We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do. It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors. For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel. Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite. So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for. It never ends with the Jews.

RT @chesed1973: I’m not Jewish. This is the first chain-type thing like this I have ever done in my life because I am totally a Zionist.

What a perfectly beautiful fall day without a chemtrail...uh, oops, I mean cloud, yeah cloud, long ribbony one that spreads out...in the sky. Pretty rare in my neck of the woods, where it's usually a grid pattern most days 😡

OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.” Calmly, quietly, she understood; these were the last minutes of her life. She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said: “I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me. I love you, Yariv. You’re the best father I could have asked for. Mom, stop screaming. Just listen to me. You are the best mother we could have ever had. Don’t forget to be a good mother to Tomer and Maya after I die. Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you. My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.” When she finished speaking, her parents told her to get out of the car, lie down on the road, and pretend to be dead. With her last bit of strength, she got out of the car and laid down on the road. “Mom, they’re coming to shoot me again,” Libi said after lying down. While her mother listened on the phone, shouts in Arabic could be heard, and then a barrage of gunfire. It didn’t stop. It kept going, until the call was disconnected. And that’s how Libi died—with demonic beasts from the pit of hell standing over her and emptying a full magazine into her body. Libi died with LOVE on her lips: love for life, love for her family, and love for her people. Her memory will forever be a blessing. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW. Israel is hunting down every single Palestinian and Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7th Massacre—to kill them all. They’re living on “borrowed time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Sooner or later, every one of these monsters will be found and eliminated.

QUEEN!! @taliaortati, when we meeting??

Supersessionism is THE dividing issue in the 'Church' today... youtu.be/rw4nEqnc1SY?si=mhw7…

And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” (Isaiah 25:7–9)

The propaganda says Jews arrived from Europe after Herzl to steal Arab land. The propagandists tell us how we arrived on boats from Europe in the 1920’s and 30’s. They tell us we weren’t even there until the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Well, these photos were taken at the Western Wall around 1870. And they tell the world a very different story. They tell the world the truth. The Jewish people were already there. They were always there, continuously. The ones that returned were only the ones that left. But many Jews never left. Because Israel is OUR land. It always has been. Truth - 1 Lies - 0 Photo credit: Felix Bonfils (1870) and other French photographers

There was NO Gaza Genocide.

The days of the Great Awakening in Israel are here. We have been anticipating this for 20 years. A rabbi friend shared this remarkable account: Last night, just three days before Yom Kippur 5787, there was a massive influx of Jews from all over Israel who came to Jerusalem to prepare for Yom Kippur at the Western Wall. At midnight, about half an hour before the event began, police were forced to close all entrances and gates to the Old City because the Western Wall Plaza and every alleyway leading to it were packed with worshippers. Outside the walls of the Old City, tens of thousands of people—and perhaps even hundreds of thousands—gathered to pray. The prayers were broadcast live from the Western Wall Plaza and displayed on giant screens projected onto the outer walls of the Old City. Many who could not enter stood outside and prayed at Jaffa Gate and at the other closed gates and entrances. Anyone who was in Jerusalem last night undoubtedly experienced one of the most powerful and astonishing moments of their lives. All praise to Him. The days of awakening are here. 🇮🇱

"The modern Western gospel is too often a grotesque misrepresentation of the Good News, portraying it as a violent exchange of wrath, instead of a narrative about restoration, resurrection and redeeming love. Nowhere in scripture does it say God attacked Jesus to avoid punishing you. That idea came from medieval Western thinkers, like Anselm of Canterbury and John Calvin." (The Gospel Before Christianity, Eitan Bar, pg. 35)

