians don't like challenges like this.  They say I have a chose to get involved with Christ.
Some will show up at church, but remember you were bought with a price and you sure expect Jesus to show up when you're in a crisis.

Jesus said, my church is not ready, they will not obey the call upon them.  Let me ask you this today, how do you prioritize your time?  As a Christian you are supposed to come into his presence on the Sabbath and come together in fellowship with one another. Is He Lord of your life?

Hebrews 10:24-25 says, "Let us consider one another and stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the DAY approaching."

We've had a falling away and preachers need to preach this message. Its a terrible fear to fall into the hands of the living God if you are not living right. I want you to know that I'm telling you the Word of God today!  You see, the people only want a Sunday service.  We are in the Laodicean age, and we've been deceived and seduced by a spirit to draw us out of Christ's will. Hebrews 10:26-39.

Some people have an opinion but I have the word on it!  People come up to you in the church and say all manner of things that are not biblical.  One woman said the Lord told her to leave her husband. So watch out for those self prophecies that are self motivated and have no biblical basis to them.

God said not to forsake coming into the House of the Lord. Psalms 134:2 Some people say, you don't have to be in church to be a Christian! Well, the bible says something else; that if you're not then you are forsaking his house. He says for us to come into his house and bless His Holy Name. He commands us to pray for one another, yet you see hardly any churches that have altar services much less a night of intercessory prayer every week.  You can miss your miracle because you weren't where you should of been.

We're in the last days and Jesus doesn't leave us wondering what will happen, he tells us plainly what the world will be like in the ends days. Luke 17:27-30. Our society endorses carrying on in worldly matters and endorses it, but God calls it abomination.

Jesus said I have come to preach recovery, and no demon in hell can stop this, and know that the blood will deliver you.  Jesus said that right before the judgment falls, they were marrying and building and drinking and being merry.  He didn't say anything about them committing sin, but a people that didn't put him first. The church is full of this type of people.

Jesus is trying to tell us something about our eternal destiny.  Don't put importance on the flesh life but on the spirit life. Don't be like the people in Noah's day that didn't want to hear preaching of the word. Many of us live like this today, and we are living in the prophetic day. No longer do we search the scripture to find out what will come but we search the scripture and see that that it is here. People are so wrapped up in their self that they have no time to listen to a challenging message that can make a difference.

I don't want to see Christians miss the mark.  They neglect prayer, reading the bible and worship, but they don't see this as sin.  Jesus said, they have forgotten me for many days.  There are two types of righteousness. There are those who have righteousness unto Him, and there's personal righteousness, the pure in heart that will see Jesus.

We preach a soft gospel and it will take you where you don't want to go. We've all been saved (if you've accepted him as your savior and repented) but Jesus said, if you keep my commandments you will be righteous.

Why didn't the Lord talk about abortion, drugs and the overcrowded jails? Because the sin that comes from the same acts in Noah's day will come again. We're in it now. Jesus is calling his church to a place of intimacy.

I've seen people come to church and little by little give up church.  Jesus will never take second place whatever your excuse. Christ is the head of his church, preimminent, meaning first place. I'm not talking here, Jesus is.

Luke 14:17-21 says, "Come, for all things are now ready." But the people made excuses, one had to go buy land, one said, I have to test my oxen (new car), and yet another said, I'm busy with family matters. Is this the report the Master is getting on you? The Master in this scripture is angry.  Does Jesus get angry? Yes he does, he took a whip into the temple when they violated the House of the Lord.

Jesus wants his house filled. He said, For I say unto you, come into my house with thanksgiving and praise. He has invited us to come together in his house and be filled.  He says, take up your cross and follow me, but you want to go your own way. The people that made excuses in this scripture in Luke weren't committing a sin either, but they displeased the Lord. You see, the world, if you follow it will slip you a Mickey Finn if you don't stay in the word, in church and in relationship with the Lord.

America has forgotten who prospered us, who made us strong, yet we refuse to honor the Sabbath. We've removed the blue laws and its business as usual on the Lord's holy day. We've lost honor for the day our Lord commanded us to be holy before him. We need to get back to the basics of Christianity, a return to our first love and a return to covenant.

What was the sin in this scripture? The family matters, taking the oxen out, or work? It was that they didn't honor the command to keep the Sabbath, the eternal command that God established upon his creation.  Pastors see these things that take people away from church, and see a laziness that come over people and habits that are formed that slowly takes them away from the Lord's House.

