NOTES: Tom says, let’s hang out together with the Lord. Maybe have some Chia tea and carrot cake!

Tom  says thank you to this community of believer’s encouragement. Says some days he doesn’t feel well, like today. Says he keeps and is thankful for cards and letters he gets. (Except the bad ones!) Thankful for all the prayers.

Words of encouragement from Jesus in John 14:  1-3  “Let not your heart he troubled. you believe in God believe also  in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am you may be also.”

Jesus  has been preparing a place for us for 2,000 years, to take us in the rapture.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 ” And to wait for His Son from heaven who he raised from the dead. Even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

2 Thessalonians 2: 7-8 “The mystery of lawlessness is already at work only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way and then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming:”

We are removed before the tribulation and the restrainer is the Holy Spirit in us. Then the antichrist is revealed.

Revelation 3:10. “Because you have kept My command to persevere I will also keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon  the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout  and with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words:”

Such a comfort as we see these end things.

News: Times of Israel: Syrian state media group says Israel is striking near Damascus. Some damage reported.

Tom says watching for for Isaiah 17. The burden against Damascus, it shall cease from being a city and be a ruinous heap. The Bible doesn’t say if it is before or after the rapture.

More attacks back and forth from Israel and Lebanon, no reports of injury. Hitting weapons depot and terror cells in S. Lebanon. Hezbollah deploys 700 fighters near Syria’s Golan Heights. Trained  by Iran revolutionary guard from several Middle East countries like Syria and Iraq.  Chief of Israel’s air force says they are willing to take the fight all over the Middle East, warning Iran and the proxies.

Tom says Israel is not  leaning on their God right now, but their weapons.

Amir says the UN has 13,000 employees in Gaza, They know exactly what is going on. As does Doctors without borders and amnesty and human rights watch, They all knew Hamas infrastructure was in the hospital compound where Israel  wouldn’t attack. They lied to the world for 16 years to paint Israel as evil. Tom says God is watching Israel, has a plan for them.

Israel Today: Israel has agreed to American request to allow 2 diesel tankers to enter S. Gaza every day for use by the U. N. to handle water and sewage problems in the  towns there. Sewage has been running through the streets. This agreement is causing conflict as Israel  was insisting hostages must be released first. Some are calling for Netanyahu to step down. He is getting a lot of pressure from all over the world.

Flooding in Dubai, also Kenya, Alaska already had 38 inches of snow in November, Snowiest one ever.

Earthquake in Philippines was recorded as 7.2. Serious damage.

Last 24 hours, 51 earthquakes over 4,0, 5 over 5.0 and 1 over 6. 0.

Today there is reports of a train derailed carrying thousands of gallons of diesel fuel in N.W. Atlanta Georgia.

Anti Christian hate crimes up by 44 % in Europe in the last year. Last days.

Good news- Iranians secretly translating the Bible into their languages. Christians growing in Muslim majority Iran, underground.

Clown would: Meta’s new Ai tool will let people add a dog into every picture, or  remove a person, or turn a dog into a Panda. Tom wants to say, the watchman community wants to ask Zuckerberg can we add clowns to pictures?!  Or make a commercial for Zuckerberg saying during this holiday don’t make artificial memories,  for artificially happy season! Laughs and Tom gets on a roll with how confusing it could get!

Comments:

Tom hears so many are having very difficult  times.  Most Christians are having hard times. Satan knows his days are numbered. Keep our eyes on Jesus.

Says set our minds on things above. imagine eternity without any pain, death, tears, money, relationship or health problems. Only perfect peace, love and praise. Will  see our Savior and thank Him for dying for us and  can always be with Him.

Says to Tom don’t stop preaching about the rapture.  It will soon be over.

Tom says I won’t stop. It’s like running a marathon for 4 hours and the last 10 minutes saying they go to the bench and have a snack. Need to  press through.

Says appreciates the support of each other right now and not so lonely in this. Praying for Israel and release of the hostages.

Says to realize every person is so precious to our Creator and all He wants is a response in return. We have all His promises of peace and a future with Him. How can people resist?

Gospel: To not receive all He gives is hard to understand, Paid for all our sins with His blood, to give us life. Died, buried, rose again on the third day, the best news.

Saved by faith in Jesus, unearned gift. Warns if reject what He did, go to hell. Asks, how can someone not saved spend so much time on  nonsense and not look into eternity.  Look into it. Be saved.

Today’s Scriptures:

John 14:1–3 KJV

[1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 

Timestamp: 2:22

1 Thessalonians 1:10 KJV

[10] and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Timestamp: 3:24

2 Thessalonians 2:7–8 KJV

[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. [8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 

Timestamp: 3:38

Revelation 3:10 KJV

[10] Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 

Timestamp: 4:15

1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 KJV

[16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: [17] then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Timestamp: 4:33

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: 6:33