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12-4-17, Turkey's Erdogan threatens to cut ties with Israel over U.S ...www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/turkey/1.826883 12-4-17, U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. | President Trump Misses Deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem ... Dec 04, 2017 · For their part, the Muslims in Israel aka 'Palestinians' say East Jerusalem must be the capital of a future independent state of theirs... |
Amid mounting anxiety over President Trump’s intentions, the US president was facing a growing chorus of warnings over potential repercussions over a unilateral US decision regarding Jerusalem’s status.
- The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, described the status of Jerusalem as a “red line” for Muslims that could lead to a severing of relations with Israel, while the European Union warned of possible “serious repercussions”.
- Saudi Arabia – which has been enjoying a discreet warming of relations with Israel – cautioned against taking any step that would “obstruct the ongoing efforts to revive the peace process”.
However, the Prime Minister of Jerusalem is ecstatic!
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv has been one of Trump's longtime campaign promises. It is a position Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed, saying the move would not endanger the peace negotiations. In May he said: "It will correct a historic injustice by advancing the [peace process] and shattering a Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem isn't Israel's capital."
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists he told the US President Trump to move embassy to Jerusalem
May 15, 2017 ... Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu is in favor of the US embassy being moved to Israel's capital, Jerusalem. More here
In 1859, Christian Henry Dunant
Founded Red Cross
No Wonder the Muslims Are Offended
- They are anti-Christ!
Volunteers and members have been pushing back against the decision to remove the crosses from buildings, however. TruNews shared one translation from an aid worker who reportedly said: "Let things be as they are. We said Christmas holidays, now winter holidays. The Christmas market in Brussels has become the Winter Pleasures."
"For a certain part of the population — because of the Muslims — the crosses were removed in the Red Cross houses and, more particularly, in that of Verviers," the aid worker added. Rouffart has argued that the pushback is a "tempest in a teacup," however, in an attempt to dismiss concerns.
The Decline of Christianity across Western Europe continues to be widely reported, though some incidents, such as a French court decision in October to remove a giant cross atop a statue of Pope Saint John Paul II, have sparked protests and backlash.
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Indonesian Muslims Pressure Red Cross to Remove Cross From ...www.christianheadlines.com/blog/indonesia...
The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia, or PMI, in Indonesian) says it will never change its traditional logo that has made it famous around the world, despite criticism from an Islamist party, AsiaNews reports.
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Origin of the Christian Organization
THE RED CROSS
June 24, 1859, Battle of Solferino, Italy
Like so many institutions, organizations and benevolent agencies, the Red Cross had its origin in the Christian Faith. The Christian faith of banker and businessman, Henry Dunant, was the impetus behind the compassion that has been extended to millions around the world. Beginning in Geneva Switzerland, Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910), was born to a devout Christian Calvinistic Christian family. More here
the CROSS as the emblem:
- 1 Corinthians 1:18 "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- Hebrews 12:2 "Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
- Colossians 2:14 "By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross."
- Luke 14:27 "Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple."
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WAR ON CHRISTMAS IS
A WAR ON JESUS CHRIST
Stores, schools and communities across America continue to find new and intolerant reasons to remove any religious references to Christmas, stripping it of any holy or historical significance. Christian songs, prayers and other spiritually vital connections to the Lord Jesus Christ are deleted or diminished.
Two flagrant examples:
In Ramsey County, Minn., the courthouse banned red poinsettias because someone deemed them a “Christian symbol.”
A Veteran’s Administration hospital in Augusta, Ga., adopted a policy banning religious Christmas songs in public areas.
But none of this should surprise us.
That’s because at its root and core, the war on Christmas isn’t really about Christmas at all—it’s about the Son of God. The war on Christmas is a war on Christ and His followers. It’s the hatred of our culture for the exclusive claims that Christ made: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
When Christ stepped out of eternity and into a cold animal stall in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, the angels announced His birth with these stunning words to shepherds huddled in the Judean darkness: “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10-11).
Jesus, the second Person of the Trinity, became as fully man as He was fully God. He took on human flesh for one reason—to die for our sins, to rescue us from eternal separation and unending punishment. He fulfilled that mission three decades later when He hung on a cross in Jerusalem, was buried, rose again and ascended into Heaven.
Believers in Christ call Jesus’ birth His first Advent, or His first Coming. It was a time for miracles and healings, but also a time for suffering at the hands of sinners. He was betrayed, scorned, beaten and crucified.
When Christ returns—His second Advent or Coming—it will be an entirely different experience. He will come with undiminished power and glory, as a conquering King who will cast Satan and unbelievers into an eternal lake of fire. His kingdom will be finally consummated with the new heavens and the new earth.
Scripture calls the time between those two Advents the last days. We don’t have to wait for them. Everyone born from the resurrection of Christ until His triumphant return has lived in them.
The Apostle Peter, in his first sermon at Pentecost, referred to the Holy Spirit’s outpouring with the words of the prophet Joel: “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17).
The writer of Hebrews began his letter with a magnificent description of Jesus Christ, saying that God “has in these last days spoken to us by His Son” (Hebrews 1:2).
And the Apostle Paul told his protégé Timothy that “in the last days perilous times will come” (2 Timothy 3:1). He goes on to list nearly 20 chillingly familiar character traits that describe those days, such as pride, brutality, treachery and heartlessness.
We should not be taken aback, then, when a day that should be devoted to meditating upon the marvelous, virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ is instead treated in a scandalously secular way that denies His deity and saving work.
The Name of Christ is an offense to the unbelieving world. The mention of His birth, or life, or death and resurrection, is an insult.
The world, the flesh and the devil all hate the mere mention of His glorious Name. They are mortal enemies of the Savior.
The world the Bible speaks of is the world system that is set against the rule and reign of Christ. It is enthralled with power and greed, and it wants no part of the Messiah’s absolute authority.
The flesh refers to the rebellious, sinful soul of man that is corrupted with deceitful desires and refuses to acknowledge God. It is willful, prideful disobedience that reacts with instinctive disdain for the Savior.
The devil animates it all. Knowing that his time to roam on earth is short and that he will one day be cast into the lake of fire, he opposes Christ at every turn. He and his demons will help gather all the nations into a great last-ditch rebellion against the King of kings before he is defeated.
Until then, however, we should expect stiff, relentless opposition to the Gospel message from our culture. The persecution that many believers already experience in many countries may still be far into the future for us, but don’t expect that it will not intensify and heighten.
However, since we know that Christ has already made every provision for sinners like us, we can steadily and obediently be about the Father’s work of letting our light shine before men. We can be about the business of living uprightly in an evil age, testifying of Christ’s power to deliver us from sin, Satan and the world.
The war on Christmas—the war on Christ—is doomed to fail. Christ came the first time to rescue us from our sin; He is coming a second time to establish His kingdom forever under His righteous reign.
Every believer from every age who has repented and trusted in Him for the forgiveness of sin will be with Him. The Babe at Bethlehem will be the conquering King.
So this Christmas, don’t worry if you see the opposition building. Praise Him that He came to earth 2,000 years ago on a rescue mission, that He has rescued you.
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