A Leopard Cannot Change its
Spots!
March 12, 2007
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Jeremiah 13:23 – Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
A leopard can attack in darkness and one cannot see its spots, but the spots are still there, just not visible.
The Hamas is truly composed of the children of darkness and, like the leopard, very cunning as it seeks its prey. It is possible that Hamas’ cunning may, at some point in time, moderate its stand as a child of darkness to temporarily lull Israel into a false sense of “peace and safety,” but Hamas will always be a leopard, and Israel will always be its prey. Hamas could not do good, even if it wanted to do so, because it is so accustomed to do evil.
From a pr
actical standpoint, in the moral state of this present world in cunning and deceit, the Hamas is much wiser in this generation than the believing children of light.
Many of the children of light are closing their eyes to the immediate fulfilling of prophecy in the Middle East, and are not accepting that the close of the Age of the Gentiles is at our very doors.
They believe all of this will go on like a bad dream, and the final war of this age is many years away.
They think they are going to get to live to a ripe old age, see their grandchildren marry and have their great-grandchildren, then finally die and go to heaven – And this is the great and major desire of their hearts.
It was the same before the judgment of God on this earth in the days of Noah, and the days of Lot.
Luke 16:8 – And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light.
Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. [28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Hopefully, more of this generation will realize that judgment is in our immediate future, and those who are already children of light will not follow the same desires as those
who are the children of darkness. We are not supposed to love the things of this world more than the things of God.
We are not to have the same mindset as the children of darkness. Because of this phenomenon, many are going to be shocked when all hell breaks loose in the Middle East.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – 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.
Many continue to believe that somehow the ingrained hatred in Hamas will be soothed and “that day” is light years away, or they will not have to experience any of the things associated with “that day.” But rest assured Hamas will not change its inner determination to destroy Israel, and “that day” will overtake many children of light “as a thief” in the night.
Begin Report from Khajeel Times Online – News – Middle East
Hamas says still seeks Israel’s destruction
(Reuters)
March 12, 2007
GAZA – The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by Al Qaeda’s second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel’s destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.
‘We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine,’ Hamas said in a statement, in a clear reference to Israel as well as to the occupied West Bank.
In an audio recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, Al Qaeda’s Ayman Al Zawahri accused Hamas of serving US interests by agreeing to respect past Palestinian peace accords with Israel in a recent Saudi-brokered unity government deal with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah.
The coalition agreement fell short of meeting demands by the Quartet of peace mediators — the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — to recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace deals.
Zawahri said the Mecca accord, which calmed weeks of Hamas-Fatah warfare in which more than 90 Palestinians were killed, was part of an attempt by Washington to offset Muslim anger at what he described as its bias towards Israel.
‘It is an American scheme to hit the Islamic jihadist resistance against the Crusader-Zionist campaign.
America wanted a sham solution to the Palestinian issue to remove the biggest reason for Muslim hatred (of the United States),’ he said.
Scolding
Zawahri accused Hamas of abandoning a tradition of suicide bombings for political gains. ‘They have ditched the movement of martyrdom operations … for a government that plays with words in palace halls,’ he said.
Hamas killed nearly 300 Israelis in 58 suicide bombings after a Palestinian uprising began in 2000. It last carried out a suicide bombing in Israel in 2004.
In its statement Hamas said it continued to be a ‘movement of resistance, seekers of martyrdom’ and that its ‘principles will never be changed’.
‘Zawahri’s recent statements were wrong … Resistance is our strategy. How and when? This depends on the reality at the time and our corresponding view of things,’ Hamas said.
‘So be assured doctor Ayman, and all those who love Palestine like yourself, that Hamas is still the group you knew when it was founded and it will never abandon its path.’
Hamas said its decision to run in the January 2006 Palestinian election that brought it to power and last month’s unity deal with Fatah ‘came only to preserve the higher interests of the Palestinian people’.
Hamas leaders have offered a long-term truce with Israel in return for a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The group’s 1988 founding chapter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state
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