[Faith-talk] Carmel Alert

[Linda Mentink]

Hi all,

I get this bulletin every week.  I know we are in the last days.  Read on.



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Oversight Board :  Pastor Mike Fryer,  Sid Roth - 
Messianic Vision,  Motte Sircus

The CARMEL ALERT Nov 14th 2008
A compilation of news reports from the past week 
for the information of those committed to praying
  for Israel  and the salvation of the Jewish  people.

Stefan's Comment:  The Words of the Prophets Are Written on the Subway Walls
>Jeremiah 14:13-14 "Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! 
>Behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not 
>see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I 
>will give you assured peace in this place.' And 
>the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies 
>in My name. I have not sent them, commanded 
>them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a 
>false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and 
>the deceit of their heart.  (NKJ)
>
>Back in the days of Jeremiah and the prophets, 
>the people of Israel had the word of God, at 
>least some of it. They had the books of Moses 
>that include Gods instructions on the things 
>that matter to Him and are close to His heart. 
>God went into much detail in explaining what He 
>does not approve of and what is an abomination 
>in His sight. He also noted, on many occasions, 
>that if the children of Israel do not walk in 
>His ways and obey the voice of the Lord that He 
>would punish them harshly and remove them from 
>the land of inheritance that He had given to them.
>
>The children of Israel did much evil in the eyes 
>of God such as (amongst many other things) 
>worshipping other gods, sacrificing to them, 
>burning incense to them and building alters to 
>them. Gods word stated very clearly what would 
>happen if the people performed these 
>abominations. The false prophets in Jeremiah's 
>time stood up and spoke directly against what 
>God had said, and that despite all the evil that 
>they were doing they would continue to prosper and dwell securely in the land.
>
>The true prophets of old, sent by God, were the 
>ones who stood up and told everyone the bad 
>news, or the news that no one wanted to hear 
>that usually went something along the lines of 
>"repent of your wicked ways, return to the Lord 
>and He will forgive you, but if you continue in 
>them He will kick you out of the land, smite you 
>with the sword and so on...". These words were 
>not listened to and the prophets who spoke them 
>were persecuted and mocked instead. As Yeshua 
>said in Matt 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the 
>one who kills the prophets and stones those who 
>are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather 
>your children together, as a hen gathers her 
>chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! (NKJ).
>Paul also warned of such men who would rise up 
>in the latter days in 2 Tim 4:3-4 "For the time 
>will come when they will not endure sound 
>doctrine, but according to their own desires, 
>because they have itching ears, they will heap 
>up for themselves teachers and they will turn 
>their ears away from the truth, and be turned 
>aside to fables.(NKJ) Obviously not much is new 
>under the sun as King Solomon wisely said.
>
>Those fables that Paul is speaking about are the 
>same fables, unsound doctrines and non-truths 
>that the false prophets were declaring in the 
>time of Jeremiah by saying to the people that 
>they will have peace and be secure and prosper 
>when the very word of God said the exact 
>opposite about those who worshipped idols and did evil in the sight of God.
>
>Today it is not much different. There are many 
>so called / self proclaimed 'prophets' walking 
>around and declaring all kinds of 'words' that 
>go directly against God's word. Prophecies are 
>coming out saying that the world situation is 
>going to get better or that God is going to 
>restore and bless certain countries that very 
>obviously not standing with or supporting 
>Israel. There are many prosperity doctrines 
>being proclaimed throughout the congregations of 
>the world and many people are buying into them. 
>I believe that God wants to bless us and give us 
>the best (which in many cases His best is a 
>little different from our best. The 'best' car 
>for me is a Ferrari but God's best car for us 
>may be something a little different - see Isaiah 
>55:8-9 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 
>nor are your ways My ways...") but still God's 
>word is very clear on what is going to happen in 
>the world, and to believers in particular, 
>during the end days. Persecution, death and 
>tribulations. Nations that deal unjustly with 
>Israel will be judged harshly (even thought in 
>many cases it is God Himself who prompts those 
>nations against Israel in the first place), not prosper.
>
>Amongst all these terrors we also have hope. 
>Yeshua said not to worry about these things 
>because He has overcome the world and in the 
>book of Daniel (11:32) it is written that those 
>who know their God will carry out great 
>exploits.  Times are becoming darker and we need 
>to be able to discern between what comes from 
>God and what is of the flesh, or, the deceit of 
>our own hearts. God's word is our standard and 
>the light unto our feet and everything is to be 
>measured by it along with the Holy Spirit who 
>helps us to walk in all truth. God, through His 
>spirit, also gives us a spirit of discernment so 
>that we can see what is from Him and what is 
>not, as God's Ruach (Spirit) cannot go against His own word.
>Now is the time to burrow deep into the word of 
>God, to place His truths as the foundations of 
>our lives and allow His sprit to sharpen us so 
>that the evil one will not be able to deceive us in these perilous times.

