Our church’s nursery, E.P.I.C. (Encouraging Parents In Christ), opened in January in Rutherglen, Glasgow, and is flourishing! With dedicated staff, excellent facilities, and joyful children and parents, it’s a cherished community hub grounded in traditional Christian values.However, funding challenges threaten its future. E.P.I.C. invested heavily to meet Care Inspector registration standards and applied for vital government-funded hours for 3-5-year-olds. Sadly, their first Tender application was rejected. While they await news on a second application by December, urgent support is needed to keep the nursery open.Please help our little ones continue to grow in this safe, loving, and spiritually nurturing environment! Your prayers for E.P.I.C. are deeply appreciated, as is any support you can offer. Visit their Crowdfunder page to contribute: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/7nPrJRgl Follow and encourage them on:
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When new agers convert to Christianity, they’re immediately hit with memes asserting that KJV is the ONLY trustworthy Bible, and all other translations are new age because they have missing, added, or mistranslated words. In this video, Biblical scholar and former KJV Onlyist Dr. Mark Ward analyzes the conspiracy theories and separates fact from fiction about the King James 1611 Bible and the Textus Receptus.
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We’re witnessing an assault—including that of the most violent sort—by communist-style revolutionary evil in America. It all smacks of being directly out of the Karl Marx playbook. The young candidate for mayor of New York City, who has basically sewn up the Democrat nomination, is currently the chief archetype example of this radical leftist assault.
Marxism, communism, Nazism, fascism…these evoke thoughts of tyrants and dictatorships. Well, Marxism and communism might be wishful utopianism to some within political ideology circles in these days of movement toward socialism. But for the most part, thoughts of these isms generate study-related memories of the likes of Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other humanity-destroying beasts.
The matters involved within the recollection include revolution, war, torture, gulag, genocide—any systems of governing that should be avoided at all costs. Fear and apprehension over dictatorships were the very reason the United States Constitution was written. Specifically, the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, spells out the rights of each citizen that government cannot usurp. These rights, the shapers of the Constitution meticulously wrote, are “inalienable.” That is, they are given by God, thus can’t be taken away by people in government.
Another ism has developed that threatens our inalienable rights. Its ominous construction continues at a torrid pace and will ultimately be worse than any of the aforementioned isms. As a matter of fact, it will be all those tyrannical nightmares rolled up into one system of utter decimation. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, authors of well-known novels, played upon fear of such governments in their futuristic books, 1984 and Brave New World. The swiftness of developments lately makes their works of fiction look ever more prophetic.
Orwell used London and Britain in 1984 as the genesis of a world of ruthless control. “Big Brother is watching you” is a phrase the author used with grave effect. It continues to be used by those who warn of the exponentially encroaching surveillance technologies. Again, Orwell’s vision was almost prophetic in the biblical sense.
A friend who is a well-known journalist in Great Britain emailed me a number of years ago with the following troubling, though fascinating, information:
I was putting together some slides for one of my presentations yesterday and discovered that Britain has 1.5 times as many surveillance cameras as China! We now have cameras that talk to people, bossing them around in the streets! They are being installed in twenty cities. They are also getting listening devices. Some places also have face-monitoring systems so they can scan for people the authorities are interested in.
The average Briton is now filmed about three hundred times per day! We also have camera cars patrolling the streets, filming whatever takes their fancy and harassing motorists.
We are years ahead of America in plans to put GPS systems in cars, etc. They also want even more speed cameras, speed-averaging cameras—you name it. All of them are being linked into one enormous grid. The records of journeys are logged and kept. As you drive down the main highways, your number plates are scanned every few miles. Our son and I spent a day in the control room where all this information is monitored—an astonishing operation, with screens showing all the main roads. The EU is now planning to store all e-mails, log every web page visited, every phone call, etc., which Britain has done for years.
My friend told me—has told the world—that cameras are trained on his home from right across the street, atop a telephone-type pole.
It isn’t hard to imagine what that surveillance system is like these years later with the exponential developments involving AI (artificial intelligence).
It’s just a matter of time until all of England is under a surveillance system much more sophisticated and intrusive than our 1940s author, George Orwell, could have imagined. All of Europe is following suit, and we can see developments hourly of evidence that America is coming into Big Brotherism’s orbit of control.
The whole world is on track for super-sophisticated tracking. And a familiar name pops through the inky blackness of cyberspace to make this a readily observable fact: google.com.
Who in the world knows as much about you and your private thoughts as Google? That’s the question Katherine Albrecht, radio talk-show host and one-time spokeswoman for Startpage, a search engine that protects user privacy, posed to American Internet surfers a decade and a half ago.
