JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET
SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO
OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 35 APR 03,26 - TRUMP BLOWS UP IRANIAN BRIDGE.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
Trump announces destruction of Iran's tallest bridge.
Washington,
United States, April 2 (AFP) Apr 02, 2026-US President Donald Trump
said Thursday the tallest bridge in Iran had been destroyed, hours after
threatening to bomb the country "back to the Stone Ages."Ghodratollah
Seif, the deputy governor of Alborz province, where the B1 bridge is
located, said the strike had killed eight people and wounded 95
others,according to state TV and Fars news agency.Due to reporting
restrictions, AFP is not able to access the sites of strikes nor to
independently verify tolls in Iran.Trump posted footage on social media
of smoke rising from the B1 bridge in Karaj, around 20 miles (35
kilometers) southwest of Tehran -- and warned that there would be
further destruction unless Iran comes to the table to end the five-week
war."The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used
again - Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE
IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A
GREAT COUNTRY!" Trump said.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said
in a post on X: "Striking civilian structures, including unfinished
bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender."It only conveys the
defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray."Iranian state
television had earlier reported two US-Israeli strikes on the bridge."A
few minutes ago, the American-Zionist enemy once again targeted the B1
bridge in Karaj," state TV said, adding that an initial strike had
caused two civilian casualties.It said the later attack took place as
emergency teams were deployed to the site to help victims of the first
strike.The B1 bridge, which was still under construction, is the Middle
East's tallest according to Fars/Iranian media, with a 447-foot
(136-meter) column.Trump delivered a speech Wednesday in which he argued
that the war launched by the United States and Israel on February 28
was almost over -- even as he threatened to bomb Iran "extremely hard"
if it didn't bow to his demands."Over the next two to three weeks, we
are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong," he
said in his first prime-time address to the nation on the war.
Iran vows 'crushing' attacks as strikes hit regional infrastructure.
Tehran,
April 3 (AFP) Apr 03, 2026-Iran and its allies traded fire with Israel
and the United States, as Washington-linked assets across the Middle
East were targeted alongside civilian infrastructure -- with the
month-long war on Friday showing little sign of easing.Strikes have
increasingly targeted economic and industrial sites, raising fears of
wider disruption to global energy supplies and deepening the conflict's
impact beyond the battlefield.Iran said its latest wave of attacks had
struck targets in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel in
retaliation for earlier US-Israeli strikes on its industrial
facilities.They included "American steel industries in Abu Dhabi,
American aluminium industries in Bahrain, and the Rafael arms factories
of the Zionist regime", it said.Israel's military warned Friday that its
air defences were operating to down missiles fired from Iran, although
there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.Fresh explosions
had earlier been reported in the Tehran area, with Iranian state
television reporting US-Israeli strikes hit a bridge in the northern
town of Karaj twice -- the first causing civilian casualties and the
second striking as emergency teams responded.US President Donald Trump
-- who on Wednesday threatened to bomb the Islamic republic "back to the
Stone Ages" -- maintained his harsh rhetoric as he posted on social
media that the bridge had been sent "tumbling down" and promising "much
more to follow".The country's two largest steel plants have also been
forced offline by repeated US and Israeli strikes, companies
said.Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthi rebels said they had launched a fourth
attack on Israel, firing a "barrage of ballistic missiles" at targets in
the Tel Aviv area.Despite the bombardment in Iran, families gathered in
Tehran's Melat Park, with men smoking water pipes and children playing
to mark the 13th day after Nowruz, the Persian New Year, when people
traditionally picnic outdoors.A resident said checkpoints manned by
Revolutionary Guards had increased across the city."They gather in the
streets in order to show people that they are still in power and nothing
is gonna change," said the 30-year-old man, who requested his name not
be used.In Israel, Passover celebrations continued, though some marked
the holiday underground."This is not my first choice," said a writer
named Jeffrey at a meal in a Tel Aviv bunker.- Strait tensions -The
conflict has also intensified pressure on global shipping, with the
Strait of Hormuz -- a conduit for one-fifth of the world's oil --
effectively closed by Iran.British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper
convened around 40 countries to demand its "immediate and unconditional"
reopening, while Italy called for a humanitarian corridor to avert a
food crisis in Africa.Tehran said it was drafting a post-war framework
with Oman to oversee maritime traffic, though talks have yet to
begin.The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi,
meanwhile called for UN backing to protect shipping through the strait,
warning that Iran had blocked commercial vessels and imposed conditions
on passage.Bahrain has proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution
that would authorise the use of force to ensure free transit, though the
US-backed measure has divided members ahead of a vote.Against that
backdrop, Trump has warned that further strikes could target Iran's
energy infrastructure if no deal is reached.He said Washington had "our
eyes on key targets", including power plants, while also suggesting
Tehran's new leadership could prove "more reasonable" in potential
talks.Iran has dismissed US overtures as "maximalist and irrational",
saying messages had been passed through intermediaries but no direct
negotiations were underway.The country's health ministry said the
Pasteur Institute, a century-old medical centre in Tehran, had been
heavily damaged in a strike.In Lebanon, Iran-backed militant group
Hezbollah said it launched drones and rockets at northern Israel, a day
after an Israeli strike in Beirut killed a senior commander, according
to two sources. Lebanese authorities said seven people died in the
strike.Eighteen European countries have urged both sides to halt
fighting amid fears Israel could seize territory in southern Lebanon.Amy
Pope, head of the International Organization for Migration, warned of
"very alarming" risks of prolonged displacement.- Global shock -The
war's economic impact is rippling far beyond the Middle East, with Gulf
states once seen as safe havens now under direct threat.Air defences in
the United Arab Emirates intercepted missiles and drones, while global
markets reacted nervously to the latest escalation.Oil prices surged to
around $110 a barrel Thursday after Trump warned of further strikes,
even as equity markets struggled for direction.Analysts said the
president's latest remarks failed to provide clarity on an exit
strategy, with Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid noting there was "no signal of
the US seeking an imminent off-ramp".The World Bank warned of mounting
risks to inflation, jobs and food security worldwide.Airlines in China
are raising fuel surcharges, while Malaysia has asked civil servants to
work from home.Iraq's oil revenues have plunged more than 70 percent
month-on-month, an official said.Pakistan has also sharply raised fuel
prices, with petrol up more than 40 percent and diesel more than 50
percent in response to the global energy shock.Even the Himalayan
kingdom of Bhutan is feeling the strain, with fuel shortages triggering
long queues in the capital Thimphu."We are helpless," said resident
Karma Kalden.
Israel under fire from Iran missiles as Trump issues new warning.
Jerusalem,
April 3 (AFP) Apr 03, 2026-Israel said Friday it was under attack from a
new barrage of Iranian missiles, as President Donald Trump warned the
United States had yet to begin "destroying what's left" with more of the
Islamic republic's infrastructure in his sights.The war started more
than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, triggering retaliation
that spread the conflict throughout the Middle East, convulsing the
global economy and impacting millions of people worldwide.The Strait of
Hormuz -- a conduit for one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied
natural gas -- has come into sharp focus after Iran effectively closed
it, with Gulf nations pushing for a force to protect shipping there, but
a UN vote set for Friday was delayed.Trump has threatened to bomb Iran
"back to the Stone Ages" and warned US attacks would intensify if Tehran
did not reach a negotiated settlement, while Iran has vowed in response
to carry out "crushing" attacks against the US and Israel.Israel's
military reported a new missile salvo from Iran on Friday, with its air
defences operating to down them, but there were no immediate reports of
casualties.Israeli emergency services reported some damage to houses and
cars from an unintercepted cluster missile, while Israeli military
radio said a train station in Tel Aviv was damaged by shrapnel.The
Iranian fire came as Trump said the US military "hasn't even started
destroying what's left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power
Plants!" on his Truth Social platform, several hours after saying Iran's
tallest bridge had been destroyed.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi posted online that "striking civilian structures, including
unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender."Strikes from
both sides have increasingly targeted economic and industrial sites,
raising fears of wider disruption to global energy supplies and
deepening the conflict's impact beyond the battlefield.- New Gulf
attacks -Gulf states once seen as safe havens have become direct
threats, accused by Iran of serving as launchpads for US strikes.A drone
attack on a refinery owned by Kuwait's national oil company on Friday
sparked fires at several of its units, state media said, while the
oil-rich emirate's air defences responded to new missile and drone
attacks.Iran said one of its latest attacks a day earlier had struck
targets in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel.They included
"American steel industries in Abu Dhabi, American aluminium industries
in Bahrain, and the Rafael arms factories of the Zionist regime", it
said.Despite the ongoing bombardment in Iran, families gathered in
Tehran's Melat Park, with men smoking water pipes and children playing
to mark the 13th day after Nowruz, the Persian New Year, when people
traditionally picnic outdoors.A resident said checkpoints manned by the
country's Revolutionary Guards had increased across the city."They
gather in the streets in order to show people that they are still in
power and nothing is gonna change," said the 30-year-old man, who
requested his name not be used.In Israel, Passover celebrations
continued, though some marked the holiday underground."This is not my
first choice," said a writer named Jeffrey at a meal in a Tel Aviv
bunker.- Global impact -The war's economic impact is rippling far beyond
the Middle East.Oil prices surged to around $110 a barrel on Thursday
after Trump warned of further strikes on Iran. Oil markets were closed
on Friday.Analysts said that Trump's prime-time address to the nation
failed to provide clarity on an exit strategy from the war, with
Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid noting there was "no signal of the US seeking
an imminent off-ramp".The World Bank warned of mounting risks to
inflation, jobs and food security worldwide.Airlines in China are
raising fuel surcharges, Malaysia has asked civil servants to work from
home and Pakistan has sharply raised fuel prices.Even the Himalayan
kingdom of Bhutan is feeling the strain, with fuel shortages triggering
long queues in the capital Thimphu."We are helpless," said resident
Karma Kalden.Egypt has ordered shops, restaurants and shopping malls to
close from 9:00 pm on weekdays, hoping to curb energy bills that have
more than doubled because of the war.Trump, whose administration has
been accused of giving mixed messages about the war's end game, has
suggested that Tehran's new leadership could prove "more reasonable" in
potential peace talks.Iran has dismissed US overtures as "maximalist and
irrational".- UN vote delayed -There was a flurry of diplomatic
activity on Thursday over what to do about the Strait of Hormuz, which
Iran has virtually blocked since the war began.It has impacted global
supplies of vital commodities including oil, liquid natural gas and
fertiliser, triggering a sharp rise in energy prices.British Foreign
Secretary Yvette Cooper convened about 40 countries to demand its
"immediate and unconditional" reopening."Iran is trying to hold the
global economy hostage in the Strait of Hormuz. They must not prevail,"
Cooper said in a statement.Underlining the wider repercussions, Italy
called for a "humanitarian corridor" for fertiliser and other essentials
through the waterway to avoid a food disaster in Africa.The UN Security
Council postponed a vote scheduled for Friday on authorising the use of
"defensive" force to protect shipping in the strait from Iranian
attacks, according to the official programme.The 15-member body was set
to vote Friday morning on a draft resolution brought by Bahrain, but by
Thursday night the schedule shifted.The reason given was that the United
Nations observes Good Friday as a public holiday, according to
diplomatic sources -- despite this fact being known when the vote was
first announced.No new date has been given for voting on the
draft.bur-pst/jfx
