June 24, 2024 – Watchman River Tom Getting ready for departure

Scriptures:

Ephesians 2: 4-5 “But God who is rich in mercy because of His great love which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved.”

Psalm 51:1-2.. blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and please me from my sin.

Micah 7: 18.. He delights in mercy. Tom says we serve a God who delights in not giving is what we deserve. 

News:

Last 48 hours. Rumors of nuclear war. Cling to Jesus, He gives peace that surpasses understanding. 

All Israel News: after over 5,000 projectiles fired at Israel over the last 8 months, full out war with Hezbollah seems inevitable. 

Times of Israel: Hezbollah is storing Iranian weapons at Beirut’s civil airport. Weapons such as ballistic missiles, unguided artillery rockets, and large guided anti tank guided missiles. Highly explosive and toxic white powder known as RDX. Says the airport could become a military target in event of war between Hezbollah and Israel. 

Bubba News: Lebanon could be the kick off to start some major prophetic wars. Iran army ground force commander said any Israel attack against Lebanon will be met with violent reaction. Senior Israeli officials said in the event of full scale war with Hezbollah Israel may be forced to use weapons they have never used before to launch missiles and rockets toward cities in Israel.

US said it likely won’t be able to help Israel in a broader war in Hezbollah. 

Syria said they will join Hezbollah in a full scale war with Israel. This could lead to destruction of Damascus. 

Tom says living Bible prophecy right before our eyes as we await Jesus to come get us. 

Lebanon report said Beirut is a red line and any bombing of it will be hit with double response from Hezbollah that Israel may not tolerate and will start a war.

Tom says the whole world is talking about this war about to start. It could start today.

Israel Today: Israel officials think Hezbollah may launch a major attack before IDF has a chance to invade S. Lebanon. Either way the situation is about to explode. 

Netanyahu said there has been a dramatic reduction of ammo from US. At a cabinet meeting on Saturday he said for weeks they have been asking US to speed up deliveries but it has not. A charge of slow rolling the supply of critical ammo to Israel, a charge backed by many members of Congress.

Israel Today: a comment from chairman of US military joint chief of staff Charles Brown said it is not the US and Israel with all their advanced weapons that have established deterrence, it is Iran and its proxies that have deterred the mighty West.

Amir: Said Hezbollah fired anti tank missile at a building in N. Israel with casualties. iDF attacked targets in S. Lebanon after remarks from Charles Brown. Brown  said US won’t be able to assist Israel in the war and Iran would likely help Hezbollah. Amir said Biden is making sure Israel won’t win in Lebanon.

Amir said the panic level is skyrocketing. Iran’s general threatens Israel with harsh response if Lebanon is invaded. 

Saturday the leader of Hezbollah published a video with Hebrew and English subtitles and said Hezbollah organization will fight without restraints, rules or limits if war breaks out.

Times of Israel: IDF soldier seriously hurt as Hezbollah swarms the north with attack drones from Iraq. 

Israel comments it could use weapons never deployed before in all out war with Hezbollah. Israel warned if Hezbollah does not back down soon it will have no choice but to take military action in Lebanon.

Times of Israel: EU member warns war in the Middle East is on the brink of expanding.

J. Post: Netanyahu says intense Rafah fighting is almost over and Hezbollah battle is next.

President of Serbia gives terrifying prediction of when WW3 could break out and kill over 15 billion people. He warned outbreak of war between the West and Russia is only months away. Warns the tensions between Russia and the West will spill out in all out war within 3- 4 months. It came after Putin gave warning he is nearing the point of no return. 

Times of Israel: Israel is on the brink of going into S. Lebanon and fight Hezbollah. Hezbollah is much stronger than Hamas. 

Tom shares his thoughts. When he reads 1 Thessalonians 5: 2-6 the “day of the Lord” comes as a thief in the night and when they say, peace and safety, sudden destruction comes upon them like labor pains or a pregnant woman and they shall not escape. Escape, the rapture. Believers are not in darkness. The day will not overtake as a thief but are sons of the light. Let us not sleep as most do but watch and be sober. Tom wonders if there could be a last minute deal coming in the next week or two. Sees how the US and others are telling Israel not to go in, even the ones in Israel.  Could they say, peace and safety? It could be the rapture is this soon.

Huge protests, about 150,000 people in Tel Aviv demand overthrow of Netanyahu government. They want a deal with Hamas. Most in Israel support Netanyahu though. 

Russia blames US for deadly Crimea beach strike. Says deliberate strike against civilians in Russia occupied city. 6 people killed, including 2 children. Russia defense force attempted to intercept long range US made missiles. Blames America and is threatening. 

Insider Paper: Kremlin warned America of consequences. Said US missile killed 4 people on Crimea beach.

Terror attack in Russia kill 20 in attacks on synagogs and churches. Killed police officers and a priest of a church. Blamed Islamic violence as 3 months ago when Islamic fighters killed over 140 at the Moscow concert hall. Which was the deadliest terror attack in almost 20 years. 

Insider Paper: firefighters found 20 bodies from fire at a lithium battery factory at S. Korea.

Fire at one of Russia’s main defense electronics producer and research center.

Weather:

Record flooding in NW Iowa. A train bridge collapses into the river due to flooding there. Evacuations and damages to 2,000 properties. Pray.

6.0 earthquake near coast of Venezuela. 

Strange gray hail that looks like lava during a severe thunderstorm in Nebraska.

Past 48 hour earthquakes, 62 over 4.0, 10 over 5.0 and 2 over 6.0. 

Massachusetts unanimously passes a bill that would legalize the sale of babies by pregnant mothers. Tom is speechless. 

Plane news:

Boeing 7474 has cabin system malfunctions on Korean flight headed to Taiwan. Passengers suffer nose bleeds and ear pain. 

Gospel:

Serious times. Need to be saved. To receive what Jesus did to save us.

Jesus came from heaven to live perfect, fulfilled the law perfect. To give His life, to shed His blood, required sacrifice to remove all sins. For those who believe and receive by faith alone.

Warns if reject, don’t believe in Him, sins not forgiven and will not go to heaven but to hell. 

Believe He died, was buried, and rose the third day and will be saved. Will receive the Holy Spirit, born again and rapture ready. Ready to go to heaven. 

Be saved today.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURES: 

Ephesians 2:4-5 KJV

[4] But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, [5] even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

Psalm 51:1-2 KJV

[1] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. [2] Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

2 Chronicles 30:9 KJV

[9] For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

Micah 7:18 KJV

[18] Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 

Isaiah 17:1-14 KJV

[1] The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. [2] The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. [3] The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. [4] And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. [5] And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. [6] Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. [7] At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. [8] And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. [9] In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. [10] Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: [11] in the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. [12] Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! [13] The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. [14] And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Jeremiah 49:23-27 KJV

[23] Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; 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 in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. 

1 Thessalonians 5:2-6 KJV

[2] For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. [3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.