“It would blow people’s minds if they knew how much information the big search engines have on the American public,” she told WND. “In fact, their dossiers are so detailed they would probably be the envy of the KGB” (Chelsea Schilling, “Life with Big Brother: Killer Way to Slay the Google Beast!” WorldNetDaily, 1/27/2010).
Albrecht detailed how Google and other search engines gather and maintain dossiers on everyone who uses the service. Despite legislative efforts in Congress to regulate Google and other such intrusive cyberspace entities, the information continues to be released to governments—for example, to America’s Homeland Security Agency—when information is requested. It seems the Bill of Rights is cast aside, even with efforts to legislate against invasive intrusion. Such ability to collect data on their victims was merely the dreams of people like those in Stalin’s secret service and Hitler’s Gestapo.
Albrecht said Americans unwittingly share their most private thoughts with search engines, serving up snippets of deeply personal information about their lives, habits, troubles, health concerns, preferences, and political leanings.
“We’re essentially telling them our entire life stories—stuff you wouldn’t even tell your mother—because you are in a private room with a computer,” she said (ibid.).
Big Brotherism, of course—in our view at Rapture Ready—is another way of defining the ideology that is heading up the drive toward establishing the regime of Antichrist, found in Revelation 13:16–18. With the government groping for control in ways that totally disregard the wishes of US citizenry, more often than not throwing constitutional safeguards to the winds of political expediency, the ideology becomes ever more manifest through our daily headlines.
All of this shows how near we must be to the Tribulation hour—thus, we’re that much closer to Christ calling His Church to be with Him (John 14:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).
As believers in Jesus Christ and believers in God’s prophetic Word, and knowing how all this points to the any-moment call of the Lord to His Church in the Rapture, we should be ever more faithful in warning those who will be left behind if they don’t accept the salvation offered by Christ.
Here is the message so vital at this late hour of this Age of Grace.
That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10)
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Pictures of starving children are horrifying and motivate decent people to do anything to relieve their suffering. That sentiment is driving the current diplomatic offensive against Israel, in which much of Europe is demanding that the Jewish state end the war against Hamas on virtually any terms.
There is a growing consensus within the mainstream media and the foreign-policy establishment that what is going on in the Gaza Strip has become so grievous that the fighting must end immediately. With even some supporters of Israel saying that after nearly two years of inaccurate if not downright false claims of famine and "genocide" in the coastal enclave, there are now the first credible claims that hunger is spreading, the political and diplomatic situation is beginning to turn even more sharply in favor of Hamas.
Talks derailed by propaganda
Rather than this bringing the war that began with the Hamas-led Palestinian-Arab attacks on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, closer to a conclusion, it has, at least in the short term, made it even less likely. The breakdown of the talks for a ceasefire-hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas that has been pushed by the Trump administration is a direct result of the propaganda victory won by the terrorists.
Their strategy to create a famine in spite of the fact that food and other supplies were available to feed the hungry didn't just create suffering for their own people. It gave them leverage to continue the war they started on the morning of Oct. 7 to not only worsen the plight of Palestinians but also to bludgeon an exhausted and beleaguered Israel into submission.
We don't know whether that will mean a ceasefire deal that will be skewed even more in Hamas's favor and essentially allow them to remain in charge of much or all of the Strip. Nor can we be sure if it is a sign that Hamas intends to continue fighting in Gaza indefinitely, confident that the increased casualties and the pain of Palestinians caught in the crossfire of the conflict will only increase sympathy for their jihad to ultimately destroy the one Jewish state on the planet.
But we do know that those who have--either out of malice for Israel or ignorance of facts on the ground--aided Hamas's efforts to manufacture a famine or have spread misinformation about the crisis to blame the Jewish state for what the terrorists have done are as much to blame for this dismal situation as the terrorists. Those in the United Nations and international community, and those tasked with aiding humanitarian disasters and the so-called human-rights organizations, coupled with media outlets playing along with Hamas's strategy, aren't just wrong. They bear a great deal of the responsibility for any starvation in Gaza and the failure of the negotiations.
Hamas digs in
Just days earlier, few doubted that an agreement to end the fighting was within reach and would likely be sealed within the week. But those expectations were derailed by the same factor--agony in Gaza--that had seemed to fuel the urgency to conclude a ceasefire.
What happened was that the food crisis that Hamas manufactured through tactics designed to hijack and/or obstruct the delivery of supplies to those Gazans who needed them succeeded not merely in increasing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and criticism of Israel.