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by 
standing in defense of her right to exist on the 
land given to th Jewish people by the God of 
Israel Lets pray that Israel will turn back to 
their God.  Do not be silent, but share this with 
your fellow Christians, share it with your 
pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to 
speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to 
the Muslims,  and please remember to pray for our 
son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.

Shabbat Shalom  ....    David & Josie

THIS WEEKS NEWS REPORTS

1. Israeli Lightly Wounded As Rocket Barrage Hits 
Negev     Har Aretz News    Nov 14th
      A barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza 
Strip exploded in the western Negev on Friday 
morning, leaving one Israeli lightly 
wounded.   The strikes began in the early hours 
of Friday when eight Qassams exploded in and 
around the southern city of Sderot. Another five 
rockets, claimed by Hamas to be of the Grad type, 
struck Ashkelon a few hours later.   One Israeli 
suffered shrapnel wounds and another four were 
treated for shock after the first eight rockets 
exploded in Sderot and in a kibbutz nearby. Two 
of the rockets that hit Sderot damaged local 
buildings.   Immediately after the initial 
barrage, an Israel Air Force air craft fired a 
missile at a rocket-launching area in the 
northern Gaza Strip, wounding two gunmen.
The two gunmen named as members of the Islamic 
Jihad militant group. Hamas claimed 
responsibility for all of the rockets fired on 
Friday.  Meanwhile, Israel on Thursday delivered 
a message to Hamas via Egyptian intermediaries 
indicating that while it has no interest in 
escalating tensions along the Gaza border, it 
would retaliate against any attempt by the 
Islamist group to carry out attacks.

2.  Ceremonies Around the World Remember 
Kristallnacht    Jerusalem Post   Nov 9th
     More than 150 Jewish communities across 
Europe kept the lights of their local synagogues 
on overnight Sunday, as the Jewish world marked 
the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the Night 
of the Broken Glass.  The notorious 1938 Nazi 
pogrom was the first in a series of violent riots 
that effectively began Nazi Germany's attempt to 
destroy European Jewry.  During November 9-10, 
1938, hundreds of synagogues and Jewish homes 
were burned down, tens of thousands of Jews were 
arrested and deported to concentration camps, and 
over 90 Jews were murdered.  The World Zionist 
Organization initiative, calling on rabbis and 
community leaders turn on all the lights in their 
synagogues - as well as to light candles and 
torches - was meant to commemorate the pogrom in a highly symbolic way