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Rosh Hashanah (New Year) Musings. Every year the secular world rings in its new year with John Lennon. Imagine no heaven. Imagine no countries. Imagine no religion. Peace, we are told, arrives when the particulars are stripped away. When nothing is left to fight over because nothing is left at all. But the world has more than one new year and it does not need a godless song with a pretty melody and piano part. This week the shofar sounds. For the Jewish people it marks Yom Teruah, the day of the blast, the appointed time when the trumpet calls a scattered people to attention. Tradition hears in it the coronation of the King, the summons to judgment, the memory of the covenant, and the ancient hope of an ingathering yet to come. It is a day for imagining what God has promised and has not yet finished. And it offers a very different imagination than Lennon's. So this Rosh Hashanah, I want to imagine something. Imagine no antisemitism. Not just the word. Not just the public expressions of it. What if the suspicion, conspiracy theories, blood libels, racial hatred, religious contempt, political scapegoating, and obsession with Jewish people simply vanished from the human heart? How different would the world be? Think about what antisemitism has produced throughout history. Expulsions. Pogroms. Forced "conversions". Religious persecution. The Inquisition. Conspiracy theories that blamed Jews for economic and political problems. The Holocaust. Soviet persecution. Modern terrorist movements that still make the destruction of Jewish people part of their ideology. And beyond the direct violence, antisemitism has repeatedly taught societies a dangerous lesson: Find a minority. Blame them for what is wrong. Convince everyone they are the enemy. Then make cruelty seem righteous. That pattern does not stay confined to Jews. Hatred rarely does. Antisemitism has also done something worse than history usually admits. It has attacked the gospel at its root. The good news the apostles proclaimed was not a new message. It was Isaiah's besorah, announced by a Jewish herald, about a Jewish King, to Israel first and then to the nations. Sever the gospel from the Jewish people and there is no gospel left to preach. Yet that is precisely what antisemitism has spent centuries doing. It took a Jewish message about a Jewish Messiah proclaimed by Jewish apostles fulfilling Jewish prophecy and convinced Christians that the Jews were the enemy of the story they starred in. Replacement theology is not a byproduct of antisemitism. It is antisemitism wearing a theological vestment. So I wonder: How much evil in human history would never have happened if antisemitism had never existed? How many wars would have been different? How many families would have survived? How many communities would still exist? How many people would never have been radicalized by conspiracy theories? How much political manipulation would have lost its most convenient scapegoat? How much of Christianity would have remembered what its own Scriptures actually say? I don't believe antisemitism is the explanation for every evil in the world. Human beings are quite capable of inventing evil without it. But antisemitism is one of history's most persistent examples of what happens when hatred is given a target, a theology, a conspiracy, and any lame "justification". That is why fighting it matters. Not merely to protect Jewish people from one particular form of prejudice, but to confront one of the oldest and most destructive ways human beings have learned to turn fear into hatred and hatred into permission. Some will say the gospel is about Jesus, not about the Jewish people, as if honoring one required forgetting the other. But Jesus is a Jewish King. He rose as a Jewish man, ascended as a Jewish man, and will return as a Jewish man to reign from Jerusalem. You cannot honor the King while despising his family, his nation, and the covenant people he came to redeem. To sever Jesus from his people is not to exalt him. It is to invent a different Jesus than the one Scripture actually gives us. Which is why the shofar matters! The trumpet of Yom Teruah does not summon us to a peace built on erasure. It summons us to a coronation. It calls a scattered people home. It anticipates the day when the King reigns from Jerusalem and the nations finally understand where the story was going all along. Isaiah heard that day coming. He saw nations streaming to Zion. Torah going out from Jerusalem. Ten men from every language taking hold of the tzitzit of a Jewish man and saying, we have heard that God is with you. A Jewish King reigning over a redeemed people, with the nations gathered in as fellow heirs and not as replacements. That is the peace the shofar announces. Not peace through subtraction. Not peace through pretending the particulars never mattered. Peace through the King taking his throne and the nations coming home to Zion. So this Rosh Hashanah, imagine it with me. Imagine no antisemitism. Imagine the ekklesia grafted in and grateful. Imagine the nations streaming to Zion. Imagine the Jewish King reigning from Jerusalem while ten men from every language take hold of the tzitzit of a Jewish man. That world is not a fantasy. It is where the shofar has been pointing all along. Grace and peace.