It also gave the terrorists a reason to dig in their heels.
On the brink of what most observers assumed was a successful negotiation, Hamas was encouraged by the way their propaganda victory had caused 25 countries and the European Union to demand an immediate end to the war. France, which has been increasingly hostile to Israel since Oct. 7, then declared its recognition of a Palestinian state, rewarding the terrorists, albeit with a meaningless gesture toward a sovereign nation that doesn't actually exist.
And with headlines screaming outrage about starvation in Gaza, Hamas has decided there's no reason to concede anything in the negotiations.
They are clearly determined not merely to hold onto at least some of the hostages who were kidnapped on Oct. 7, but to also insist on paying no price for starting a war by committing unspeakable atrocities against Israel and then waging it by sacrificing Palestinian civilians. If Hamas emerges from any agreement still in control of the Gaza Strip, they not only have reason to declare victory. They will be in a position to rebuild the military forces that Israel shattered in the fighting, as well as the terrorist tunnels that made the fighting so difficult. The end result will be that the independent Palestinian state in all but name that was created by the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 will be reconstituted with Hamas in a position to keep its promise to repeat the horrors of Oct. 7 until Israel no longer exists.
A manufactured famine
It's important to understand what created the food shortage in Gaza.
Contrary to the misleading stories in the corporate media, it's not because Israel is preventing food from getting into Gaza or because of a mythical effort to perpetuate a genocide there.
The main cause of the problem is, as Amit Segal reported this week in The Free Press, the price of food rather than its unavailability. As Hebrew University economics professor Yannay Spitzer has documented, the price of flour--"the most essential consumer good"--has undergone an 80-fold increase since the start of the war.
The cause of that out-of-control inflation of prices was not, however, an Israeli effort to prevent flour from entering Gaza. As has been proven by the comments of Gazans and the numerous photos and videos of the availability of foodstuffs in the Strip, the problem has been that Hamas has been stealing the aid that comes into Gaza and then either hoarding it for their own cadres and/or selling it at exorbitant prices to Palestinian civilians.
U.N. agencies that are driven by their support for the Palestinian war on Israel have been claiming that Israel doesn't let convoys of aid trucks into Gaza. But the plain fact is that, as has repeatedly been the case since conflict began, more than 900 trucks packed with supplies intended for needy Palestinians have already entered Gaza and are in the hands of the United Nations. Yet their contents are not being distributed, something verified by the press. Israel has offered the world body five different routes for the distribution of the food, though none have been accepted or acted upon.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organization created by the United States and Israel to make up for the failure of U.N. aid agencies to do their job in Gaza, is also seeking to provide more food and to hand it over to the world body's agents. But again, the U.N. groups are doing nothing while working overtime to spread the blood libel that it is Israel that is causing Gazans to starve.
Hamas is also responsible for the problems that the GHF has encountered and the claims that Israel is slaughtering Palestinians who come to it for aid.
Again, as they have sought to do since the conflict began, Hamas terrorists have done their best to prevent anyone but themselves from being in charge of the distribution of products needed for the population's survival. Since the GHF began its efforts to get around the logjam created both by Hamas hijackings of convoys and the stalling of U.N. agencies, the terrorists have deliberately created situations in which the crowds attempting to access the aid have either been attacked or seeded with the Islamist group's operatives.
That has resulted in repeated instances in which Israeli troops guarding the distribution efforts have come under threat and responded by firing into the air. Inevitably, that means some casualties to the mobs rushing toward them, which have been augmented by Hamas fire. The numbers of those hurt or killed in these unfortunate incidents are then inflated out of all proportion to reality, as has been true of all casualty numbers produced by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
This has further damaged Israel's image abroad, adding more fuel to the fire of a post-Oct. 7 global surge in antisemitism rooted in fraudulent smears about "genocide." More than that, it has now led to something that up until now was largely untrue: a genuine shortage of food in Gaza.
This shortage is entirely the fault of Hamas.
The terrorist group's refusal to lay down their arms and give up the hostages has always been the only hindrance to the cessation of hostilities. Yet by pursuing a policy of obstructing the distribution of aid and stealing as much of it as they can, the Islamists have driven food prices inside Gaza up to ruinous levels.
And there is nothing that Israel can do about it except to redouble its efforts to destroy what's left of Hamas's forces, and thereby prevent them from continuing to harass and intimidate Palestinians, who don't wish to be dependent on the gunmen for food. As long as Hamas can continue to sabotage humanitarian efforts and U.N. groups that are implacably hostile to Israel and essentially in the pockets of Hamas--as they were on Oct. 7 and before that--are complicit in this Hamas plan, no humanitarian efforts or Israeli generosity to their foes can entirely prevent hunger from spreading there.
