English: Cartoon of Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, with Iran as puppetmaster. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have watched, read, listened, and pasted together as much news as I can.  I & the other watchmen have been sounding the alarms for some time.  Never have I seen things coming together like now.  Never before except for the beginnings of WW2 has the world seen such danger and chaos about to erupt.  Jerusalem has been surrounded on all sides by hostile enemies.  And it seems this was done by design.  The  so called ‘Arab Spring’  was not started for democracy.  If it was it failed miserably.  Libya has gone to the islamists & sharia law, Syria is awash in blood.  Iran is backing the government forces, with Russia providing the might, and power to back it up.  China is also helping.

English: A map of Arab Spring countries updated and reframed to reflect the independence of South Sudan on 9 July 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

While America is crumbling, Russia has gained in power & strength, China also.  Russia is now taking over Egypt as the US continues to throw temper tantrums because the Islamist muslim brotherhood was ousted.  Then there’s Hamas & Hezbollah, Lebanon is also a powder keg.  Iran is about to get everything it wants including the financing to finish their nuclear arsenal, according to ‘Samantha Powers.’ Read here.  Remember how long it took to get those sanctions?  Now we’re just going to throw money hand over fist to the tune of 6 BILLION dollars, at them.  Then there is this, a warning from a Senior Military Analyst:

(Israel National News)  Senior military analyst Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney spoke to Arutz Sheva on Tuesday, warning that rising Russian and Iranian influence, coupled with America’s waning Middle East presence, has put the US in the most dangerous situation it has been in since the 1930s just prior to World War II.Senior General: US in Greatest Danger Since 30s – News from America – News – Israel National News

Jesus’ words in Luke chapter 21 are coming to be.  I know there are some that think parts of this prophecy was already fulfilled, but remember, God’s time is cyclical not linear.  When I read this after I read the news this morning, it shook me to the core.  And YES Jesus does warn us, His followers, of great persecution coming to us.  He lay’s it out perfect here.  Are you ready?  Jesus warns us:  ‘Be careful or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.’  For it will come upon ALL those who live on the face of the whole earth.  Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.’   And if you want to argue about what the word escape means here, read this, it’s all the times the word escape is used in the Bible, and NEVER is it used as a supernatural taking away.  If you are not ready, and it overtakes you like a thief in the night, you will fall away, will you overcome? Will your heart be weighed down with the anxieties of life?   Will you be able to stand before the Son of Man, or will you hear the words:  ‘Depart from Me I never knew you.’  The hour is late, it’s time to get ready.

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,

As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

 In your patience possess ye your souls.

 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

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