Argentina declares Iranian envoy persona non
grata, gives him 48 hours to leave-Expulsion of Mohsen Tehrani follows
Iran’s ‘offensive’ response to IRGC terrorist designation, failure to
cooperate with probe of 1994 Jewish community bombing, Argentina says By
Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg and Agencies 2 April 2026, 10:58 pm
Argentina
on Thursday declared Iranian charge d’affaires Mohsen Tehrani “persona
non grata” and gave him 48 hours to leave, the nation’s foreign ministry
said, as the US-Israeli war against Iran entered its second
month.According to the statement, the move came in response to “false,
offensive, and improper accusations” by Tehran, which on Wednesday
accused Buenos Aires of “siding with the aggressors” and violating
international law by declaring Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a
terror group.Iran’s accusations “constitute unconstitutional
interference in our country’s internal affairs and a deliberate
misrepresentation of decisions adopted in accordance with international
law and national judicial order,” Argentina’s foreign ministry said.The
decision to expel Iran’s envoy was also due to Iran’s “persistent
refusal” to cooperate with a probe into the 1994 AMIA bombing that
killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 at the Jewish community
center, in the worst such attack in Argentine history, Argentina’s
foreign ministry said.Argentina has an “unbreakable commitment to the
memory, justice and fight against terrorism, in complete adherence to
international law,” it said.Argentine courts have long blamed Iran for
both that attack and another explosion at the Israeli embassy in Buenos
Aires in 1992 that killed 29 people and wounded 200.Iran denies
involvement and has refused to hand over any suspects, including senior
Iranian military officer Ahmad Vahidi, who was named IRGC chief after
his predecessor and much of Iran’s top brass were killed at the start of
the US-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran on February 28.Argentina is
home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with nearly
300,000 people living mostly in Buenos Aires.Under President Javier
Milei, who took office in late 2023, Argentina has been a close ally of
Israel and the US.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
40
nations attend UK-led talks on stopping Iran from holding world
‘hostage’ in Hormuz-Countries represented include France, Germany and
UAE, but not US; Macron says military operation to open strait
‘unrealistic’ as Gulf nations push such action By Agencies 2 April 2026,
9:19 pm
About 40 countries discussed joint action to reopen the
Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran holding “the global economy hostage,”
Britain said Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said securing the
waterway was for others to resolve.Tehran has effectively shut down the
key waterway, which normally carries about a fifth of the world’s oil
shipments, after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign on Iran
on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its
nuclear and ballistic missile programs.British Foreign Secretary Yvette
Cooper said Iran’s “recklessness” in blockading the Persian Gulf
waterway was “hitting our global economic security” as she chaired the
virtual meeting, which included France, Germany, Canada, the United Arab
Emirates and India, but not the US.“We have seen Iran hijack an
international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage,” said
Cooper.“Unsustainable” spikes in oil and food prices were “hitting
households and businesses in every corner of the world,” she said in
opening remarks broadcast to the media before the rest of the meeting
took place behind closed doors.European officials said Thursday’s
initial meeting focused on which countries were prepared to participate
in the proposed coalition and the diplomatic and economic options
available to persuade Iran to open the strait.Although the meeting ended
without any specific agreements, there was a consensus Iran should not
be able to introduce transit fees on ships using the waterway and all
nations should be able to use it freely, one of the officials said.The
next stage of talks will be held when military planners meet next week
to discuss options, including potential mine-clearing work and providing
a reassurance force for commercial shipping.Meanwhile, the
secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called Thursday
for the UN Security Council to authorize the use of force to protect the
Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks.“Iran has closed the Strait of
Hormuz, prevented commercial vessels and oil tankers from transiting,
and imposed conditions on some to pass through the strait,” said the GCC
secretary-general, Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi.He was speaking in New York
at the first Security Council meeting on cooperation with the GCC, which
comprises Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar,
Kuwait and Oman.“We call upon the Security Council to assume its full
responsibility and take all necessary measures to protect maritime
routes and ensure the safe continuation of international navigation,”
AlBudaiwi said.Bahrain has proposed a draft resolution that would
greenlight states to use “all necessary means” to assure free transit
through the Strait of Hormuz.Macron: Military operation ‘unrealistic’
Speaking on a visit to South Korea, French President Emmanuel Macron
said Thursday that a military operation to liberate the Strait of Hormuz
was “unrealistic,” while lamenting Trump’s differing daily statements
on the Iran war and NATO.“It would take an indefinite amount of time,
and it would expose all those who venture through this strait to coastal
risks from the Revolutionary Guards, as well as ballistic missiles,” he
said.“There are those who advocate for the liberation of the Strait of
Hormuz by force through a military operation, a position sometimes
expressed by the United States,” said Macron, adding: “I say sometimes
because it has varied, it is never the option we have chosen, and we
consider it unrealistic.”The comments came after Trump on Wednesday told
UK newspaper The Telegraph that he was seriously considering quitting
NATO because of its failure to join the fight against Iran.Trump, whose
country is not a major importer of oil via the Strait of Hormuz, also
said in a speech later Wednesday that the strait would open “naturally”
once the conflict ended, and called on countries that use the waterway
to show “courage” and seize it.European countries had refused to send
their navies to the strait because of fears of getting dragged into the
conflict, but concern over rising energy costs has prompted them to try
to form a coalition to see how they can defend their own
interests.European diplomats said putting the coalition together was at
an early stage, with Britain and France leading. The US was not
involved.France’s Armed Forces spokesperson Guillaume Vernet told a news
conference on Thursday that the process would be multi-phased and could
“only take place once the intense phase of the bombing is over.”There
would also eventually need to be coordination with Iran to ensure that
there will be security guarantees for ships, Vernet said, something that
is unlikely for now.Talks had also started on what military assets
could be provided, he said.“We will need to assemble a sufficient number
of vessels and have coordination capabilities in the air, at sea, as
well as the ability to share intelligence,” said Vernet.About 20,000
seafarers on 200 vessels have been left trapped following the closure of
the Strait of Hormuz, according to UN.In a briefing Thursday, the
Lloyd’s List Intelligence shipping data firm said there have been 23
direct attacks on commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf, with 11 crew
members killed, since the Iran war began on February 28.What remains of
the strait’s maritime traffic is dominated by sanctions-evading tankers
carrying Iranian oil, the firm said, adding that a murky operation under
which Iran vets who can pass continues to operate as Tehran maintains
its chokehold over the waterway.Commodities carriers have made just 225
crossings of the Strait since March 1, marking a 94-percent decrease on
peacetime, according to maritime intelligence firm Kpler.Times of Israel
staff contributed to this report.
Israel comes under repeated
missile fire on Passover as Tehran vows ‘crushing’ blows-Attacks
launched by Iran, Houthis and Hezbollah cause few injuries; major
Iranian bridge hit in American strikes as US president threatens to bomb
Iran ‘back to Stone Ages’By Emanuel Fabian,Agencies and ToI Staff 2
April 2026, 5:56 pm.
Israel came under attack from Iran, Yemen’s
Houthis and Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Thursday, as Tehran and its proxies
increased their assaults amid the Passover holiday.Iran on threatened
“crushing” attacks on the US and Israel after US President Donald Trump
vowed to bomb the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Ages.”The war,
which erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has
spread throughout the Middle East and roiled the global economy,
impacting hundreds of millions of people worldwide.Iran launched several
missiles at Israel overnight Wednesday and throughout Thursday, the
first days of Passover, targeting the country’s center and north.
Emergency forces responded to several impact sites, as four people were
reported lightly injured in the Tel Aviv area.The IDF said Thursday
evening that Iran had launched some 20 ballistic missiles at Israel over
the previous day, marking an uptick in the rate of fire compared to
recent weeks.Around half of the missiles were intercepted, and half were
allowed to hit open areas, “according to protocol,” the military said.
At least two missiles carried cluster bomb warheads, which spread
bomblets over wide areas in central Israel, lightly injuring several
people and causing damage.The military assessed that Iran tried to
launch dozens more ballistic missiles to coincide with the Jewish
holiday, but a wave of Israeli strikes thwarted the plans.Footage posted
to social media showed the moment an Iranian ballistic missile struck
the central city of Petah Tikva on Saturday afternoon. No injuries were
reported.There are no reports of injuries. pic.twitter.com/c21gBIliJd —
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 2, 2026-A ballistic
missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen at Israel was
intercepted on Thursday evening, after sirens sounded in Jerusalem, the
surrounding area and near the Dead Sea. No injuries were
reported.Hezbollah fired some 130 rockets at northern Israel during the
holiday, lightly injuring four people.Amid the ramped-up missile
launches, Iranian military command center Khatam Al-Anbiya put out a
statement carried on state TV warning the US and Israel to expect “more
crushing, broader, and more destructive actions.”“With trust in Almighty
God, this war will continue until your humiliation, disgrace, permanent
and certain regret, and surrender,” said the statement.Following an
American strike on a major Iranian bridge, Iran threatened to target
major highways across Israel, including Routes 1, 2, 4 and 6.In a
prime-time White House address Wednesday night, Trump said the US was
“very close” to achieving its objectives but warned attacks would
intensify if Iran did not reach a negotiated settlement.“Over the next
two to three weeks, we are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages,
where they belong,” Trump said in a 19-minute speech delivered in front
of American flags.In some of the first major strikes since Trump’s
speech, the key B1 highway bridge linking Iran’s capital Tehran to the
western city of Karaj was hit Thursday by airstrikes, according to state
media, which said eight were killed and 95 wounded in the attack. The
B1 bridge is considered the Middle East’s highest bridge and was
inaugurated earlier this year, Fars news said.Around an hour later, Fars
reported fresh airstrikes on the bridge, which it said was hit while
“rescue forces were assisting the victims of the first attack.”The
strikes were carried out by the American military. The IDF denied
striking the bridge.Axios cited an unnamed US official as claiming the
bridge — which some reports said was still under construction — had
nevertheless been secretly used by Iran’s armed forces to transport
missiles and missile parts and to give Iran’s military in Tehran
logistical support.Later, Trump shared footage of the strikes in a post
on his Truth Social account, saying: “The biggest bridge in Iran comes
tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow!”“IT IS TIME
FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING
LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!” Trump threatened.The
US had hitherto largely avoided targeting Iranian civilian
infrastructure and even warned Israel against hitting Iranian energy
sites, as Washington has sought to avoid turning Iran into a failed
state.But Trump appears determined to further ramp up the pressure
against the Islamic Republic, even as the latter doesn’t appear poised
to accept Washington’s ceasefire demands.IDF kills ballistic missile
commander in western Iran-The Israeli military continued striking regime
targets in Iran throughout Thursday, hitting ballistic missile
launchers and military financial hubs and killing several top military
officials, including the commander of ballistic missile forces in
western Iran’s Kermanshah region.“During the holiday, we eliminated
Mukram Azimi, the commander of the ballistic missile unit in the
Kermanshah area. Azimi was responsible for many missile launches at
Israel,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said in a press
conference.Three battalion commanders in Iran’s ballistic missile
forces, “who led the fire on Israel” were also killed, Defrin
said.Additionally, the IDF confirmed killing Jamshid Eshaghi, a top
Iranian general, in an airstrike in Iran over the weekend.The military
identified Eshaghi as the chief of Iran’s “oil headquarters.”