The price of giving in
The question then is whether the international pressure the crisis has generated--combined with the war weariness of Israelis and eagerness of the Trump administration for a deal that it can claim as a diplomatic victory for the president--will be enough to force Israel and the United States to return to the talks, and give Hamas everything it wants.
That might turn down the volume on the propaganda that is branding Israel a pariah state, as well as leading to increased incidents of antisemitism across the globe. It might also lead to the release of some, but almost certainly not all, of the Israeli hostages and some of the corpses of their victims that the terrorists are still holding for ransom.
It would also give the Israel Defense Forces a much-needed respite for an unspecified period. But that period of calm would only last as long as it takes for a rejuvenated and triumphant Hamas to be able--with the international aid that will pour into the Strip--to rebuild its armed forces enough to the point where it will return to a position where it will again be a deadly threat to the Jewish state. No one should doubt that this will happen, regardless of any pledges to the contrary or safeguards built into a ceasefire agreement. Or at least it will unless and until the United States is committed to supporting a resumption of Israel's war against Hamas as soon as that becomes obvious.
But no one should think a U.S.-Israel surrender to Hamas will end the suffering of Gazans, who will remain in thrall to a terrorist group that will not hesitate to continue sacrificing them in the name of a "resistance" that won't cease until the Jewish state is destroyed.
What is happening there ought to be listed along with human-made famines plotted by Communist tyrants Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, which killed many millions of people in the history of self-inflicted catastrophes undertaken for political reasons. Yet this crime committed by Hamas is being blamed on Israel and the Jews because of lies spread by the media and buttressed by antisemitic tropes.
After 22 exhausting months of fighting Hamas, the impulse to give in to this propaganda war is understandable, if regrettable. The dilemma of those in Washington and Jerusalem, who must now consider whether or not they have the moral strength to resist the opprobrium that will be falsely slung at them while Hamas continues to starve its own people, is unenviable. But they should remember that the price of letting the terrorists get away not only with starting a war and committing unspeakable atrocities, but also for manufacturing a famine, will continue to be paid in the blood of countless Jews and Arabs if the terrorists achieve their objective.
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It happened almost overnight. The world’s perception of Abu Mohammad al-Julani changed from that of a wanted terrorist to the respected president of Syria. A year ago, the United States had a ten-million-dollar bounty on his head; it regarded him as one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. Now it recognizes him as the president of a legitimate Syrian government.
The fawning of world governments over this desperado, who now wears a suit, is proving misguided, although few, if any, recognize their error. Julani is still the same murderous thug who led a lengthy and bloody revolt that ended late last year with him as the new leader of Syria.
According to a Reuters news report from June 30, 2025, Julani’s forces “massacred 1,500 Alawites,” which is an ethnic group that lives along the Mediterranean Coast of Syria. The Syrian government is also behind the recent mass killings of the Druze, another ethnic and religious group within its borders.
Julani’s attempt to massacre the Druze people led to recent Israeli attacks against his forces. Israel’s defense of this people group included the bombing of government buildings in Damascus. Amir Tsarfati reported on his telegram page that in an attempt to avoid the airstrikes by the IDF, the Syrian forces disguised themselves as Bedouins in an attempt to continue their murderous assault apart from the detection of the Israeli armed forces.
The Syrian government’s massacre of innocents has extended beyond Arab ethnic groups. As reported by Amir Tsarfati on Telegram, Syrian “Jihadists killed Pastor Khaled Mzher, shepherd of the (Good Shepherd Evangelical) church, along with all his family members, siblings, their children, his father, and his mother (20 bodies) in the Syrian city of As-Suwayda.”
The Prophecy of Damascus’ Destruction
Although the mainstream media ignores the horrific massacres ordered from Damascus, we know that God sees all the bloodshed as well as the great grief of those dealing with the murder of their loved ones.
Do the accounts of the killing of innocents in Syria point to the nearness of Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the destruction of Damascus?
Isaiah 17:1 KJV – “The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
The capital city of Syria has never suffered such a fate since the time Isaiah recorded these words about 2,700 years ago; it has remained a viable inhabited city ever since the days of the prophet. As the horrific bloodshed instigated by the Syrian government continues, is it possible that we are nearing the day when the Lord will reduce Damascus, the Syrian capital, to “a heap of ruins?” I think so.
