In This Issue• The Daily Brief
• The Middle East in Focus
• The Daily Jot
• Songs for Chanukah
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The Daily Brief - Friday, December 3, 2010
"Then said LORD unto me, "You have seen well: for I will hasten [watch over] My word to perform it. (Jer. 1:12)
The Daily Brief
1. Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market - US News and World Report
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15 percent capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell off starting December 15 as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20 percent it would jump to next year, warn analysts.
a. Data shows fresh signs of improving economy - Reuters Fresh signs the U.S. economy has broken out of its summer soft patch emerged on Thursday as data showed a gauge of jobless benefits hit a new two-year low last week and pending home sales unexpectedly rose in October.
b. Fed Withholds Collateral Data for $885 Billion in Financial-Crisis Loans - Bloomberg The Federal Reserve withheld details on individual securities pledged as collateral by recipients of $885 billion in central bank loans, denying taxpayers a measure of the risks they faced from its emergency aid.
- "Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty. And your vats will overflow with new wine." (Prov. 3 v 9, 10)
2. South Korea warns it will hit North with air strikes if they attack again - UK Telegraph
South Korea will hit back with air strikes at the North and "punish the attacker thoroughly" should the regime launch another assault, the defence minister-designate has warned.
- "God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble, Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And the mountains be carried into the mist of the sea; Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah" ( Ps. 46 v 1- 3)
3. Possible Syrian nuke facility identified by satellite - Jerusalem Post
A compound in western Syria with buildings and hundreds of missile-shaped items has been identified as functionally related to a nuclear reactor Israel destroyed northeast of Damascus in 2007.
- "And the fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat." ( 2Chr. 17:10)
4. Israel, Gulf states conducted secret diplomacy - Washington Times
Israel and its adversaries in the Persian Gulf in recent years carried out extensive secret diplomacy to coordinate policy and exchange information on the threat posed by Iran, despite both sides' public posture of mutual hostility.
a. Iran says it arrested killers of nuclear scientists - Jerusalem Post Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi Thursday said that Iran has arrested those responsible for killing two nuclear scientists in Teheran on Monday, PressTV reported.
- "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down." (Rev. 12:10)
5. Netanyahu thanks 'friends' for int'l aid to battle Carmel fire - Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu on Friday morning thanked his international counterparts for planes, firefighters, supplies and fire retardant chemicals sent to assist efforts to control a huge forest fire in the Carmel which had already claimed 41 lives.
a. 15,000 evacuated as huge blaze threatens Haifa - Ha'aretz Mass evacuations continued across northern Israel Friday morning as dry easterly winds fanned a massive brushfire towards the city of Haifa.
- "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Gen. 12 v 2,3)
-- WATCH ON SATURDAY FOR A SPECIAL EDITION OF NEWS AND PRAYER REQUESTS ABOUT THE FIRE NOW BURNING ON MT. CARMEL.
The Middle East in Focus
This week, for all the headlines cited below, please join us in proclaiming THIS DECREE:
• "You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old." (Micah 7:20)
1. Netanyahu thanks 'friends' for int'l aid to battle Carmel fire - Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu on Friday morning thanked his international counterparts for planes, firefighters, supplies and fire retardant chemicals sent to assist efforts to control a huge forest fire in the Carmel which had already claimed 41 lives.
2. 15,000 evacuated as huge blaze threatens Haifa - Ha'aretz
Mass evacuations continued across northern Israel Friday morning as dry easterly winds fanned a massive brushfire towards the city of Haifa.
3. Wikileaks founder, Turkey dragging Israel into global fray - ICEJ News
Israel has gone largely unscathed by the Wikileaks scandal so far, but it was nonetheless pulled deeper into the global fray on Wednesday when the founder of the controversial Web site insisted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has argued that honesty in global diplomacy would be good for peace and stability, while a Turkish official blamed the entire affair on Israel.
The Daily Jot
The struggle for the inner man at the White House
The Saudi Arabian government foot the bill for the extended family of the man who occupies the Oval Office to go on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca this year. While that in of itself is telltale about who is controlling who in this world of the deceived and deceivers, what is more shocking is what was said in response to questions about the American president. Sarah Omar, the president's 88 year old Kenyan grandmother told the Al-Qatan Saudi newspaper: "I prayed for my grandson Barack to convert to Islam." She was in Mecca with the president's uncle Saeed Hussein Obama, and four of her grandchildren.
I think it is very interesting that the president's grandmother is praying for him to convert to Islam while Christians in America are praying for him to have a "Damascus Road" experience to understand what it means to be a Christian. All the while, the White House maintains that the president is a committed Christian. Islamic countries believe they have one of their own in the White House. So nobody really knows for sure where the president's heart is. He says he is a follower of the Christian faith. But nobody has ever heard him deny his roots which are undeniably Islamic. A March 6, 2007 New York Times article quoted him saying, the Muslim call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
He also said in a June 1, 2009 interview, "One of the points I want to make is, if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." And from a news conference in Turkey on April 6, he said, "And I've said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is - although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values." Trying to convince Muslims that America is not really a Christian nation, but also a Muslim nation, does not make the president Muslim.
But denying the deity of Christ sure does not make him a Christian. In a March 27, 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani, the then Illinois State Senator said, "I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people." This denies the very foundational doctrine of Christianity. Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Anyone who says there is more than one way to heaven, is not a Christian. They may follow Christ and his beliefs, but they do not believe Christ. The president's grandmother may not know if he is a Muslim, but discerning Christians know what he is not.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
Word of Life Ministry
www.dailyjot.com
Songs for Chanukah
Al Ha-nissim
Tonight the Jewish people will light the third candle on the menorah . . . here is a traditional song for this time, entitle Al Ha-nissim.
As we celebrate this holiday with the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, let's pause tonight and offer a prayer for the people of Israel who tonight are in pain and suffering as a result of the historic inferno now blazing on Mt. Carmel. Amen.