Officially, he served as the head of budget and financial affairs at
Iran’s armed forces general staff, a military body that coordinates
between the regular army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps.Jamshid Eshaghi, an advisor to the chief of staff of Iran’s armed
forces, was killed in a targeted attack in Tehran in recent days, along
with five members of his family, according to Iranian media.
pic.twitter.com/e6BKMoYB64 — Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March
31, 2026-The military said the oil HQ is an “integral part of the
regime’s armed forces, enabling the continuation of their activities and
military buildup through profits from oil sales.”On Wednesday, the IRGC
confirmed the killing of Eshaghi following the Israeli strike on
Saturday.The IDF also published footage of a wave of strikes it carried
out against ballistic missile launchers in western and central Iran
during the Passover holiday, saying it thwarted additional barrages on
Israel.According to the military, Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped
some 140 bombs on 50 targets of Iran’s ballistic missile array,
including launchers.A video released by the IDF showed an F-35I fighter
jet identifying a ballistic missile launcher and striking it before it
could be used to attack Israel.Talks said continuing amid threats-Trump
has recently raised the possibility of a deal to end the war, which has
pushed up fuel prices in the US and around the world and pushed down his
approval ratings.He said talks could be possible with Iran’s new
leadership, which he described as “less radical and much more
reasonable” than their predecessors, and warned that if no agreement was
struck, Washington had “our eyes on key targets, including the
country’s electric generating plants.”But Tehran has dismissed
Washington’s ceasefire overtures, describing US demands to end the
conflict as “maximalist and irrational.”“Messages have been received
through intermediaries, including Pakistan, but there is no direct
negotiation with the US,” said Iranian foreign ministry spokesman
Esmaeil Baqaei, quoted by the ISNA news agency on Thursday.According to
Channel 12, US Vice President JD Vance is leading the talks for the US,
with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf representing
the Islamic Republic. The negotiations are being mediated by Pakistan’s
army chief, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, the outlet added.According to
the report, the most recent exchange took place on Tuesday, when Vance
allegedly conveyed that Washington is open to a ceasefire if Iran agrees
to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – a key US demand amid the ongoing
war.Vance also warned that Trump’s patience is wearing thin, while an
American source cited in the report said the US would need roughly
two-to-three weeks to strike all previously identified targets – during
which time the US is hoping to strike a deal.Economic pressure
continues-Meanwhile, Iran’s two largest steel plants have been forced
out of action by several waves of US and Israeli attacks, the companies
have said.“Our initial estimate is that restarting these units will take
at least six months and up to one year,” Mehran Pakbin, deputy head of
operations at the Khuzestan Steel Company, was quoted as saying by the
Mizan Online website on Thursday.Mobarakeh Steel Company in the central
province of Isfahan said that its “production lines have completely shut
down following the high volume of attacks.”Both plants have suffered
repeated strikes since last week.“All modules and steelmaking furnaces
of this industrial complex have been damaged,” Pakbin was quoted by
Mizan as saying.Mobarakeh Steel said late Wednesday on its website that
after the attacks, “continuation of operations is not possible.”Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards have launched missile and drone strikes on
industrial areas across the region and Israel in retaliation for the
attacks on the steel plants, and have threatened further retaliation if
such attacks happen again.The conflict has drawn in Gulf countries once
seen as a safe haven in a volatile region, with air defenses in the
United Arab Emirates responding to missile and drone threats on
Thursday.Trump vowed the United States would not allow allies in the
region — Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain — to
“get hurt or fail in any way, shape or form.”Despite Trump’s vow to
protect the Gulf states, an Amazon cloud computing operation in Bahrain
was damaged Wednesday after an Iranian strike, the Financial Times
reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.Bahrain’s Interior
Ministry said earlier in the day that civil defense teams were
extinguishing a fire at a company facility following what authorities
described as an Iranian attack.On Thursday, the IRGC confirmed that it
had targeted the site, according to state media.Trump’s speech also did
nothing to reassure markets, as oil prices spiked and stocks tumbled.The
World Bank’s Managing Director Paschal Donohoe told AFP his institution
was “extremely concerned” about the war’s impact on inflation, jobs and
food security.
Oil prices jump over 7% after Trump vows to
continue strikes on Iran-Brent crude futures head for biggest daily
gains in weeks, as markets fear Strait of Hormuz will remain closed-By
Reuters and ToI Staff 2 April 2026, 4:42 pm
Oil prices climbed
nearly 7% on Thursday after US President Donald Trump said he would
continue attacks on Iran, stoking fears of prolonged disruptions to oil
supply.Brent crude futures were up $7.65, or 7.6%, to $108.81 per
barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were up $7.06, or
7.1%, at $107.18 per barrel.Both benchmarks were heading for the biggest
daily gains, in both absolute and percentage terms, in three weeks,
though they remained below highs of over $119 a barrel touched earlier
in the conflict.The gains followed drops of more than $1 in both
contracts before Trump’s televised speech to the nation on
Wednesday.“We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to
three weeks,” Trump said. “We’re going to bring them back to the Stone
Ages where they belong.”While the president stressed several times that
the war was close to completion in his speech to the American public, it
was unclear how it would end, with The New York Times reporting that
multiple US intelligence agencies have assessed in recent days that the
Iranian government is not currently willing to engage in substantial
negotiations.He also gave no details on any steps that could lead to a
reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.One-fifth of global oil normally
passes through the strait, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed
Wednesday to keep it shut to the country’s “enemies.”A British-led
virtual meeting of dozens of nations will hold talks on Thursday to
“assess all viable diplomatic and political measures that we can take to
restore freedom of navigation” in the strait, UK Prime Minister Keir
Starmer said Wednesday.Markets are reacting to the absence of any “clear
mention of ceasefire or diplomatic engagement” in the speech, said
Priyanka Sachdeva, senior market analyst at Phillip Nova.“If tensions
intensify or maritime risks increase, oil could test fresh highs as
markets price in potential supply disruptions.”Threats to maritime
traffic have grown as the conflict intensifies. On Wednesday, an oil
tanker leased to QatarEnergy was hit by an Iranian cruise missile in
Qatari waters, Qatar’s defense ministry said.Some market participants
said they had stopped dealing with cargoes priced off the Dubai
Middle East benchmark, normally used to value nearly a fifth of global
crude supply, because ports inside the Strait of Hormuz cannot be
used.The head of the International Energy Agency also warned that supply
disruptions would start to affect Europe’s economy in April, after
the region had previously been shielded by cargoes contracted before the
start of the war.“The next critical signal for markets lies in Iran’s
response and that of the international community, whether President
Trump’s pressure will yield action to secure the strait, which has not
yet materialized,” Rystad said in a note.Meanwhile, Bahrain’s effort to
secure a UN resolution to authorize “all necessary means” to protect
commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz ran into new
obstacles Wednesday.“There are ongoing communications and discussions
with the Council members to bring a convergence of views and find a
draft that can garner consensus, so that it can be adopted soon,”
Bahrain’s UN ambassador Jamal Fares Alrowaiei said.
US said to
deploy additional A-10 Warthog planes to Mideast-US op to seize Iran’s
uranium would take weeks, require building a runway — report-Trump
reportedly briefed on risky plan, which could require airlift of
thousands of troops and heavy equipment to extract buried material, all
while forces would be exposed to fire-By Michael Horovitz-2 April 2026,
12:57 pm
A US military option to seize some 450 kilograms of
highly enriched uranium would reportedly require flying in excavation
equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to fly off with the
radioactive material.US President Donald Trump was presented with the
plan by his military over the past week, two people familiar with the
matter told The Washington Post, though experts said such an operation
would take weeks and carry enormous risks to troops.Iran’s stockpile of
some 450 kilograms of 60 percent-enriched uranium is believed to be
buried under the rubble of sites bombed by the US last year,
specifically near Isfahan and the Natanz area.The mission to extract it
would demand an airlift of hundreds or even thousands of troops
specially trained to remove nuclear material from behind enemy lines,
along with heavy equipment, all while operating under Iranian fire,
former defense officials told the Post.Personnel, which would include
civilian nuclear specialists, would live in a small base instead of a
clandestine site, and after forces completed the arduous task of
blasting through the rubble to collect uranium, planes would need to
take off from a purpose-built runway to carry the material away, the
Post reported.“It is slow, meticulous and can be an extremely deadly
process,” a former special operator trained for such missions said.
Another former defense official described the potential mission as
looking like “you’re not just buying a car on the lot, you’re buying the
entire assembly line.”Trump said in an address to the nation on
Wednesday that the Iranian nuclear sites bombed by the US last June
“have been hit so hard that it would take months to get near the nuclear
dust. And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control.
If we see [the Iranians] make a move, even a move for it, we’ll hit them
with missiles very hard again.”Retired US Gen. Joseph Votel told the
Post that a military operation was possible to extract the uranium, but
that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) personnel were best
equipped to remove the material under a ceasefire.He added that there
were “a lot of risks associated” with a military operation.“This is a
very high order of complexity. There likely will be casualties,” he
added. “But this is the problem set for US Special Operations forces.
It’s what we do. We have people who are specifically trained to go into
these types of environments.”Another former official said an operation
was indeed possible, despite the complexities: “Short of a largely
symbolic quick strike to demonstrate we could do more, to recover much
or all of the material requires a temporary occupation.”In response to
the report, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the briefing
on the plan “does not mean the President has made a decision.”Reports on
such an escalatory military operation came as Trump publicly spoke of
the war winding down, boasting that the US and Israel were close to
completing their key objectives.But two Pentagon officials told The New
York Times on Wednesday that Washington is adding 18 A-10 Warthog attack
planes to the nearly a dozen it already has deployed in the Middle
East.The slow-moving planes, which carry heavy firepower, could be used
to assist in a potential ground invasion of territory near the Strait of
Hormuz aimed at opening the strategic waterway that Iran has
effectively blocked since the beginning of the war, the report said.The
presence of the slow-moving planes suggests that Iran’s air defenses are
obliterated or heavily weakened, the report added.Israel and the US
launched their campaign against Iran on February 28 in a bid to
destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile
capacities. Iran has responded with missile and drone strikes across the
region, and its proxies in Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon have also carried
out attacks, with Israel launching airstrikes and a ground operation in
Lebanon in response to the Hezbollah terror group’s rocket
barrages.Agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
'Some
of the damage will only emerge at the end'Israelis spend Passover under
shadow of Iran war, as businesses cling to survival-Yael Ben Cnaan
struggles to keep Tel Aviv flower store afloat during what is meant to
be peak period; Finance Ministry says economy losing at least 4.3
billion shekels per week By Theia Chatelle 2 April 2026, 1:24 pm
JTA
— The day before Yael Ben Cnaan was set to take over ownership of
Bishvil Flowers, a corner flower shop located in the upscale Lev Hair
neighborhood, an Iranian cluster munition landed on the street
outside.The March 9 impact shattered the store’s windows and left
shrapnel holes in the walls. The flowers inside, which Ben Cnaan was
unable to access due to police closure of the street, were left to wilt.
“In the meantime, the shop was not operating. There was no income, but
the expenses continue: rent, payments and commitments I already took on
when entering the business,” Ben Cnaan said.All of this took place in
the lead-up to the Passover holiday, which, according to Ben Cnaan, is
the most important time of year for flower shops like hers.“We depend on
the revenue during these weeks to keep us alive,” she said in an
interview at her shop.Ben Cnaan was seemingly undeterred by the strike
and wasted no time setting up a crowdfunding campaign and posting on
Instagram that she would soon reopen with a limited number of orders
available for pickup ahead of the holiday. “I don’t have a choice. If I
don’t manage to sell bouquets, we would have to close.”An online
fundraiser has raised NIS 45,000 (about $14,000), according to Ben
Cnaan, allowing her to cover repair costs in the short term. But the
long-term survival of the shop, which has become a community staple over
its 17 years, remains uncertain.In the Instagram post announcing the
limited resumption of sales, she urged community members to consider
purchasing bouquets or making donations to help sustain the business.