The picture in Isaiah 17:1 of Damascus reduced to rubble reminds me of pictures from Gaza after Israeli bombs left large sections of its cities in total shambles. This has already happened to parts of Damascus as the result of Israeli bombing, but the city as a whole remains intact. At least for now.
The Bible doesn’t tell us how or when God will completely destroy the large and populous city of Damascus, making it totally uninhabitable. A nuclear blast could do this, but how would that happen?
Will It Happen Before the Gog/Magog Invasion?
Many Bible prophecy experts believe that God’s judgment will fall on Damascus before the Gog/Magog war (Ezekiel 38-39) since Ezekiel doesn’t list Syria as one of the invading nations. Syria’s absence is also conspicuous because, with its current leadership, it would surely join this all-out assault on Israel. One of the nation’s leaders recently stated that their future agenda is to “liberate Jerusalem.”
The primary path of the Gog/Magog invaders will be through Syria onto the mountains of Israel, which makes its exclusion from the list of nations in Ezekiel 38 all the more noteworthy and strongly suggests that Damascus’ destruction happens first.
Will It Happen Before the Rapture?
At first glance, Isaiah’s prophecy concerning Damascus seems rather obscure. It’s curious that of all the many prophecies concerning nations besides Israel recorded in the Old Testament prophets, this one catches our attention, and we realize that the city has remained viable ever since the prophet recorded the Lord’s promise of its total destruction.
Will we see the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning Damascus’ demise before the Rapture? It’s possible, and oh, what a sign pointing to the nearness of the Rapture that would be! If we are here to witness it, we will know that our remaining time on the earth is exceedingly short.
I believe it’s more likely that Jesus will take us home before the destruction of Damascus and the subsequent invasion of Israel described in Ezekiel 38. What we see today, however, provides us with considerable evidence that God’s patience with Syria may come to an end in the near future. Soon afterward, His wrath will fall on Damascus, the Gog/Magog invaders of Israel, and then to the rest of planet Earth during the Tribulation period.
It’s just like God, who loves to predict still future events from ancient times, to leave this prophecy concerning the destruction of Damascus as a gem for us to find. The prophecy explains Syria’s absence from the list of the Gog/Magog invading nations. And should the world blame Israel for the city’s demise, such a perception would certainly motivate them to attack Israel soon afterward.
Because the Rapture is a sign less event, we cannot say for sure whether or not it will happen before or after Damascus’ destruction. Regardless, what we see happening in Syria is yet another sign pointing to the nearness of the time when we will meet Jesus in the air.
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Who are the Messianic Jews of Israel? The Jews who believe in Jesus Christ
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In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul spoke of a revelation of heaven that was too wonderful to describe in the third person so that he would not appear to be bragging. But there are more than 575 other passages in the Bible that describe heaven. Pastor Gary shares seven points about the “Hope of Heaven” and invites people to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior so that they can enjoy heaven for eternity after they die. Are you certain that you are going to heaven when you die? Join us for today’s teaching so that you can be sure you are!
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Many skeptics claim there’s no evidence for the Exodus. But is that true? Last fall, CrossExamined took an incredible trip to Egypt where we explored some of the most compelling archaeological evidence for the biblical Exodus–up close and personal! In this video, you'll see 9 fascinating archaeological discoveries that line up with the Exodus account. From ancient inscriptions to forgotten ruins–you definitely don’t want to miss this!
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The Bible declares, “I have set before you life and death… now choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19). At bornagainchristians.faith, we stand for the sanctity of every life, from the womb to eternity, because each child is “knit together” by our Creator (Psalm 139:13). Recent news of Ireland’s mother and baby homes, where nearly 800 babies died at St Mary’s, Tuam, and 9,000 across decades, breaks our hearts. These homes, run by religious orders, failed to protect the vulnerable, leaving a legacy of sorrow.
God calls us to do better. The tragedy of these homes, now closed, reminds us why we oppose abortion and champion life. Every baby deserves a safe haven—a place of love, care, and hope. In Jesus, we find the ultimate refuge (Psalm 46:1), and through His Church, we can offer practical help to mothers and children in crisis. Today, no child should face neglect or death because of shame or hardship.
Our “Choose Life” mission is a call to action. We pray for mothers to choose life, for churches to support them, and for society to value every soul. Let’s make our homes and hearts safe havens, reflecting Christ’s compassion for the “least of these” (Matthew 25:40). Join us in prayer and support for life-affirming ministries, ensuring no child is forgotten.
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