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Cartoon of the day # 213
Daily bread from the life of Y´shua
Matthew 26:45
Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
The students of Jesus was not even able to keep awake on the night the Messiah was going to be betrayed. The Son of God explained that He was going to be betrayed into the hand of sinners. Who crucified Jesus of Nazareth? It was my sins that crucified Him. I was the sinner that deserved to die in Jerusalem. But Jesus loved me, and came to the city of David and took my place.
Persecuted for speaking the truth
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon apologized. He had to.
OP-ED by Gonen Ginat, in Israel Hayom.
Regular Israelis, however, are exempt from such diplomatic etiquette, free to clarify to the Americans what they know anyway, as anybody who regularly deals with Israeli popular opinion polls knows: namely, that the vast majority of Israelis believe that Ya’alon, before the apology, spoke the truth. They believe he was right.
The Americans were furious. Self-appointed experts in etiquette and propriety set out to compete over rolling eyes and sanctimonious pronouncements (making sure to be widely quoted).
But, as the dust settles, the Americans deserve to know: The majority of us are with Ya’alon, the man who spoke not only what he believes, but what most of us believe too.
Ya’alon was never great at civil talk or clean speech. He may even be a little naive. Actually, he may be very naive. Ya’alon actually believed in the upstanding quality of the people at Yedioth Ahronoth, that he could speak openly without having to fear that his comments would be leaked. They promised him that. But who believes a word Yedioth says anymore? Only a very naive person.
As a politician, Ya’alon differs from the norm, so much so that he has to strap on high boots to avoid the snakes. He said what was on his mind without sanctimony. He didn’t play around. We’re not used to people telling us the truth. We aren’t used to a politician who speaks the truth.
Now that Ya’alon has spoken the truth, we have to ask: What if he was correct?
Source: Israeli Hayom.com
My comment:
I hope Ya’alon has learned from this moment of truth. And in particular about Benjamin Netanyahu’s willingness to compromise on truth.
Please read the fairy tale by Danish author H.C Andersen.
“The emperor has no clothes”.
When the last and final antichrist arrive in Jerusalem, he will be hailed by the multitudes. But a sizable numbers of true witnesses will claim, that this man and his followers are blind and naked.
Among claimed to be Christians, you find a lot of such people.
Revelation 3:17
You say, “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.” But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Written by Ivar
Christians called to martyrdom says Welby
Modern Christians are “called” to suffer and even die for the faith in a new era of ‘martyrdom’, says Archbishop of Canterbury.
Christians are facing a new age of “martyrdom” across much of the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey, the Most Rev Justin Welby singled out the persecution of believers across the Middle East and said Christians are still “called” to suffer and even die for the faith in the 21st Century.
But he insisted that religion is often just a “pretext” for violence and not the real cause.
He made his remarks at the end of a two-day visit with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholemew I, the most senior cleric in the eastern Orthodox church.
His comments in a city which has in the past been the capital of both the Christian and Muslim worlds underline the significance he attaches to the threat to Christians in the region, an issue the Prince of Wales also singled out last month.
Referring to the original Greek meaning of the word martyr, as a “witness”, he said: “Your history is more and more important in the increasing confrontations of the world in which religion is used as a pretext for violence that in reality comes from greed and the pride of human beings.
“You have demonstrated over the centuries the martyrdom to which we are called in scripture, the call to witness in word and life, a call more important than life itself”.
“The cost of that martyrdom is seen in so many places today.
“Closest to here we remember and seek the mercy of Christ and intercession of the Blessed Mother on Syria.” He then singled out the orthodox leaders in Aleppo and Antioch.
Source: The Telegraph.co.uk.
My comment:
I am not an Anglican, but are aware that Jesus the Messiah can use this Bishop to send us a message of truth. And even my self….
Prosperity teachers deceive the flock. They present to us an ideology of our guaranteed success in the flesh, in the name of “Jesus”. This is not correct.
The desire of the flesh, is at war with God. And the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
Jesus of the Bible in bluntly demanding the willingness to give the ultimate sacrifice from all his followers. And today, the blood of the martyrs are flowing all over the World, less post-Christian America and Europe.
Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
The martyrs are alive. The lukewarm’s are walking dead, and deceive both them selves and those who are listening to them.
Those who listen to them, eventually falls into a pit.
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus told him, ‘Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’
Written by Ivar
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