3. With Obama at Helm, Iranian Threat Looms Large    Israel Today News Nov 9th
      With President-elect Barack Obama ready to 
assume power in the most powerful nation on 
earth, Israel faces the grave prospect of a 
nuclear Iran. Barry Rubin, director of the Global 
Research in International Affairs Center, says he 
is worried about Obama’s stated intention to 
“conciliate with our enemies, not support our 
friends. That worries me a great deal.”  Rubin 
said that while the Israeli-Palestinian situation 
is not likely to be vastly affected by any 
American president, the more serious threat is a 
nuclear Iran and the “extremely serious strategic 
challenge which affects 20 countries or more.  We 
have every reason to believe that [Obama] will 
take a relatively soft approach, whether or not 
he holds direct negotiations or indirect 
negotiations” with Iran, Rubin told a news 
briefing in Jerusalem last week. “We cannot 
expect that he will take a tougher line on 
sanctions and pressures, and he will not persuade 
Tehran that he’s going to do so. This will have 
the predictable effect that the Iranians are 
going to push ahead on nuclear weapons as fast as 
they have with much less concern over the consequences.”
      While Israeli leaders welcomed Obama’s 
election and said they expect the “special 
strategic relationship” between the two countries 
to continue, signs of strain quickly emerged. A 
day after the election, Foreign Minister Tzipi 
Livni publicly condemned Obama’s plans to talk to 
Iran.  “We live in a neighborhood in which 
dialogue­in a situation where you have brought 
sanctions, and you then shift to dialogue­is 
liable to be interpreted as weakness,” Livni 
said. Asked if she supported the US dialogue with 
Iran, Livni replied: “The answer is no.”
Some Israelis are jealous of a charismatic figure 
that galvanized a nation, a dynamic missing in 
Israeli politics. As Israel heads toward its own 
elections, no such visionary leader has risen 
up.   But others expressed misgivings about 
Obama’s policies toward Israel. An editorial in 
the right-wing Israel National News said Obama’s 
readiness to sit down with an adversary comes 
from his “limited experience in international 
affairs. One who surrenders and retreats in hopes 
of gaining a little peace places his own survival 
in jeopardy,” the editorial said. “Such has been 
Israel’s experience at least since the year 2000, 
and such will be the experience of the United 
States if it sacrifices the interests of its 
allies in the pursuit of facile and elusive 
‘solutions.’”   More cause for concern came from 
the Arab press. The Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar 
reported that Obama told Palestinian President 
Mahmoud Abbas in secret that he supports a 
Palestinian state and Arab “rights to East Jerusalem.”

4. Livni Rejects Olmert's Call for Total 
Surrender    Israel Today News   Nov 11th
     Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, head 
of the ruling Kadima Party, distanced herself on 
Tuesday from remarks by caretaker Prime Minister 
Ehud Olmert to the effect that Israel should meet 
nearly all Arab territorial demands.   Livni told 
Army Radio that Olmert's positions regarding the 
peace process are today irrelevant, and that she 
will not allow the deposed prime minister to 
influence the policy decisions of the next 
government to be elected in February.   A day 
earlier Olmert used a memorial ceremony marking 
the 13th anniversary of the assassination of 
former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a platform 
to push his defeatist positions.   "We must 
concede parts of the homeland we have prayed for 
and dreamt of for generations," said Olmert. "We 
must relinquish Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, 
and return to that territory which comprised the 
State of Israel until 1967, with the necessary 
amendments stemming from the realities created on ground."
      Olmert's critics on the Right, meanwhile, 
pointed out that Olmert was grossly 
misrepresenting the legacy of Rabin, whose own 
political doctrine far more closely resembled 
that of right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu and 
his colleagues.  In his final Kenesset speech 
just days before he was murdered, Rabin stated 
forcefully that Israel "will not return to the 
June 4, 1967 lines."  Rabin also pledged that he 
would never surrender any part of Jerusalem to 
the Palestinian Authority, nor "uproot a single 
settlement in the framework of the interim agreement."

5. Netanyahu Will Halt Land-or-Peace Process 
After All    For Zions Sake News Report   Nov 12
     The office of Likud Party and Knesset 
opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday 
clarified that if elected prime minister in 
Israel's upcoming general election, he will halt 
the current land-for-peace process with the 
Palestinians, despite reports this week to the 
contrary.   Netanyahu spokeswoman Dina Libster 
confirmed to the Associated Press that the Likud 
leader had plans to put territorial negotiations 
on hold and focus on helping the Palestinians 
stabilize and grow their economy.   Libster said 
Netanyahu views the land-for-peace negotiations 
that have been going on for over 15 years, and 
accelerated over the past year by US President 
George W. Bush, as a dismal failure.   "Netanyahu 
does not want to halt talks, but he believes it's 
premature to talk about a final peace deal, and 
sharing control of Jerusalem is out of the 
question," Libster said.  She noted that the 
Palestinians regularly point to their economic 
plight source of their terrorist tendencies, and 
so obviously that situation must be remedied 
before any viable agreement on other issues can be reached.
Earlier this week Israeli media reported that 
Netanyahu had apparently backtracked on his 
position after meeting with and coming under 
pressure from international peace envoy Tony 
Blair and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