If this doesn't break the heart of every Pastor, then God help us. Your Pastor is the caretaker of your soul and he's supposed to be concerned about your relationship with the Lord. He should worry about whether you will taste of the Lord's Supper. He should be concerned about the matters of your heart. If he doesn't then the Lord will look upon him with eyes of fire and say, "I never knew you."

If you have ears, hear the word.  If you have eyes, see with a spiritual eye.  I want you to look at the scripture in Revelation 3:19-22 and see again what it says, "To him that overcometh the world, I will grant you to sit with me in my throne and I will write my name in your forehead, and Satan will bow at your feet. Hear what the spirit is saying to the 7 churches."

Most of the scripture here came straight from the mouth of Jesus! Hear what he has to say to you!

The prophetic word God speaks over you

The Prophetic Test


Westmoreland PHC continues this week in the Robert Morris series From Dreams to Destiny. Wednesday night's class was on The Prophet Test God puts all of us through before reaching our destiny.


Pastor Nelson gave us a story about a prophetic word that was spoken to him in 1986 he said, "the Lord told him that he would satisfy him with long life  Ever since then the devil has done everything he could think of to steal God's promise over my life. You'll have to hold on to your prophetic word until you get through the test."


In continuing the 10 tests God puts before us to build our character, you will see how we have to pass these tests to reach our destiny.  World's are framed by the word of God, so everything that God created was by speaking.  God brings things to pass for you through speaking. John 1:3.


Joseph had a prophetic message from God, but he still had to pass these tests too.  If he had relented to Potipher's wife's advances he would have never reached his destiny. He had to hold on to that promise as a dream interpreter and a ruler in the face of circumstances that looked like this would never come to fruition.


The word in John 1:3 is speaking of God's word that creates.  Now if you get a prophetic word that does not match up with God's word, then don't believe it.  We are in a time when there are many people who say they have prophecy but we hear a lot that just doesn't go along with the word. Like what day Jesus is coming back. That is not biblical because Jesus tells us that no man knows the day or hour.


God has a plan for you just like he did Joseph.  When the word is released, a prophetic word, God has already spoken it over your life.  The prophetic word is to make the dream a reality. It's more of a confirmation of what is already in your spirit.  The prophetic word will not come to life without obedience to the word.


It looked impossible that Joseph's dream was going to happen when he was sent to prison. So those words were tested. Would he believe God's word over him or circumstances that confirm hopelessness? Joseph never lost hope or quit believing in his dream because we can see that by his attitude and helping others in prison and giving hope by interpreting dreams of others.


In Psalm 105:17-19 we see that, "The word of the Lord tried him."  Until the prophetic word comes to reality God will test you with his word.  It's when the circumstances suddenly don't line up with the prophecy over you that you're in your test.


Your prophetic word comes to you by way of a dream or in God's word through the Holy Spirit.  The bible is the word that must be measured by all other words that is coming before you in the world.  All prophecy should be measured by the word.


God spoke through a dream to Joseph concerning his destiny.  When you were born God spoke a word over you.  It is up to us to find that word and destiny through our relationship with God and from his word.


Preachers that say God doesn't speak anymore will still say, I was called to preach.  Then they need to tell us who called them!  If you want to know God's voice then you'll have to spend time in his presence and in his word.  The bible says not to despise prophecy, but prophetic words are only a part of knowing your destiny.


No one has the full loaf of bread to begin with, but only a piece, but if you'll put your piece with other pieces you'll come up with a loaf.  We have a tendency to pick and choose prophetic words of those we like only.  So if you hear two preachers prophecy and one says, it's going to be a dark year, and the other says well, I got a word from God that it's going to be a light for the people this year.  They may both be right because when put together it may just mean like it was in Egypt when darkness covered the land there was light in Goshen.


So how are prophetic words judged? Deuteronomy 13:1-3 says, "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods', which you have not known, 'and let us serve them, "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul."


Hold onto prophetic words for they are your confirmation words for you to step into the dream that is already in you. Look at 1 Thess 5:18-21 and 1Thess 1:18-20.  So not holding on to a word from God is blasphemy when you know you have clearly heard it.


No matter what anybody says to hurt your dream or does to stop your dream you hold on to that word that God has said over your life.  Sooner or later Christians are going to have to read the bible to get to the truth, you might as well start now.


These classes of the live tape series from Robert Morris will continue next Wednesday night at 7:00 at Westmoreland PHC, 2425 Nash Street, NW, Wilson, North Carolina, (252) 237-0636. Leading the introduction will be Pastor Jerry Nelson.  These classes are open to anyone who wishes to attend and are welcome to the singing prior to the classes.


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