THE DAY WILL COME

 

In the news: "The bodies of murdered young children, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were just 10-months-old and 4-years-old when they were murdered no later than November 2023, after being taken hostage on October 7 of that year, were returned to Israel. The body of their mother, Shiri Bibas, was however not returned, as Hamas paraded the coffins only to send the body of an unidentified woman, who was not even one of the 251 hostages. Israel, and the rest of the world has reacted in sorrow and horror, with plans to be figured out now that Hamas has broken the ceasefire. 

"Daniel Hagari, the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) spokesperson, announced that the dead children returned Thursday to Israel from Gaza were beaten to death by terrorists.

“We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, aged just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged four, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza no later than November 2023,” the spokesperson said. “Contrary to Hamas’ lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys. They killed them with their bare hands.”

"Hamas displayed the caskets on a makeshift stage in front of an anti-Semitic sign depicting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodthirsty vampire snarling above a photo of the murdered captives. Hamas said it had placed inside the coffins Shiri Bibas, 32; her two children, 4-year-old Ariel and 9-month-old Kfir; and 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz. Hamas kidnapped them during the terror group's Oct. 7 terror rampage through Israel.

"Before being returned to Israel, the International Committee of the Red Cross dispatched one of its staffers to sit with a uniformed Hamas terrorist at a camouflage table and sign "paperwork." The coffins were then transported through Gaza as hordes of Palestinians cheered and chanted "victory" in Arabic."

Jew hatred runs dark and deep. The darkness and depth of the animosity toward Jews is of such a nature that we have to ask, "What kind of people strangle babies and children to death and what kind of people cheer and chant, celebrating the murders of a 10 month old and a 4 year old only because their victims are Jews?

Answer: The demon-possessed. Yet, according to The Times of Israel, "Since 1994, Washington has provided the Palestinians with more than $5.2 billion through USAID." 

There is a day coming. A word from God to such people: "Do not gloat over your brother’s [Israel's] day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah In the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast in the day of their distress. . . . I will bring you down declares the Lord!" (Obadiah 1:12; 1: 4)

 

A MESSAGE FROM OBADIAH TO USAID

 

"USAID (US AID)  humanitarian packages were found amidst a cache of weapons owned by terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an Israel Defense Forces soldier claimed to an American newspaper.

“From the American taxpayer to Hezbollah, with love,” said Asher Fredman,, a former IDF soldier and currently executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, a think tank, in Jerusalem.

"Asher told The Post that he found sniper rifles, anti-tank missiles and explosives alongside the care packages marked “USAID” while on patrol in an undisclosed village in Lebanon where the Iran-backed Hezbollah had a stronghold."

There's a line from a TV series in which the antihero, who has been found out, says to the federal agent, "If you don't know who I am, your best course would be to treas lightly."

It is evident that USAID did not know who they were dealing with when they sent aid and comfort to the Jew-hating terrorist group, Hezbollah, an ally and supporter of Hamas. They did know what Hezbollah was, and they did know Hamas but USAID didn't know Someone else. Hamas (lit. "Violence") has stated its goal: 

"Hamas’ ideology is simple and it is this simplicity that makes it so powerful to the masses: 'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it'. This declared objective appears right at the beginning of Hamas’ Covenant, as translated and published by the Yale University School of Law.

"To dispel any doubts between being only “anti-Israel” or just plain “antisemitic”, Hamas’ Covenant spells this explicitly: “The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” (The Times of Israel," Oct. 13, 2023, emphasis theirs)

In the shortest book in the Old Testament and the least read one in the Bible, Obadiah identifies who USAID is dealing with when it engages in sending care packages to an organization of Jew haters:

Obadiah 1:11, in a list of Edom's crimes against Israel, there is the notation that one of those crimes was to become one with Babylon who had attacked Israel. Obadiah described what awaited Edom for its aiding Babylon: Obadiah 1:4--"I (God) will bring you down!" despite their boast as the nation bragged, "Who will bring me down?" (Obadiah 1:3)

By sending the care packages, USAID became as Hezbollah and Hamas (Obadiah 1:11). To oppose Israel is to poke the "pupil of God's eye" (Zechariah 2:8, literal translation)  

Recalling the words of verse 4, we have now seen this result: God has has taken down the USAID website, USAID has let go of hundreds of staff, and the USAID office building has been closed, preventing other staff from accessing it.

USAID did not "tread lightly" when it came to giving aid an comfort to the Jew-hating Hezbollah.

 

 

 

THE "RELIGION" YOU'RE ALLOWED TO CRITICISE

 Someone said, "You accept the society in which you were born." In other words, we fail to recognize our own cultural norms because they are so…normal even if they're wrong and we accept them without thought.  Does a fish realize that it's always been in water until it flops ashore?  

For example, decades ago, people used to smoke cigarettes everywhere, even lighting up in hospitals. You didn't think about it; it was normal. When you watched a game show on TV, the host would be smoking (if the sponsor of the program was Camels or Winston). A thank-you gift for being a contestant on a program like "I've Got A Secret" was a carton of the sponsor's cigarettes. 

In commercials on TV or ads on the back cover of a magazine, a man dressed in a white lab coat, a "doctor," would tell us that his favorite brand was Winston which he said,  "Winston astes good like a cigarette should." It was a catchy jingle, one not to be forgotten.

Athletes got into the trend; an ad picturing Mickey Mantle, cigarette in hand, with the words, "So many of the Yanks smoke Camels, I decided to try them. I smoked Camels a while and I knew--Camels are for me! They're mild and swell tasting." We gave it no thought.

Movies advertised in the newspaper didn't give the starting times for the feature; you might arrive in the middle or near the end. Nobody thought about; it just was.

Decades ago, parents gave us boys B-B guns and turned us loose with no supervision to go out and kill as many birds as we could for no other reason than the thrill of the kill. To kill a robin redbreast was a special achievement, one worthy of praise. Nobody thought anything about it. 

Fast forward to our day and the statement still holds, "You accept the society in which you were born." We watch a movie or TV drama in which a kidnappers take a child and hold him for ransom. The frantic parents call the police, the FBI gets involved, they set up a wire tap on the home phone. 

There's one thing the parents don't ever do in the movie: pray. It's the norm for a movie of that type. We think nothing about it. 

Here's another interesting one: there's only one "religion" our culture can criticize and mock it and its Book. Christianity and the Bible. Celebrities winning an Oscar include in their acceptance speech words that mock and blaspheme Christianity. In movies, a preacher is either a fanatical nut, a hypocrite or a devious villain. 

But does the public notice the celebrities don't mock Islam, an Imam, or the Koran. In fact, the celebrities, the academics, and the elites offer nary a jest nor a criticism of that religion. It's all so normal, no one notices the glaring omission. So, the younger generation born into such a society accept it. That's it, over and out.

Therefore, those recently born in our society accept all of this--no praying by frantic parents, no criticism of Islam because . . . there is no "because." Without thinking about it or wondering about it, or asking, "Why," to them, it just "is."  

We are in such a society. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.