6.  Israel Infuriated by U.K. Plan to Label West 
Bank Produce    Ha Aretz News   Nov 14th
     Relations between Israel and Britain 
remained strained on Thursday over Downing 
Street's intention to label products manufactured 
in West Bank settlements, a week before the 
expected arrival of British Secretary of State 
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David 
Miliband, to the Middle East.   Miliband, who 
will visit Israel, the Palestinian Authority, 
Syria and Lebanon next week, is expected to talk 
to Israeli officials over the settlements in the 
West Bank and his country's proposed plan to 
label products manufactured in them. "This 
initiative is a serious and substantial problem 
in relations between the two countries, and is 
generating a sense of crisis," a senior diplomat in Jerusalem said.

7. Obama's Fictitious Pro-Israel Team     by Jan Markell
       There is a saying in the Jewish community, 
"But is it good for for the Jews?"  Thus, many 
are asking, will the Obama administration be an 
asset or liability for Israel? While many 
Christians place little interest or importance on 
this, this ministry does.  Much is being made of 
several Jews who are now a part of the Obama 
administration. Some seem to think that a few are 
very pro-Israel Jews and that we will thus see a 
new course of American-Israeli relations. I hate 
to burst bubbles but they are dead wrong.   he 
Israeli newspaper Israel National News reports 
that Obama hired a number of Jewish advisors who 
are quite critical of Israel, are anti-Israel 
(yes, some Jews are critical of Israel), and are 
in fantasyland about the Saudi Arabian peace 
intentions.  Those include Dennis Ross, Dan 
Kurtzer, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Tony McPeak, Susan 
Rice, Martin Indyk, and several more. These spell 
serious problems for Israel. Then there is 
Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel. He was the key 
person in the Clinton administration to make Oslo 
happen in 1992 and 1993. So we have a group of 
Jewish advisors, some of them Jewish, who are 
unfriendly to Israel's settlement policies in 
Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank and eager to divide Jerusalem.

8.  UK's Brown: Now is the Time to Build Global Society   Nov 10th
       The international financial crisis has 
given world leaders a unique opportunity to 
create a truly global society, Britain's Prime 
Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote 
foreign policy speech on Monday.  In his annual 
speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, Brown -- who 
has spearheaded calls for the reform of 
international financial institutions -- will say 
Britain, the United States and Europe are key to 
forging a new world order.   "The alliance 
between Britain and the U.S. -- and more broadly 
between Europe and the U.S. -- can and must 
provide leadership, not in order to make the 
rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to 
build a stronger and more just international 
order," an excerpt from the speech says.
Brown and other leaders meet in Washington next 
weekend to discuss longer term solutions for 
dealing with economic issues following a series 
of coordinated moves on interest rates and to 
recapitalize banks in the wake of the financial crisis.
      "Uniquely in this global age, it is now in 
our power to come together so that 2008 is 
remembered not just for the failure of a 
financial crash that engulfed the world but for 
the resilience and optimism with which we faced 
the storm, endured it and prevailed," Brown will 
say in his speech on Monday evening.   "...And if 
we learn from our experience of turning unity of 
purpose into unity of action, we can together 
seize this moment of change in our world to 
create a truly global society."  According to a 
summary of the speech released by his office, 
Brown will set out five great challenges the 
world faces.  These are: terrorism and extremism 
and the need to reassert faith in democracy; the 
global economy; climate change; conflict and 
mechanisms for rebuilding states after conflict; 
and meeting goals on tackling poverty and disease.

Quote of the week:     Sky TV News  Nov 
10th      "  Barack Obama is being hailed as the 
saviour of the world  "

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