NOTES: Tom suggests have some hot chocolate and toast with peanut butter an hang out with an old friend and a fellow servant of the Lord. Let’s get busy.

Reads Psalms 118: 22-24 and 27:1 about the Lord’s goodness to us. 

News: Insider Paper: a deal may be announced soon between Israel and Hamas for freeing dozens of hostages of Israelis and foreign citizens  held in Gaza in exchange for 4 or 5 day pause in fighting. They say the hostages released will be women and children exchanged  for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. 

Israel Today also says they demand Israel not fly reconnaissance flights over Gaza during that time. Tom comments when they do that it looses track of what Hamas is doing. Hamas also said yesterday they aren’t sure where all the hostages are. 

We don’t know what will happen. Things could escalate and fronts open during the pause. We need the  hostages freed. 

Tom says he believes this is the war that leads to the rapture. All the things are in place. 

Times of Israel: IDF base in N. Israel has received heavy damage from Hezbollah. Israel Today says Israel social media is calling for a far more serious military response.

Hezbollah fired more than 1,000 motors, missiles and drones at Israel since October 8. On Monday Israel struck first to prevent terror cells from approaching to carry out attacks. 

Most Important News says Iranians seem to believe the war in the Middle East is about to get going and much more violent. 

Rumors are that it is about to go to the next level. The former commander of Iran’s revolutionary guard is publicly telling us that in the coming days will see additional fronts join. 

Amir shows a video that BBC admits Israel was right all along. That Hamas terror tunnels are under the hospital and that the hospital was used for keeping hostages. Says even BBC news can no longer lie in the face of evidence. Tom says they arrested some 200 Hamas dudes in that hospital. In a video some said the so called doctors and nurses were really Hamas in uniform.

Brother Keegan said what we have witnessed since October 7, for the last 1 1/2 months is just the trailer. Now with Hamas almost decimated, the movie is about to begin with the main actor Iran and Hezbollah about to take center stage. The rest of the cast, Houthis, Islamic Jihad will all confederate to be the explosion of the fulfillment in multi front Psalm 83 war and Isaiah 17, the destruction of Damascus. The curtain raises with the rapture. 

Tom says he agrees. Reads Psalm 83: 17 and says where it says, they perish forever, has not happened yet. 

Israel radar: 100,000 Israeli soldiers deployed on Lebanon border in case war erupts. 

Israel fighter jets in the sky above Beirut. 

Insider Paper: N. Korea tells Japan satellite launch will be as soon as Wednesday to put a military eye in the sky. Says it is likely they received help from Russia in exchange for weapon transfers. N. Korea was warned it would not be following with UN resolutions. Tom says Kim doesn’t listen. S. Korea says they already did it.

Severe flooding in Dominican Republic they say was the worst ever. 

The last 24 hours, 36 earthquakes  4.0 and above and 7, 5.0 and above.

Canada now euthanizes average 36 citizens a day by the government. Now makes up 41% of the deaths nationwide. In 2021 it was 3%. Reports say since 2016 it has claimed the lives of nearly 45,000 Canadians. 

Clown World: Kellog fruit loops in Canada are giving kids free diversity, equity and inclusion digital library with cereal purchases. Tom says the last days see such evil and wickedness, lies and deception. Jesus is the only truth, all we need. 

Comments: Tom says the rapture is when God shows His wrath to the world. Believers that have the Holy Spirit in us, it would be like showing His wrath to Himself if we were here. Jesus went on the cross one time. Some, even pastors say why should we be spared from what is going on. Because it is God’s wrath, not mans. We have tribulation that is because of man’s doing.

Says peace is not the absence of troubles but the presence of God. 

Says when we know what God’s Word says we recognize when something doesn’t sound right. It is true Jesus is coming back.

Tom says the verses are all over the Bible. Like a puzzle, need to look for it, is very clear. 

Says grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone

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Gospel: 

Tom says that is the Gospel. 

“Religion” makes everything so difficult. They try to climb their way up to God but God reaches down. When Jesus died an earthquake happened and the Temple veil tore from the top to the bottom. God reaching down. Rescues us with His blood. 

Purchased the whole field to get the treasure, us. Ones who believe Jesus died on the cross to take away all sins. Warns if reject, think maybe they are good enough. No, can never sin once. Because God is perfect. Need Jesus. 

Say yes to Jesus and ask forgiveness. Be born again, and saved, sealed with the Holy Spirit. 

1 Corinthians 15: 3-4 is the Good News. Jesus died, buried and rose again.

Ephesians 1: 7 Through His blood, forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. 

Ephesians 2: 8-9 By grace, the gift of God.

Today’s Scriptures:

Psalm 118:22–24 KJV

[22] The stone which the builders refused Is become the head stone of the corner. [23] This is the LORD’s doing; It is marvellous in our eyes. [24] This is the day which the LORD hath made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Timestamp: 1:06

Psalm 27:1 KJV

[1] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Timestamp: 1:36

Psalm 83:1–18 KJV

[1] Keep not thou silence, O God: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. [2] For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. [3] They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, And consulted against thy hidden ones. [4] They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. [5] For they have consulted together with one consent: They are confederate against thee: [6] The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; Of Moab, and the Hagarenes; [7] Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; The Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; [8] Assur also is joined with them: They have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. [9] Do unto them as unto the Midianites; As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: [10] Which perished at Endor: They became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: [12] Who said, Let us take to ourselves The houses of God in possession. [13] O my God, make them like a wheel; As the stubble before the wind. [14] As the fire burneth a wood, And as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; [15] So persecute them with thy tempest, And make them afraid with thy storm. [16] Fill their faces with shame; That they may seek thy name, O LORD. [17] Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: [18] That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, Art the Most High over all the earth.

Timestamp: 9:45

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.

Timestamp: 9:45

Ephesians 2:8–9 KJV

[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] not of works, lest any man should boast. 

Timestamp: 22:15

John 3:16 KJV

[16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

Timestamp: 22:15

1 Corinthians 15:3–4 KJV

[3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; [4] and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 

Timestamp: 28:11

Ephesians 1:7 KJV

[7] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Timestamp: 28:36

Ephesians 2:8–9 KJV

[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] not of works, lest any man should boast. 

Timestamp: 28:50