“It will likely not be enough,” Ben Cnaan added.Nearly four weeks into
Israel’s war with Iran, which has quickly escalated into a regional
conflict, stories like Ben Cnaan’s are commonplace. Businesses are
struggling due to widespread closures and damage from Iranian missiles,
which have killed 16 Israeli civilians and foreign nationals in Israel,
along with four Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the
war.Now, Israelis are starting the Passover holiday under wartime, with
the conflict casting a somber shadow on the celebrations. Iran launched
the largest missile salvo since the start of the war as families sat
down to their seders on Wednesday night.The missiles punctured efforts
to approximate normality in the hours leading up to the holiday.
Throughout the day, Israelis preparing their meals had to pause cooking
and cleaning to run to their shelters multiple times.With a ban on large
public gatherings still in place, major public seders, such as those
typically hosted by synagogues in Tel Aviv, had waiting lists hundreds
of people long.And hotels hosting Passover retreats saw widespread
cancellations as travelers from abroad were unable to get to Israel, and
as families changed their plans to stay closer to home.The war has also
prompted new reflections on the meaning of the holiday.“We know there
were Passover celebrations in all kinds of surreal circumstances. My
grandmother told stories about celebrating Passover during the
Holocaust,” said Avital Rosenberger, head of the emergency unit at the
Israeli branch of the Joint Distribution Committee. “It’s still our
mission to remember, to maintain routine and to ask what freedom really
means.”The JDC has been on the front lines of assisting Israelis
affected by the war, including residents of Beit Shemesh, Arad, and
Dimona whose homes were destroyed by ballistic missile strikes.Those
involved in relief efforts fear the full scale of the damage will only
become clear after the war ends.“We are so deep in it, and I’m not sure
we’re seeing the whole picture,” said Rosenberger. “Some of the damage,
especially the mental and emotional toll, will only emerge at the end.
We already understand what’s coming.”The growing human toll is one
dimension of the damage. Ben Cnaan’s example underscores the financial
toll of the ongoing war, as well.On the morning of Passover, while many
other stores on Lincoln Street remained closed, Ben Cnaan was still at
work taking orders and assembling bouquets for last-minute shoppers.A
concept and tattoo artist who lives in Tel Aviv, she has worked on films
including “Beirut,” starring Jon Hamm, Ben Cnaan worked in the flower
shop for years before taking ownership.Because her business sustained
physical damage due to the war, she is eligible for state compensation
to offset losses and fund limited repairs. But she still fears that she
will need to close down if business does not pick up soon.According to
estimates from the Finance Ministry, the economy is losing at least 4.3
billion shekels per week due to the fighting. As gas prices continue to
rise following disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, civilians, whether
affected directly by missile strikes or rising costs, are bearing the
burden of the war.For Johnny, who is spending a year volunteering with
the JDC on Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra in the north, the toll of the war ahead
of the holiday is becoming increasingly stark.“They’re exhausted.
They’re absolutely exhausted. And the thought of several more months
like this could really break their spirit,” she said.Johnny, who is
Israeli but has lived most of her life in the United States, returned
before the current round of fighting. She said it has been reassuring to
be closer to her mother in the Galilee while volunteering on the
kibbutz.“At the same time, the community is incredibly supportive and
empowering,” Johnny added. “I know they’ll be OK.”She said she knows her
seder plans with a host family in Rosh Hanikra may be interrupted by
incoming missiles from Lebanon but remains in good spirits.“We may have
to head to the shelter,” she said. “But it’s certainly not the worst
conditions for a seder our people have had to endure.”
PROOF HALF
ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
(DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER
GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR
RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES
IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are
the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war
or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE.
WE KNOW
WHY THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES DO NOT WANT ISRAEL HAVING THE DEATH PENALTY.
BECAUSE THEIR TERRORISTS CAUGHT IN ISRAEL WON'T BE TRADED FOR ISRAELI
SOLDIERS .YOU CAN'T TRADE WHATS DEAD FROM KILLING INNOCENT ISRAELIS AND
PEOPLE.WAY TO GO ISRAEL,FINALLY. AND WHEN JUDGED OF MURDER.THE TERRORIST
SHOULD BE EXECUTED IMMEDIATELY BURNING IN HELL FIRE FOREVER. TERRORIST
OUT OF MIND OUT OF SITE.ISRAEL SHOULD DO THE DEATH PENALTY BY THE
SANHEDRIN JUDGES.
Entrenches apartheid’: UAE, 7 other
Muslim countries blast Israeli death penalty law-Statement by FMs, many
from countries which also enforce death penalty, decries law’s
discriminatory nature toward Palestinians, says it risks ‘exacerbating
tensions’By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid-2 April 2026, 2:45 pm
RIYADH,
Saudi Arabia — Eight Muslim-majority countries on Thursday lambasted
Israel’s passage of a highly controversial death penalty law for West
Bank Palestinians convicted of carrying out deadly terror attacks,
saying the move further “entrenches a system of apartheid.”The statement
was released by foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.“This
legislation constitutes a dangerous escalation, particularly given its
discriminatory application against Palestinian prisoners,” the joint
statement read. “Such measures risk further exacerbating tensions and
undermining regional stability,”The countries “warned against the
increasingly discriminatory, escalating Israeli practices that entrench a
system of apartheid and a rejectionist discourse that denies the
inalienable rights and the very existence of the Palestinian people in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the statement added.The apartheid
charge is not regularly lodged against Israel by Muslim-majority
countries, and especially not by the UAE, which has a closer working
relationship with Jerusalem than each of the other countries that signed
onto the statement.The choice to use the term indicates the extent to
which the law has infuriated Israel’s Muslim neighbors.Under the law
passed by the Knesset late on Monday, West Bank Palestinians convicted
by military courts of carrying out deadly attacks classified as “acts of
terrorism” will face the death penalty by default. While judges can opt
for life imprisonment under vaguely defined “special circumstances,”
the death penalty would otherwise be mandatory and be carried out within
90 days of sentencing.The law has been criticized by the United Nations
and European Union, while the United States came out in support of
“Israel’s sovereign right to determine its own laws.”Almost all of the
countries that signed the statement enforce the death penalty at home,
including Saudi Arabia, which alone executed 356 people in 2025.The law
effectively enshrines capital punishment for Palestinians only, as it
explicitly excludes Israeli citizens or residents, and only Palestinians
are tried in military courts. Israelis are tried in civilian
courts.Though a separate provision allows courts to impose the death
penalty on anyone, including Israeli citizens, it applies only to those
who “intentionally cause the death of a person with the aim of denying
the existence of the State of Israel” — a definition designed to exclude
Jewish terrorists.While the death penalty formally exists in Israeli
law, it has been carried out only once — the 1962 execution of Nazi war
criminal Adolf Eichmann. Until now, Israeli courts could impose capital
punishment only under extremely narrow circumstances and only with a
unanimous decision from a panel of judges, a threshold that has never
been met in terrorism cases.Supporters of the law argue that the measure
will strengthen deterrence against terrorism and reduce the incentive
for terrorist organizations to abduct Israelis.But senior security
officials have long disputed that claim, arguing there is no evidence
that capital punishment deters terrorism and warning that it could
instead fuel retaliation and escalate violence. Representatives of the
IDF, Shin Bet intelligence agency and government ministries voiced such
opposition throughout months of Knesset National Security Committee
deliberations on the legislation.Following the bill’s passage, several
opposition parties, including Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid, Arab-majority
Hadash–Ta’al and the left-wing Democrats party, along with several human
rights organizations, announced they would petition the High Court of
Justice to nullify the law.Fifty-four countries around the world permit
the death penalty, including a handful of democracies such as the United
States and Japan, according to Amnesty International. The group says
that the global trend on the death penalty is toward abolition, with
113 countries having outlawed it for all crimes.
Hezbollah fires
some 130 rockets at north on Passover; 4 lightly injured-2 men wounded
when rocket hits Kiryat Shmona building, 2 more injured in northern
town; IDF says over 40 Hezbollah operatives killed in Lebanon strikes
and firefights By Emanuel Fabian-2 April 2026, 3:11 pm
Four
people were lightly injured as Hezbollah fired around 130 rockets at
northern Israel on Wednesday and Thursday, the start of the Passover
holiday, as the military struck dozens of sites in Lebanon belonging to
the Iran-backed terror group.The bombardment as Israelis celebrated the
first two days of the Passover festival sent hundreds of thousands of
people into shelters, as Iran continued to also launch missiles at the
country, including the north.Two men, aged 34 and 85, were wounded
Thursday when a rocket struck a building in Kiryat Shmona, according to
the Magen David Adom ambulance service.Later, two men in their 30s and
40s were lightly wounded when a Hezbollah rocket struck the northern
town of Bi’ina, Magen David Adom emergency personnel said.Footage showed
scenes of property damage after the barrages in the north, including a
McDonald’s restaurant near Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch with many of its
windows blown out.Damage was also caused to an empty daycare in the
northern city of Nahariya, according to rescue services.Rocket sirens
also sounded in the Krayot suburbs of Haifa, though according to the
IDF, most of the rockets were intercepted and others were allowed to hit
open areas, “according to protocol.” No injuries were reported.The IDF
said on Thursday that more than 40 Hezbollah operatives were killed and
dozens of sites belonging to the terror group in Lebanon were struck in
the past day.The Israeli Air Force bombed dozens of Hezbollah command
centers, weapons depots, rocket launchers and anti-tank missile launch
posts, according to the military.The IDF said the Israeli Navy also
struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in southern Lebanon.Meanwhile, ground
forces continued operations in southern Lebanon.The IDF said troops of
the 91st “Galilee” Regional Division spotted a cell of Hezbollah
operatives and directed a strike against them, and the 36th Division
directed a strike on three armed operatives riding motorcycles, killing
some 10 more gunmen during their operations.The military said the 146th
and 162nd divisions also located numerous weapons and destroyed dozens
of Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon in the past day.Hezbollah has
been firing hundreds of rockets per day, according to the IDF. However,
the vast majority of the daily rocket fire has been directed at Israeli
forces operating in southern Lebanon, with only a few dozen projectiles
crossing the border into Israel.The IDF believes Hezbollah still
possesses thousands of short-range rockets, along with hundreds of
longer-range projectiles. The IDF has said that the terror group is
launching most of its attacks from deeper within southern Lebanon, and
not from close to the border.Katz threatens Hezbollah chief over rocket
fire-Responding to the incessant rocket fire, Defense Minister Israel
Katz again threatened Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem, saying he will “pay a
very heavy price” for the constant attacks on Israel.“I have a clear
message for Naim Qassem, secretary-general of the Hezbollah terror
organization: You and your associates will pay a very heavy price for
the intensified fire toward Israeli civilians as they sit to celebrate
the Passover Seder,” he said, following an assessment with military
officials.“You will not live to see this because you will be deep in the
depths of hell together with Nasrallah, Khamenei, Sinwar and all the
eliminated members of the axis of evil,” Katz added.Israeli officials
have said the IDF is establishing a demilitarized “security zone” in
southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah
is removed.The buffer zone would be controlled with surveillance and
firepower, as well as ground troops in areas deemed strategically
necessary, the military has said.Ten IDF soldiers have been killed in
southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah, two civilians were
killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly
killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.In Lebanon, the
Israeli military has said that it has killed some 1,000 Hezbollah
operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite
Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated when Hezbollah began attacking
Israel the day after the war against Iran began.More than 2,500
Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been struck, including hundreds
of command centers, weapon depots, and rocket and missile launchers,
according to the IDF.Lebanese authorities say that at least 1,200 people
have been killed in Israeli strikes, but do not differentiate between
civilians and combatants.Additionally, some 1.2 million people have been
displaced by the fighting in Lebanon, officials have said.