עֵץ־חַיִּ֣ים הִ֭יא לַמַּחֲזִיקִ֣ים בָּ֑הּ וְֽתֹמְכֶ֥יהָ מְאֻשָּֽׁר׃ {פ} She is a tree of life to those who grasp her, And whoever holds on to her is happy. sefaria.org/Proverbs.3.18

You have heard of the Romans Road. I prefer the Emmaus Road, but that's me. The Road to Emmaus and the the Method I Use For Sharing the Gospel On the day of His resurrection, Jesus walked with two disciples on the road to Emmaus. He did not begin by revealing Himself. He did not say, "Look, it is I. I am risen." He asked what they were discussing. He listened as they told Him, sadly, about the prophet who had been crucified and the empty tomb that had left them confused. Then He did something extraordinary. Luke tells us, "Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luke 24:27). He walked them through the Hebrew Bible. He opened the Torah and the Prophets. He showed them what the Scriptures had been saying all along about the Messiah, His suffering, and His glory. Only after the Scriptures had been opened did He reveal Himself, at the breaking of the bread. And when the two disciples reflected on the encounter, they did not say "we saw Him with our own eyes." They said, "Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road, while He opened to us the Scriptures?" (Luke 24:32). The Scriptures were the door. The recognition followed. Philip did the same thing on the road to Gaza. He came upon an Ethiopian official reading Isaiah 53. He did not start from scratch. He met the man where he was, at the passage he was already reading, and, Luke says, "Beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus" (Acts 8:35). Same principle. The Scriptures were the door. Recognition followed. This is the method I try to emulate. Other methods are good too. Peter at Pentecost led with the outpoured Spirit. Paul in Athens led with creation. Paul to the Philippian jailer gave the shortest possible summary. The apostles preached the same Christ with different entry points depending on the audience. The Body has different gifts (Romans 12:6, 1 Corinthians 12:4 through 11), and God has given different callings to different people. Some are given to lead with the cross and the empty tomb. Some are given to open the Scriptures the way Jesus did on the Emmaus road. As long as we are not preaching a false Christ, why would we quarrel about the method? Some brothers ask why I do not lead every conversation with "Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day." I do preach that. It is at the heart of what I proclaim. But I preach it the way Jesus preached it on the Emmaus road, opened up from the Scriptures that were promised beforehand, so that when a reader arrives at the cross and the empty tomb, their heart burns with recognition rather than merely receiving information. Paul tells us the gospel was "promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures" (Romans 1:2). He does not say the promises were downstream of the gospel. He says the gospel was promised through them. So when I take a reader through Isaiah's herald on the mountain, Isaiah's Servant who bears iniquity, Isaiah's ingathering of Israel and the nations, and Isaiah's renewed creation, I am not adding to the gospel. I am opening the Scriptures the gospel was promised through, the way Jesus opened them on that road. The two disciples did not miss the resurrection because Jesus began with Moses. They arrived at the resurrection with hearts prepared to see. That is what the Scriptures do. That is what Jesus did with them. That is what Philip did with the eunuch. That is what this I am trying to accomplish in the book I am working by tracing the roots of the word gospel.

