Obama has led many in US to become a nation that loves “smooth” speakers in his administration.
Chief of the “smooth” talking deceivers is Obama, but Kerry and Hillary are close behind him..
Both Isaiah & Jeremiah warned of leaders who would tell the Northern and the Southern Kingdoms “smooth” things,
That they wanted to hear rather than telling them of the terrible things about to Happen.
Many secular & religious leaders today are telling believers & unbelievers the “smooth” lies they want to Hear!
Many have come to believe man can solve his own carnal nature problems and that God’s prophecies
Concerning morality are misinterpreted by self-righteous interpreters who try to warn of judgment for doing them.
April 18, 2014
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Many are infected with “smooth talker” virus from speakers in Washington – Obama, Kerry, and Hillary are chief among them.
Many Americans are going down the same kind of rebellious path against God that Israel and Judah followed before they were carried into Captivity. God had it noted for future generations.
Isaiah 30:8-13 – Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: [10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11] Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. [12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13] Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
I Thessalonians 5:3-9 – 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. [7] For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. [8] But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Jeremiah 5:31 – The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
II Peter 3:1-4 – This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: [3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Wake Up Believers! This is where we are today! We are not going through the vials of Wrath, but we are going to be here during the seals and trumpets. We are not going out before any tribulation begins! We will be caught out of Tribulation on the last trump, which is trumpet 7 in Revelation!
What moral conditions existed before Israel and Judah were Judged
Isaiah 30:8,9 – Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
Jeremiah 5:29 – Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
What is the moral condition of Believers and Unbelievers Today:
II Timothy 3:1-5 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
What is described in the next 3 Scriptures are not FAR DISTANT Events:
I Corinthians 15:51,52 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Revelation 10:7 – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 11:15,18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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Kerry’s clichés
Op-ed: US Secretary of State has failed in his mission, mainly due to the fact that both sides did not desire its success. But he also did not dare to really push them to succeed
Shaul Arieli
April 17, 2014.
Nothing is more fitting to illustrate and summarize the wretchedness of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s mission – that some term as “negotiations” – than its final note.
Among all the facts, and all the fundamental differences between the two sides, Kerry chosen to blame the crisis in talks – seemingly just to spite – on Uri Ariel’s announcement of further construction in Jerusalem. This he did after delivering the cliché that Americans cannot want peace more than the sides themselves do.
The fact that Kerry chose these two excuses illustrates the extremely modest purpose of his mission. The secretary of state of a super-power has begun and ended his efforts at a great distance from the gaps in Palestinian Authority President Abbas and former prime minister Olmert’s positions in Annapolis in 2008 – without a framework for negotiations, without clear principles, and without defining parameters that could have turned the fruitless meetings into effective negotiations in which the differences could consistently lessen.
Kerry needed only to ask for data regarding construction in Judea and Samaria in the past year. He would have discovered what is already known – that Israel has increased, right under his nose, settlement construction by 123 percent.
No, this was not a national trend or an answer to the social protest, since in the same year, for example, there was a dramatic 19 percent drop in the number of housing units built in the Tel Aviv area.
This data coincides with countless others to show that the current government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, and its predecessor, are doing everything in their power to fulfill Naftali Benett and Ariel’s ideology – a complete negation of the two-state solution.
Kerry cannot but regret the manner in which he chose to conduct his efforts. He began his arduous journey with an Israeli demand to release Palestinian prisoners instead of insisting on the 1967 borders as a basis, a natural continuation to the UN’s decision in November 2012 to recognize Palestine as a state along the 1967 borders. He refrained from pressing the two sides on the core issues, which guaranteed the lack of clear answers that could have illustrated Israel and the Palestinians’ basic and practical position.
Those who call his mission “mediation efforts” would have to demand that basic positions be presented. At one end of his policy, Kerry preferred to extend imaginary “bridges”, mainly through the media, that seemingly connected between the vague positions that both sides presented, and were in effect nothing more than hollow slogans as those in Netanyahu’s famous Bar-Ilan speech.
At the other end, Kerry dealt with trifles such as Palestinian construction in area C, which is not even relevant to the sought-after permanent agreement.
There is no place for the American cliché any longer. Did Kerry really believe that the Netanyahu government wanted a permanent agreement based on international decisions? Did he not believe the Bayit Yehudi MKs who had announced in their party platform that “we oppose the establishment of any kind of Palestinian state west of Jordan”? Did he not understand that that this was the moment the Likud party was aiming for when it wrote in its platform: “When the time for final negotiations for peace comes, Likud will present a clear red line”? Did he not comprehend that Netanyahu is signed on a platform that includes within it statements such as “perseverance in population and development of all parts of the State of Israel and the imposition of the state’s sovereignty on them”? Was he simply beguiled by Foreign Minister Lieberman’s sweet talk that included his belief that “the demand for the establishment of a Palestinian state and the right of return are intended to disguise the true purpose, which is to eliminate the State of Israel as a Jewish and Zionist State”?
Kerry has failed in his mission at this stage, mainly due to the fact that both sides did not desire its success. But he also did not dare to really push them to succeed. Unfortunately, even if Kerry leaves now, we will have to return to our meetings. We can only hope that they will not be under more difficult conditions and circumstances, and especially hope that Kerry will draw the right conclusions.
Shaul Arieli is a retired IDF colonel, member of the Council for Peace and Security and a Geneva Initiative member.
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