IDF
official says disarming Hezbollah unrealistic, not a goal of Lebanon
operation-Military to present its buffer zone to plan to political
leadership; will involve razing border villages, setting up army posts
in south Lebanon By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 12:17 pmUpdated at 12:29
pm-APR 3,26
The Israeli military on Friday said it was set to
present to the political leadership its plan to establish a “security
zone” in southern Lebanon, which would involve demolishing Lebanese
villages near the border and setting up army posts several kilometers
inside the country.Meanwhile, a senior military official said that while
the Israel Defense Forces aims to significantly weaken Hezbollah and
remove the threat the terror group poses to northern residents, the
prospect of fully disarming the group was unrealistic and not a
“required goal” of the ongoing ground offensive.“Disarming the
organization is not a required goal at the end of this campaign,” the
military official said, despite previous statements by IDF Chief of
Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and Defense Minister Katz saying that Israel
would not give up on disarming Hezbollah.The official said that to fully
disarm the terror group, it would require the IDF to conquer all of
Lebanon, something that is not planned.As a result, the military does
not expect to completely halt Hezbollah rocket fire, as most launches
originate north of the Litani River. However, short-range projectiles —
of which Hezbollah has thousands — are now largely directed at Israeli
forces in southern Lebanon rather than civilian communities.The military
later clarified in a statement that it was still committed to a
“long-term objective” of disarming the terror group.“We clarify that, as
the chief of staff has said in the past, the IDF is committed to a
long-term objective of disarming Hezbollah. This objective includes a
wide range of efforts that will continue over time,” the IDF said.“The
current campaign is causing blows to Hezbollah and weakening it, and
will advance the achievement of this objective over time,” the army
added.The IDF said its buffer zone plan was being coordinated with legal
authorities and would soon be presented to the political leadership for
approval.Katz has said the IDF would raze all buildings in the first
line of villages, and civilians would not be allowed to return south of
the Litani River until the Hezbollah threat is removed.The military’s
buffer zone plan involves clearing all villages within a few kilometers
of the border, except for several Christian communities.The area, up to
around four kilometers from the border, would be cleared of Hezbollah
infrastructure, and the IDF would establish forward army positions at
strategic locations.The IDF said most of those villages were cleared
during the last ground offensive in late 2024. However, troops have
continued to find weapons and Hezbollah infrastructure in some areas
during the current offensive. According to the military, some of it
predates the war, while other elements were established during the
2024–2026 ceasefire.Military officials also said Hezbollah was “deeply
troubled” by Israel’s intention to continue its offensive against the
terror group even after the war in Iran ends.The war in Iran remains the
IDF’s primary focus, with Lebanon a secondary front. However, in the
event of a ceasefire with Iran, the military is expected to shift most
of its attention to Lebanon.IDF troops of the 91st “Galilee” Regional
Division operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the
military on April 2, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)-On Friday, the IDF
said it killed 15 Hezbollah operatives in a recent airstrike in southern
Lebanon, amid the ground operations.In the western sector of southern
Lebanon, troops of the 146th Division identified the 15 operatives in
their area of operations. A short while later, the Israeli Air Force
struck and killed them, according to the military.In another incident,
the IDF said, the division’s 213th Artillery Regiment identified a cell
of Hezbollah operatives who were preparing to fire anti-tank missiles at
Israel. An IAF fighter jet then struck and killed the operatives, the
military says.The IDF also published footage showing an airstrike on
another cell of Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon.According to the
military, the Hezbollah operatives were identified by troops of the
Givati Brigade on Wednesday. A short while later, the Israeli Air Force
struck and killed them, the IDF said.The IDF said the Givati troops also
located numerous weapons and military equipment belonging to Hezbollah
in the area.Five IDF divisions are currently operating in southern
Lebanon: the 146th and 162nd divisions in the western sector; the 91st
and 36th conducting raids in the eastern sector; and the 210th stationed
in the Mount Dov area.Hezbollah has been firing hundreds of rockets per
day, according to the IDF. However, the vast majority of the daily
rocket fire has been directed at the Israeli forces operating in
southern Lebanon, with only a few dozen projectiles crossing the border
into Israel.Ten IDF soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon amid
fighting against Hezbollah, two civilians were killed by Hezbollah
rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by
Israeli artillery shelling.The Israeli military has said that it has
killed some 1,000 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of
the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated amid
the war with Iran.More than 3,500 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have
also been struck, including hundreds of command centers, weapon depots,
and rocket and missile launchers, according to the IDF.
ICE
arrests West Bank-born Wisconsin mosque president over terror funding
suspicions-Salah Sarsour was convicted by Israel of rock-throwing as a
teenager, moved to the US in 1993; his lawyers and community claim
arrest is an attempt to stifle pro-Palestinian voices-By Agencies and
ToI Staff Today, 6:26 am-APR 3,26
The president of Wisconsin’s
largest mosque was detained by US federal immigration agents, with
authorities saying he was suspected of funding terror groups.Salah
Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United
States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who surrounded his car on Monday in
Milwaukee after he left his home, according to the Islamic Society of
Milwaukee.Supporters called for his immediate release on Thursday. His
attorneys said he was detained because he is a foreign policy threat, a
claim they argue has no merit.Instead, they assert Sarsour, 53, was
targeted for criticizing Israel and for a conviction as a minor by
Israeli military courts in the West Bank, including for throwing rocks
at Israeli officers.“Our government should not be doing the bidding of a
foreign government,” attorney Munjed Ahmad charged. “There’s no
question in my mind that this is to stifle the discourse on the
Palestinian narrative.”Attorneys said Sarsour, born in the West Bank,
has no criminal record in the US, where he has lived for more than 30
years. They said the US government has known about Sarsour’s conviction
in Israel since he came to the US in 1993.The US Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), of which ICE is a part, confirmed his arrest and accused
Sarsour of lying on his immigration forms and alleged that he was
“suspected of funding terror organizations.”Noting his past conviction,
DHS said he was previously “convicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at
the homes of Israeli armed forces.”Sarsour’s attorneys have likened the
case to that of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate
student activist who faces deportation because the federal government
said he was a foreign policy threat and supports the Hamas terror
group.Sarsour has been the board president of the Islamic Society of
Milwaukee, the largest Islamic organization in the US state, for five
years. His attorneys say he holds a green card and lives just outside
Milwaukee. His wife and four adult children are US citizens.At a crowded
news conference, boisterous supporters chanted for Sarsour’s release,
recounting his advocacy for those in need. Several recalled Sarsour’s
stories about his childhood, including allegations of inhumane treatment
while being detained by Israel.“He was targeted because of one thing,
because he dared stand up to the Israeli army,” Othman Atta, one of
Sarsour’s attorneys, told the crowd. “And he was not a US citizen.”The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Atta, also the executive director of
the mosque, as saying that deportation documents focused on Sarsour’s
arrest as a teenager living in the West Bank to argue he provided
material support for extremists. Atta denied that Sarsour supported
Hamas.A diverse group of religious leaders in attendance called Sarsour a
valuable community member.“This appears to be just the latest example
of how this administration seeks to silence opposition and intimidate
those who speak and act differently,” said the Rev. Paul D. Erickson,
bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America.Sarsour’s arrest also prompted outcry from elected
officials, including Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, who called it “an
outrage.”“He is a legal permanent resident. There is no substantive
evidence he has done anything wrong,” Johnson said Thursday in a post on
X. “This is another example of overreach and harm from the US
immigration authorities.”Sarsour is being held at a county jail in
Indiana. His attorneys have filed a petition seeking his release.“He is
ready to fight tooth and nail to make sure that he’s not dragged through
the mud,” Ahmad said. “He wants to stay in this country.”
Germany
bans planned rally against Israel’s ‘genocide’ at Buchenwald former
Nazi camp-Organizers appeal move in court; Jewish leader has slammed
‘perfidious attempt to relativize the murder of over 11,000 Jews… by
comparing it to Israel’s actions in recent Gaza war’By Shira Li Bartov
Today, 4:48 am-APR 3,26
JTA — German authorities have shut down a
planned anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian vigil at the Buchenwald Nazi
concentration camp memorial after a fierce outcry.The rally had been
slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s
liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would
ban the event on the memorial grounds and offered a downtown square as
an alternative location.Kufiyas in Buchenwald, the group behind the
campaign, announced it was challenging the ban in court. The group said
it aimed to “commemorate victims of genocide and fascism” and “uplift
the fundamental duty to fight against all genocides, particularly the
genocide currently taking place in Palestine.”The planned event had been
heavily criticized by German leaders, such as federal antisemitism czar
Felix Klein. In an interview with the Jüdische Allgemeine, Klein said
he viewed the rally as “disrespectful self-promotion and a perfidious
attempt to relativize the murder of over 11,000 Jews in the Buchenwald
concentration camp by comparing it to Israel’s actions in the recent
Gaza war.”The campaign was also protested in a joint statement by a
coalition of 17 organizations, including several Jewish communal and
academic groups. They accused the organizers of “instrumentalizing the
Buchenwald memorial site as a platform for anti-Jewish
agitation.”Kufiyas in Buchenwald had support from the International
Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and the German group Jewish Voice for a Just
Peace in the Middle East.Rachael Shapiro, an organizer with the
International Jewish Anti-zionist Network, said the memorial
foundation’s “insistence on the singularity and exceptionalism of the
Nazi genocide of European Jews” served to “actively provide cover for
Germany’s participation in and funding of the mass murder of
Palestinians.”“As Jewish, queer and other anti-fascists, many of us, the
children and grandchildren of survivors of and those persecuted and
murdered in the Nazi genocide, we wholeheartedly reject the German state
dictating conditions around commemoration,” Shapiro said in a
statement.The event originated as a protest against a German court’s
decision that Buchenwald could refuse entry to visitors who wear a
Palestinian keffiyeh. Kufiyas in Buchenwald also said the memorial had
suppressed other voices that criticized Israel. They cited the treatment
of Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm, the grandson of Holocaust survivors
and a critic of the Israeli government, who was disinvited from giving a
commemoration speech at Buchenwald after pressure from the Israeli
embassy in Berlin.Kufiyas in Buchenwald said it continued to call on the
memorial foundation to “openly address the genocide in Gaza” and lift
restrictions on pro-Palestinian symbols and speech at the site. The
group said its demands honored the “Oath of Buchenwald,” a promise
spoken by survivors of the camp during a memorial ceremony on April 19,
1945.These survivors said in six languages, “We will only give up the
fight when the last of the guilty has been judged by the tribunal of all
nations. The absolute destruction of Nazism is our device. The building
of a new world of peace and freedom is our ideal.”