The Gospel Is Larger Than Its Entry Point Some people argue that if a message is not what a first-time hearer must believe to be saved, then it is not part of the gospel. That framing sounds humble. It is actually a reduction that Paul himself never made. There is a difference between the entry point of belief and the full announcement of the gospel. The dying thief heard enough to say, "Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom." The Philippian jailer heard, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved." Neither heard the whole gospel in that moment. But no one would say the gospel is only what a person hears in the first thirty seconds. What they heard was the door. Paul then discipled his converts into the whole announcement. To the Corinthians he wrote fifteen chapters on the resurrection and its implications. To the Romans he wrote sixteen chapters that include the future of Israel, the restoration of creation, and the reign of the King. To the Ephesians he wrote about one new man, the mystery of Jew and Gentile together, and the summing up of all things in Christ. Paul did not treat these things as downstream of the gospel. He treated them as what the gospel is when it is fully unfolded. Paul also did not preach the same formula to every audience! To Jews in Antioch he preached from David and the prophets (Acts 13). To Athenian philosophers he preached from creation and a coming judgment through the man that God raised (Acts 17). To the Philippian jailer he gave the shortest possible summary. To the Corinthians he wrote 1 Corinthians 15. He shaped the entry point for the audience because he knew the announcement was larger than any single summary of it. And Paul said the gospel itself was "promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures" (Romans 1:2). Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah, and the rest are the ones who spoke those promises. The King reigning from Zion. The Servant bearing iniquity and being satisfied. The Spirit poured out. Israel restored. The nations gathered. Death swallowed up. Creation renewed. If these are not part of the gospel, Paul's own sentence has no meaning. So does a Gentile sinner need every element of the announcement to enter it? No. Neither did the jailer at midnight. But if he walks with Christ for the next fifty years, opens his Bible, and reads Romans 11, Isaiah 60, Zechariah 14, and Revelation 20, he had better not be told those passages are downstream of the gospel. Because they are not downstream. They are the announcement Paul said was promised beforehand. Paul told the Ephesian elders, "I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). The whole counsel. Not just a brief summary and no more. If we draw the boundary of the gospel at what a first-time hearer must know to be saved, we have drawn it in a place Paul did not draw it. The gospel is the whole announcement of what the crucified, risen, reigning King has done, is doing, and will do, in fulfillment of everything the prophets promised.

"I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." (1 Cor. 2:2) That verse can be taken further than Paul ever intended. Some Christians use it to dismiss nearly everything else in Scripture: "Don't talk about Israel. Don't talk about Torah. Don't talk about the Kingdom. Don't talk about prophecy. Just preach Christ crucified." But that isn't what Paul was saying. Paul wasn't rejecting the rest of God's revelation. He was explaining the manner of his ministry in Corinth. He refused to rely on Greek rhetoric, philosophical sophistication, or persuasive eloquence. Instead, he centered his message on the crucified Messiah, the very thing both Jews and Greeks found scandalous. In a Jewish context, "Christ crucified" wasn't a reduction of the Bible. It was the key that unlocked the Bible. The Messiah's death only makes sense because of: the covenants, the promises to Israel, the sacrificial system, the Day of Atonement, the Passover, the prophets, and God's plan to redeem creation through the Kingdom. Paul himself continued teaching "the whole counsel of God." He spent years reasoning from the Scriptures, explaining the Kingdom of God, Israel's future, the resurrection, and the hope of the age to come. The cross is not the entirety of the story. It is the center of the story. A center is what holds everything else together, not what replaces everything else.

""I know…the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not" (Rev 2:9 ESV)... Paul employs a comparable rhetorical rebuke: "He is not a Jew who is one [only] outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly" (Rom 2:28,29) By analogy, if Yeshua had said, "Those who say they are Christians but are not," the statement would be understood not as an indictment of all Christians or of an entire community, but as a critique of individuals whose conduct does not align with their professed, identity." (End of Days, Lesson 45, pg. 15) So to all those who profess to be Christians but use these verses in Rom and Rev to undergird your antisemitism, anti Zionism or anti Judaism, you have completely misunderstood these verses in their contexts. Repent of your slander against God's covenant people so that you too may receive "the crown of life" and "not be hurt by the second death".

As a former and militant pretrib rapture dispensationalist of almost 30 years, this one hit home: ""I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book...." (Revelation 22:18). "On a literal level, the prohibition warns scribes and copyists against adding, deleting, or editing content while copying the text of the manuscript...accidentally misinterpreting the prophecy is not the same as intentionally altering the text...nevertheless, it's fair to say that over the last 2,000 years, interpreters have done a fair amount of intentional interpretive addition and subtraction [to the book of Revelation]...[for example], some dispensationalist teachers attempt to insert the so-called rapture at one point or another in the sequence of the book, thereby reinterpreting the tribulations predicted for the nations as things that will befall only those "left behind" when Jesus removes the church from the earth. That interpretation adds to the words of the prophecy."" (FFOZ End of Days, Lesson 45, pgs. 5,6) (And to be clear, the above is NOT saying if you hold to a misinterpretation of the prophecy (as opposed to deliberately altering the text), off to hell you go, so pls don't accuse the excerpt of saying that...thanking you in advance) 😎