French police
ban Muslim gathering near Paris over fears far-right groups could
target it-Force cites ‘major terrorist risk’ amid ‘particularly tense
international and national context’By AFP Today, 3:59 am-APR 3,26
PARIS,
France — The Paris police on Thursday banned an annual gathering of
French Muslims north of the capital, citing a “major terrorist risk”
that it might be targeted.The Annual Gathering of the Muslims of France
had been due to take place at Bourget, just north of Paris, from Friday
until Monday.The order banning it issued by the Paris police said there
was a risk that “small far-right groups” might try to disrupt the
event.But the police order said the event was “taking place in a
particularly tense international and national context.”The gathering was
“exposed to a significant terrorist risk targeting the Muslim
community,” it added.The order cited a foiled bid last weekend to bomb
the Bank of America building in Paris — an event, it said, that
underlined the seriousness of the threat inside France.French
prosecutors said the attempted attack might have been linked to a
pro-Iran group, as security fears flare over the war in the Middle
East.Police also cited a polarized political debate during municipal
elections last month.The decision comes as the French interior ministry
prepares a draft law designed to tackle the danger of radical Islamist
elements infiltrating Muslim groups.The bill is due to be presented to
President Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet at the end of April, the ministry
told AFP, confirming a report by Le Parisien newspaper.
Rights
group head warns of ‘alarming’ risk of long-term mass displacement in
Lebanon-Claiming crisis ‘far more severe’ than in previous
Israel-Hezbollah wars, International Organization for Migration’s Amy
Pope says world doesn’t ‘understand the scale’ of problem-By Lisa Golden
Today, 12:57 am-APR 3,26
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — International
Organization for Migration (IOM) chief Amy Pope told AFP on Thursday in
Beirut that the prospects for prolonged mass displacement in Lebanon,
due to the renewed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, were “very
alarming.”“I think those prospects are very alarming because you look
right now at the level of destruction that’s happening and… the further
destruction that has been threatened,” she said when asked about the
possibility of long-term mass displacement in the country.“There are
parts of the south that are being completely flattened… even if the war
ends tomorrow, that destruction remains and there needs to be a
rebuilding,” she said, noting that reconstruction would require funding,
resources and peace.“Unless we start to see those things come into
place, that means that people will be displaced now for who knows how
long,” she added.Lebanon says more than one million people have been
displaced since the country was drawn into the Middle East war last
month, when the Tehran-backed Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel to
avenge the US-Israeli attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Israel has responded with massive strikes across
Lebanon and a ground operation, issuing sweeping evacuation warnings for
swaths of south Lebanon and Beirut’s densely populated southern
suburbs.Authorities say more than 136,000 people are staying in
collective shelters, including schools and stadiums, while some people
are sleeping on the streets.According to Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf
Salam, over one million people have been internally displaced in the
country, nearly a fifth of Lebanon’s population.Israel’s Defense
Minister Israel Katz has said the military would seize a swath of
southern Lebanon and hold it even after the war ends, and that the
return of hundreds of thousands of displaced Lebanese would be
“completely prevented” until northern Israel’s security was
ensured.Displacement crisis ‘far more severe’ than before-Pope said the
current displacement crisis was “far more severe” than during the
previous hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, which ended with a
November 2024 ceasefire.She noted the high number of displaced people,
shelters struggling to cope and the fact that some people had been
unable to return home after being displaced during the previous round of
fighting.People outside Lebanon “absolutely do not understand the
scale” of the displacement crisis, which is “coming at a time where
resources for humanitarian response are more limited than ever,” she
said.The UN has launched a flash humanitarian appeal for more than $300
million for Lebanon, including an IOM appeal for around $19 million,
Pope said, “but very, very little of that has now come in.”“We’re seeing
some of the most basic life-saving support really be needed,” she said,
including shelter and blankets.Pope also said a strike this week on
Beirut’s Jnah district damaged the IOM premises nearby, shattering
windows and rendering the agency’s health clinic for migrants “basically
unusable.”Authorities said the strike killed seven people, while Israel
said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander.Pope argued that such
strikes were “shocking.”“If people can’t find safety, they move. And if
they can’t find safety at home, they move across borders,” she
said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Drone
maker backed by Trump’s sons looks to sell to Gulf states attacked by
Iran-Former White House ethics chief says countries are under ‘enormous
pressure’ to buy defensive equipment from Powerus after Eric and Donald
Jr. joined firm as stakeholders By Bernard Condon 2 April 2026, 11:35 pm
NEW
YORK (AP) — A drone maker backed by US President Donald Trump’s two
oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under
attack by Iran and dependent on the US military led by the men’s
father.The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus, which announced a deal
last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., positions
the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father
began.“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons
of the president so he will do what they want,” said Richard Painter, a
former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush.
“This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of
money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.”Powerus
co-founder Brett Velicovich told The Associated Press that the company
is making sales pitches that include drone demonstrations in several
Gulf countries to show how its defensive drone interceptors could help
them ward off Iranian attacks.“Our team is doing many demos across the
Middle East right now for our interceptors,” Velicovich said in a text
exchange. “We have very incredible tech that can save lives.”He declined
to name the countries or give more details.The Trump brothers’ deal
with Powerus could give them sizable equity stakes.The US, along with
Israel, launched a bombing campaign on Iran on February 28 in a bid to
destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear
programs. Iran has responded with missile and drone strikes across the
region — the reason Powerus’s potential Gulf clients now need
protection.Powerus denied there were any conflicts when the Trump
brothers’ stake was first announced. Velicovich emphasized its
determination to help the US catch up with Chinese and Russian drone
makers and beat them.“We are at war, my friend, we are in an arms race
and America will lose if we don’t build fast,” said Velicovich, an Army
veteran who had come under fire from the same Russian drones now being
used by Iran. He added, “We should be thankful anyone is trying to
invest in American manufacturing now. That idea transcends politics.”The
president’s oldest sons have expanded their business interests beyond
hotels and golf courses since their father took office again. The
companies they’ve invested in or been named advisers for — with equity
stakes — run the gamut from cryptocurrency ventures to prediction
markets to federal contractors making rocket parts and rare earth
magnets.This latest Trump venture has its sights on $1.1 billion set
aside by the Pentagon to build up a US manufacturing base for armed
drones to fill a hole left when the Trump administration banned such
imports from China.The Trump Organization, where the two sons are
executives, didn’t respond to a request for comment, but has dismissed
claims of conflicts of interest in the past. The sons have said they
didn’t get credit for their restraint in expanding their businesses in
their father’s first term and so have decided not to hold back much this
time.Asked about potential Powerus conflicts of interest specifically,
Eric Trump sent AP a statement last month saying, “I am incredibly proud
to invest in companies I believe in. Drones are clearly the wave of the
future.”Founded by US Army Special Operations veterans about a year
ago, Powerus makes drones for commercial uses, from spreading fertilizer
to putting out forest fires. But it is bulking up fast to supply drones
for military uses.The company recently raised $60 million from
investors and hopes to tap additional financing by doing a “reverse
merger” with a Trump company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange that
owns a few golf courses in Florida. Such a merger allows a private
business to quickly go public by taking over a company that already has
publicly traded shares, shortening the process of filing paperwork and
meeting various requirements of a regular initial public offering.Times
of Israel staff contributed to this report.
US banks in Paris
ramp up security after cops thwart suspected Iran-linked
attack-Citigroup orders staff in Paris and Frankfurt to work remotely
‘as a precautionary measure’ after four people detained in connection
with explosive placed outside Bank of America By AFP and ToI Staff 2
April 2026, 4:58 pm
Citigroup has urged staff in Paris and
Frankfurt to work from home as US banks step up security, after one of
them was the target of a thwarted attack last week, thought to be linked
to an Iran-backed terror group.“The safety of our employees is our
number one priority, and we are taking the necessary measures to keep
our employees safe,” a Citigroup spokeswoman said Thursday. “Employees
in Paris/Frankfurt are working remotely, as a precautionary measure,”
she added.Police have also deployed surveillance outside the Paris
offices of US bank Goldman Sachs in the city’s 8th arrondissement, near
the Champs-Elysees, a police source said.The operation is part of
heightened police vigilance to protect US interests and Jewish community
sites in France over concerns about potential attacks linked to the war
in the Middle East.French authorities have charged four people — a
young adult and three minors — and put them in pre-trial detention after
an explosive device was placed outside a Bank of America branch in
Paris before dawn on Saturday.France’s National Counterterrorism
Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) said the incident could be linked to a
little-known terror group with possible links to Iran, though no firm
link has yet been established.The Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya
group, or Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, has claimed
responsibility for attacks targeting Jewish communities in the United
Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.Jewish institutions in Europe,
Canada and the US have been targeted at least 14 times since the US and
Israel launched a bombing campaign in Iran on February 28 in a bid to
destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear
programs.
Iran executes man accused of attacking military site on
Israel’s behalf during protests-Amir-Hossein Hatami is found guilty of
entering a restricted military facility in Tehran, damaging and
setting fire to the facility, and attempting to seize weapons and
ammunition By Agencies 2 April 2026, 3:09 pm
A man convicted of
participating in an attack on a classified military facility on behalf
of Israel and the United States during January’s protests in Iran was
executed on Thursday, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan
said.“Amir-Hossein Hatami, one of the enemy’s terrorist elements
involved in the [January protests] … was hanged at dawn today,” Mizan
said.It said he acted “against national security on behalf of the
Zionist regime and the United States,” and was found guilty of entering a
restricted military site in Tehran, damaging and setting fire to the
facility, and attempting to seize weapons and ammunition during the
protests — charges he admitted during interrogation, Mizan
reported.Iran’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal and upheld his
sentence. Iran frequently executes people accused of being spies without
providing evidence.Thursday’s execution was the latest related to the
protests, which broke out in Iran late December against the rising cost
of living before becoming nationwide anti-government demonstrations that
peaked on January 8 and 9.On February 18, Kouroush Keyvani was executed
after being accused of spying for the Mossad. His was the first
execution announced since the war with Israel and the United States
broke out on February 28.Amid the war, Iran has today executed an
individual linked to the deadly unrest in January, Amirhossein Hatami.
He was accused of “setting fire to a military site”. Advertisement He is
the ninth political prisoner to be executed since 28 February, while
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authorities executed three others convicted of killing police and
carrying out operations on behalf of the United States and Israel during
the protests.It raised concerns among rights groups such as Hengaw
that Tehran is intensifying executions against political detainees and
protesters amid mounting military and international pressure.Iranian
authorities said the protests began as peaceful demonstrations before
turning into “foreign-instigated riots” involving killings and
vandalism.Tehran has acknowledged that more than 3,000 people died
during the unrest, including members of the security forces and innocent
bystanders, and attributed the violence to “terrorist acts.”The
US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), however, said it
had recorded more than 7,000 killings, the vast majority of them
protesters, and said the toll could be far higher.The first deputy chief
of the judiciary, Hamzeh Khalili, said last month that cases linked to
January protests had been finalized and sentences were being
implemented.Hatami was among 11 men referred to by rights group Amnesty
International as being at imminent risk of execution and who had been
“subjected to torture and other ill-treatment in detention, before
being convicted in grossly unfair trials that relied on forced
confessions.”
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of
Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE
HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all
the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the
flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS
TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN
FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING
BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @
39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the
earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY)
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS)
and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U
WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS)
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.
Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2
before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like
chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before
there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the
Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek
righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of
the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon
shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon,
and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the
seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against
you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no
inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7
The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of
Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they
shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of
them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab
(JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my
people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I
live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become
like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles
and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall
plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11
The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods
of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the
lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy
Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like
the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of
beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e] shall lodge in her
capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the
threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the
exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and
there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild
beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No
free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into
Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a
-Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his
judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of
every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl
and hedgehog is uncertain
DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38
And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and
the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made
thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after
thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third
kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And
the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these,
shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,
forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to
another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of
these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never
be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known
to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from
all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his
nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of
the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn
that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was
more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22
Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of
the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the
ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and
another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words
against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,
and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his
hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17
First From Daniel Chapter 2
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES
Now From Daniel Chapter 7
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV
17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS.
THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23,
REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16
REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are
seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT,
ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS
DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he
cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must
continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF
NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10
WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which
have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour
with the beast.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10
WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
We
shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only
question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or
consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February
1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in
1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a
man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection
to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten
to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept
him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
DICK
MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t
look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.
REVELATION 16:1-2
1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
I KNOW THIS MARK WILL
BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK
SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE
VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW
LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE.
UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW
AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION
13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION
AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO
IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE
SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE),
OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX,
KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125
THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR
RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM
1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE;
FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 -
STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick;
(cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.;
Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According
to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of
their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to
indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even
some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their
gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα
τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in
Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left
there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by
him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and
approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on
Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian,
Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA
THE
CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS,
POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8,
DAN 7:23-24
WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME
NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of
Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE
HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all
the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the
flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS
TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN
FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING
BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @
39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the
earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY)
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS)
and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U
WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS)
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.
COUNCIL FOR EUROPE ON DEFENCE
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/document/download/6d6f889c-e58d-4caa-8f3b-8b93154fe206_en?filename=SAFE%20Regulation.pdf
TRUMP
IS FORCING THE EUROPEAN UNION INTO TAKING ITS LAST DAYS WORLD RULE.I
NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN THIS WAY. TRUMP AGAIN IS BEING LEAD TO
HELP FULFIL BIBLE PROPHECYS LAST AGE SETUP.
Analysis-Trump’s
ire at NATO leaves European partners bracing for potential US
exit-American president stopped short of condemning alliance in recent
speech, but tensions over potential Strait of Hormuz operations have
officials fearing gap no longer bridgeable-By Gram Slattery, Andrea
Shalal, Andrew Gray and John Irish Today, 9:54 am-APR 03,26
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS/PARIS
(Reuters) — The NATO alliance has in recent years survived existential
challenges – ranging from the war in Ukraine to multiple bouts of
pressure and insults from US President Donald Trump, who has questioned
its core mission and threatened to seize Greenland.But it is the
US-Israeli war with Iran, thousands of miles from Europe, that has
nearly broken the 76-year-old bloc and threatens to leave it in its
weakest state since its creation, say analysts and diplomats.Trump,
enraged that European countries have declined to send their navies to
open up the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping following the start of
the air war on February 28, has declared he is considering withdrawing
from the alliance.“Wouldn’t you if you were me?” Trump asked Reuters in a
Wednesday interview.In a speech on Wednesday night, Trump criticized US
allies but stopped short of condemning NATO, as many experts thought he
might.But combined with other barbs aimed at Europeans in recent weeks,
Trump’s comments have provoked unprecedented concern that the US will
not come to the aid of European allies should they be attacked, whether
or not Washington formally walks away.The result, say analysts and
diplomats, is that the alliance created in the Cold War, which has long
served as the basic fabric of European security, is fraying and the
mutual defense agreement at its core is no longer taken as a given.“This
is the worst place (NATO) has been in since it was founded,” said Max
Bergmann, a former State Department official who now leads the Europe,
Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington.“It’s really hard to think of
anything that even comes close.”That reality is sinking in for
Europeans, who have counted on NATO as a bulwark against an increasingly
assertive Russia.As recently as February, NATO Secretary-General Mark
Rutte had dismissed the idea of Europe defending itself without the US
as a “silly thought.” Now, many officials and diplomats consider it the
default expectation.“NATO remains necessary, but we must be capable of
thinking of NATO without the Americans,” said General Francois
Lecointre, who served as France’s armed forces chief from 2017 to
2021.“Whether it should even continue to be called NATO – North Atlantic
Treaty Organization – is a valid question.”White House spokeswoman Anna
Kelly said: “President Trump has made his disappointment with NATO and
other allies clear, and as the President emphasized, ‘the United States
will remember.’”A NATO representative did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.This time it’s different-NATO has been challenged
before, not least during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, when he
also considered withdrawing from the alliance.But while many European
officials until recently believed that Trump could be kept on board with
pomp and flattery, fewer now hold that belief, according to
conversations with dozens of former and current US and European
officials.Trump and his officials have expressed frustration over what
they see as NATO’s unwillingness to help the United States in a time of
need, including by not directly assisting with the Strait of Hormuz and
by restricting US use of some airfields and airspace. US officials have
declared that NATO cannot be a “one-way street.”European officials
counter that they have not received US requests for specific assets for a
mission to open the strait and complain that Washington has been
inconsistent about whether such a mission would operate during or after
the war.“It’s a terrible situation for NATO to be in,” said Jamie Shea, a
former senior NATO official who is now a senior fellow at the Friends
of Europe think tank.“It is a blow to the allies who, since Trump
returned to the White House, have worked hard to show that they are
willing and able to take more responsibility (for their own
defense).”Trump’s latest comments follow other signs of an increasingly
unsteady alliance.Those include his stepped-up threats in January to
wrest Greenland away from Denmark and recent moves by the US that
Europeans see as particularly accommodating toward Russia, which NATO
defines as its principal security threat.The administration has remained
essentially mum amid reports that Moscow has provided targeting data
for Iran to attack US assets in the Middle East and has lifted sanctions
on Russian oil in a bid to ease global energy prices that have spiked
during the war.At a meeting of G7 foreign ministers near Paris last
week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kaja Kallas, the foreign
policy chief of the European Union, had a tense exchange, according to
five people familiar with the matter, underlining the increasingly
fraught transatlantic relationship.Kallas asked when US patience with
Russian President Vladimir Putin would run out over Ukraine peace
negotiations, prompting Rubio to respond with irritation that the US was
trying to end the war while also providing support to Ukraine, but the
EU was welcome to mediate if it wanted to.Legally, Trump may lack the
authority to withdraw from NATO. Under a law passed in 2023, a US
president cannot exit the alliance without the consent of two-thirds of
the US Senate, a nearly impossible threshold.But analysts say that, as
commander-in-chief, Trump can decide whether the US military will defend
NATO members. Declining to do so could imperil the alliance without a
formal withdrawal.To be sure, not everyone sees the current crisis as
existential. One French diplomat described the president’s rhetoric as a
passing temper tantrum.Trump has changed his position on NATO before.In
2024, he said on the campaign trail that he would encourage Putin to
attack NATO members that do not pay their fair share on defense. By the
last annual NATO summit, in June 2025, the alliance was in his good
graces, with Trump delivering a speech effusively praising European
leaders as people who “love their countries.”Next week, Rutte, the NATO
secretary-general, who has a strong relationship with Trump, is set to
visit Washington in an effort to change Trump’s view once again.Analysts
say European nations have good reason to keep the US engaged in NATO
despite doubts over whether Trump would come to their defense. Among
other reasons, the US military provides a range of capabilities NATO
can’t easily replace, such as satellite intelligence.Even if Trump and
the Europeans find a way to stay together in NATO, diplomats, analysts
and officials say, the transatlantic alliance that has been central to
the global order since World War Two may never be the same.“I do think
we’re turning the page of 80 years of working together,” said Julianne
Smith, the US ambassador to NATO under Democratic president Joe Biden.“I
don’t think it means the end of the transatlantic relationship, but
we’re on the cusp of something that’s going to have a different look and
feel to it.”
'This parasite is sort of a genius - it's only one
cell'-Groundbreaking Israeli study finds malarial parasites hack RNA to
deceive immune system-Paving way for new therapies, researchers decode
how parasites that spread one of the world’s deadliest diseases use
trickery to trigger confusion inside cells and evade defenses By Diana
Bletter-Today, 8:46 am-APR 3,26
Israeli researchers say they have
discovered how malaria parasites trick their way into surviving in the
human body, opening up hopes for new therapies that can battle the
deadly disease.Spread by mosquitoes, malaria is estimated to affect
1,000 children a day and kill 500,000 per year, largely in South America
and sub-Saharan Africa.In ground-breaking research published in the
journal Cell Reports earlier this year, the team from the Weizmann
Institute of Science in Rehovot found that malaria parasites send
packages of their own messenger RNA to hack into a cell’s nucleus and
hijack its splicing activity to shut down any immune response before it
gets started.The key to the study, which was among several projects set
back by an Iranian missile attack in June that destroyed several labs
connected to the Biomolecular Sciences Department, was the
identification of the parasitic RNA inside the cell’s inner sanctum,
where it had no business being.“Nobody detected this low level of the
parasite’s messenger RNA (mRNA) in the nucleus of immune cells using a
microscope before,” Prof. Neta Regev-Rudzki, one of the lead
researchers, told The Times of Israel. “It was completely new.”The
findings point to a potential new target for antimalarial drugs, said
Regev-Rudzki, specifically therapies designed to prevent malarial RNAs
from taking over the host’s splicing system.Amy Buck, a University of
Edinburgh professor of RNA & Infection Biology, said the research
could have applications beyond malaria as well. She was not involved in
the study.“It is exciting not only because it offers new insights into
how malaria can evade host immunity,” Buck said, adding that it “expands
the context for how and where imported RNAs can function, with
potential relevance to many other human diseases.”Mission against
malaria-Malaria is caused by parasites carried by female mosquitoes that
pick up the parasite by biting someone who already has the
disease.Worldwide, millions of people are infected with malaria each
year. Most cases are in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. More than
500,000 people die each year from the disease, though antimalarial drugs
can treat the malady, especially if caught before complications begin.
However, those drugs lose their efficacy as the parasites build
resistance.“We have to somehow find the way to block this disease and
all this suffering,” Regev-Rudzki said, noting that there is no
effective vaccine yet against malaria parasites. “For me, I feel like
it’s a mission.”Early symptoms include cycles of chills and then fever.
Untreated malaria causes rapid destruction of red blood cells and then
multi-organ failure, and cerebral damage. The parasite could lead to
fatal complications, including respiratory failure, within a very short
time.More than a decade ago, Regev-Rudzki discovered that the malaria
parasite Plasmodium falciparum invaded human red blood cells while
sending out vesicles — tiny membrane-bound sacs filled with RNA — to
communicate with fellow parasites inside other red blood cells.“The
research broke the dogma that the parasites competed with each other,”
she said. “We discovered that they don’t necessarily compete. In some
stages, they actually coordinate actions and work together as a
team.”“This parasite is sort of a genius, because it’s only one cell,”
she said.The new study, led by Dr. Paula Abou Karam, set out to
determine what other tools the parasites use to survive in the human
body. Also contributing to the research were scientists from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and
Tel Aviv University.“We discovered that the parasites use these vesicles
not just to talk among themselves but also to manipulate the human
immune cells by delivering misleading messages,” Regev-Rudzki said.The
researcher said that her team was surprised to find that the RNA
molecules had made their way into the highly protected nucleus of the
immune cells.“The nucleus is very protected,” she explained. “It’s like
the brain of the cell, so there are lots of gatekeepers. It was hard to
believe that the parasitic RNAs were inside the human immune nucleus. We
had to be convinced.”Hunting for RNA-At first, the task seemed nearly
impossible because the parasitic RNA levels were so low, making them
difficult to detect.Abou Karam, then a PhD student, refused to give up
and continued to look for markers of the parasitic mRNA within a type of
immune cell called a monocyte.“Paula had to keep changing different
microscopy methods,” Regev-Rudzki said. “She insisted and kept trying
for more than a year and a half until she could detect the RNA
molecules.”Abou Karam told The Times of Israel that she met the “very
challenging” task of detecting the mRNA by designing a fluorescent
probe, like a highlighter for a microscope, which was then used with
fluorescent dye.“Each time a single malaria mRNA molecule successfully
crossed into the nucleus, it made a red dot,” she said. “Then we had to
take images with a special focal microscope and do the analysis.”The
scientists still did not understand how the foreign RNAs entered human
cells, so they joined forces with Dr. Zeev Melamed of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, a leading expert in RNA and splicing.With
Melamed’s help, the team discovered that once the parasite’s mRNA
reached the nucleus, it latched onto two specific human proteins, ACIN1
and PNN.These proteins are meant to splice messages into instructions
that activate the immune system and fight off infections. But the
parasites’ mRNA hijacks the immune system’s communication network and
turns those spliced messages into gibberish.The confusion does
eventually trigger a defensive response, the researchers found, but it
sends immune cells to the monocytes rather than to the red blood cells
where the parasites were multiplying all along.Abou Karam said that soon
after the researchers completed the study, they submitted the
manuscript for publication and had plans for revisions involving other
experiments. Then a devastating Iranian ballistic missile struck the
Weizmann Institute last June.While the team’s lab was left intact,
equipment from other labs that it had been using was destroyed.“A lot of
the facilities at the institute were destroyed, and we couldn’t do our
research in the same way anymore,” she said.Abou Karam is no stranger to
conflict and upheaval. Born in Lebanon, her father was a member of the
Israel-backed South Lebanon Army, which fought against Hezbollah and
other terror groups before the IDF’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000.
Her family was one of dozens to flee to Israel, where they were granted
residency, following the pullout. She was 8 at the time.“It was quite
rough, but slowly we had to adjust,” Abou Karam recalled.The same
adaptiveness was put to work after the missile attack.“We had to think
on our feet and get really creative,” she said.Regev-Rudzki said the
team felt it had to press forward, to ensure that those who targeted the
institute did not succeed in thwarting potentially life-saving
science.“All we knew was that we had to continue, because otherwise,
they won,” she said. “We have to stick to the science. We keep saying
that in science, there are no boundaries. Science is a bridge, and we
have to keep working in our lab and our research, and we won’t let them
stop us.
Dust storm turns Israel’s skies gray on Passover, drives
up pollution-Environmental Protection Ministry warns sensitive
populations to reduce physical activity-By Michael Horovitz-and Reuters 2
April 2026, 4:42 pm
A cloud of dust carried by strong winds from
North Africa covered Israel on Thursday, turning the skies gray on the
first day of the Passover festival and increasing air
pollution.Pollution levels were set to drop only by evening, the
Environmental Protection Ministry said.The ministry said it “recommends
that sensitive populations, including heart patients, lung patients, the
elderly, children and pregnant women avoid strenuous physical activity
outdoors.“The general population is advised to reduce strenuous physical
activity outdoors,” it added.The Israel Meteorological Service,
meanwhile, said there was a chance of localized flooding in southern
Israel, including the Judean Desert, Dead Sea, and northern Arava
areas.In February, a Hebrew University expert warned that dust storms
are likely to become more common and start earlier in the year as a
result of climate change.Wednesday saw dramatic scenes in the
Mediterranean island of Crete, with skies turning an eerie orange as
winds of up to force 9 on the Beaufort scale carried dust from North
Africa, disrupting flights.In Greece on Thursday, authorities recovered
the body of a man in the seaside holiday town of Nea Makri, 35
kilometers (22 miles) northeast of Athens, a fire brigade official told
Reuters, as Erminio lashed the country.The man was believed to have been
carried away by a torrent and trapped under a car as he attempted to
cross a flooded street, local media reported.The fire brigade said it
has received hundreds of calls to rescue people trapped in floodwater
and help clear roads of fallen trees as the storm swept through Athens
and several islands in the Aegean Sea.Early on Thursday, crews were
still removing debris, pumping water from flooded buildings, and
repairing damaged infrastructure east of the capital. Authorities also
banned some ferries from sailing from the port of Piraeus near Athens to
the Greek islands.Greece, which sits at Europe’s southernmost tip, has
suffered destructive floods and wildfires in recent years, which
analysts attribute to a rapidly warming climate.
'This opens up
many questions about local customs'Marble bowl buried 1,300 years ago in
Golan church sheds light on ancient baptisms-Found in a cathedral
destroyed by an earthquake in 749, a unique liturgical object suggests
the ceremony there featured three moments of anointment, a ritual never
documented before-By Rossella Tercatin-Today, 11:05 am-APR 3,26
Some
1,300 years ago, in 749 CE, an earthquake struck the Middle East,
causing widespread destruction.The earthquake sealed the fate of the
ancient city of Hippos, once a thriving Christian center east of the Sea
of Galilee in the southern Golan. There, among other structures, a
cathedral hall featuring a baptismal font collapsed in the city’s south,
burying its liturgical implements for over a millennium.The room and
its rare contents were recently rediscovered by a team of archaeologists
from the University of Haifa, as revealed in a new study published in
the Palestine Exploration Quarterly last month.According to lead author
Michael Eisenberg, co-director of excavation at Hippos, one of the
artifacts, a marble item with three round indentations, has no known
parallel and could offer new insights into unique baptismal practices in
the ancient Byzantine city.“Hippos was the main Christian city on that
side of the Sea of Galilee, an area very connected to the ministry of
Jesus in the region,” Eisenberg told The Times of Israel over the
telephone. “We have recorded seven churches in Hippos. The largest of
these churches, the cathedral, was also the seat of a bishop.”All the
churches were built between the fifth and the early sixth centuries
CE.Most of the cathedral was excavated at the beginning of the 1950s,
decades before Eisenberg and his team began work at the site in 2000.The
early archaeologists had already unearthed a first hall with a
baptismal font — a large, round structure where an adult could fully
immerse, fed by a conduit bringing fresh water from a nearby source.“The
bishop and the cathedral were the only ones performing baptisms, not
only in Hippos but in the whole region,” Eisenberg said, noting that no
other church in Hippos included a baptistery. “They had a
monopoly.”“This baptistery, or photisterion, which in Greek means ‘hall
of light,’ as it was referred to at the time, is the largest ever
discovered in Israel,” he added.The southern part of the church was not
excavated until 2023. Eisenberg and his fellow archaeologists opened a
small excavation area since the site’s paved road runs very close to the
building. They were amazed by what they encountered.“We found another
baptismal font, and next to it, a whole archeological treasure of
liturgical items exactly as they fell during the 749 earthquake.”The
newly exposed hall features the same type of flooring — red limestone
and white marble tiles arranged in a geometric pattern — as other parts
of the cathedral, suggesting that, like the rest of the church, it was
restored during renovations carried out in 590 CE and documented by an
inscription elsewhere in the building. (No inscription was discovered in
the southern photisterion.)The baptismal font in the southern hall is
much smaller than the structure in the northern one and does not offer
steps to enter it. This detail suggests that the baptistery discovered
in the 1950s was used to baptize adults, while the other one was used
for babies, who could be briefly immersed or held over it with water
poured on them, Eisenberg said.The archaeologists found several
liturgical objects next to the font in the southern hall, including a
large bronze candelabrum and a reliquary, or a box for relics of
venerated saints.“Some of them are rather unique, though not all of
them are necessarily so important from the research perspective,”
Eisenberg said.The object that, more than anything, captured the
researchers’ attention was the marble artifact featuring three bowls.“We
found it in the perfect position, stuck between the baptismal font and
the other liturgical implements,” Eisenberg said. “It was not there by
chance.”“We’ve consulted with colleagues who specialized in baptismal
rites in early Christianity, and they agree that the only logical
explanation for the use of this marble block next to the baptismal font
is that it was part of the liturgical ceremonies,” he added.According to
the archaeologist, the artifact’s shape strongly suggests that it was
used to contain liquids. Eisenberg believes the utensil most likely held
different types of oil employed during the ceremony to baptize
babies.“We are familiar with similar implements with one bowl or two
bowls, but this could be the first one with three bowls,” he said. “No
parallel has ever been found.”The archaeologist emphasized that at the
time Christianity was still developing, and ceremonies were not
necessarily held according to a fixed protocol everywhere.“We don’t have
too many sources discussing early Christian [rituals] in different
regions,” Eisenberg explained. “We rely on later sources, and some of
them hint at the use of different oils [during baptism], not only the
olive oil, but other kinds of oils. However, no source speaks directly
about three oils being used [in the ceremony].”“This opens up many
questions about local or regional customs for ceremonies and how much we
do not know about them,” he said.According to Robin Jensen, professor
emeritus at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and an
expert on Christianity in antiquity and Christian architecture, there is
another possible way of interpreting the object.She suggested that the
marble block could have served as an offering table.“I have seen objects
like that in cemeteries that were meant to hold food offerings for the
dead,” said Jensen, who was not involved in the study. “I think one
might find something of the sort in an early church — a receptacle for
offerings.”Jensen said that if the interpretation offered by Eisenberg
and his co-author Arleta Kowalewska is right and the object was indeed
used for anointing oils, it would be unique.“We don’t have any textual
evidence for a triple anointing, although later Christian tradition
does, in fact, have three types of oils — oil for anointing the sick,
oil of the catechumens, and oil for chrismation,” Jensen said.“Ancient
baptismal rituals, both East and West, regularly have two anointings;
one preliminary anointing and post-baptismal chrismation… but I don’t
know of any triple anointings,” she added.The professor also said that
she holds Eisenberg and Kowalewska in high regard.“I regard them as very
reliable and the overall study of this new photesterion at Hippos very
important; their work is careful, and their discovery is significant,”
she said.Saving the relics-The archaeologists also found a large marble
reliquary.“It was sealed, and we were very eager to find out what it
contained, but when we opened it, still in the field, it was empty,”
Eisenberg said.The southern hall could have served both as a baptistery
and a martyrium, or a room devoted to the cult of martyrs.“There was no
contradiction between the two functions,” Eisenberg said.According to
inscriptions found elsewhere in the church, the cathedral was dedicated
to Cosmas and Damianus, two third-century brothers and physicians who
embraced Christianity and were killed by the Roman authorities, and
whose cult was very popular in Syria, Palestine (as the Roman province
was known) and Arabia.The reliquary might have contained their bones or
other objects connected to their life.Eisenberg explained that the
city’s demise began long before the earthquake, and that the relics
might have been removed by Christians who left the city before it was
finally destroyed and abandoned.“Hippos’ decline started in the late
sixth century [CE] and dramatically accelerated after the Muslim
conquest in 636, not because of the invasion itself, but because [the
new rulers] moved the regional capital to Tiberias,” the scholar noted.
“All the churches at Hippos continued to function, but most of them
progressively closed some of their spaces, starting to use them for
agricultural purposes instead. It seems that there were not enough
residents there.”The cathedral continued to function until it was
destroyed by the earthquake.“When Christian believers left a place, holy
relics were the first thing they brought with them,” Eisenberg said.
