Mr. President, Stop the Christian Slaughter! – Eddie Hyatt of Revive America

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Mr. President, Stop the Christian Slaughter! – Eddie Hyatt of Revive America

“Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, ‘Surely we did not know this,’ does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?” (Prov. 24:11-12).

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so (Prov. 3:27).

Dear Mr. President,

Your tepid response to the genocidal slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Syria is frightening. Your hesitancy and tentativeness in formulating a clear strategy to end this butchery of innocent people is alarming. Mr. President, with all due respect for you and the office you occupy, you have a moral responsibility before God to stop the slaughter of innocent men, women and children by the ISIS fanatics in the Middle East.

The power that comes with the presidency is not about privilege; it is about responsibility. God places kings, prime ministers and presidents in positions of power to resist the evil in this world and rescue those who are abused and victimized by evil. God will hold you accountable for how you use the power with which you were entrusted by the American people.

Romans 13:1-5 makes it clear that God expects government officials to use the power at their disposal to instill fear and terror in those who are evil. Verse 4 goes so far as to call the one in your position an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Mr. President, you have a moral obligation from God to use the power at your disposal to stop the ISIS evil—to put an end to their genocidal crucifixions and beheadings of innocent men, women and children.

I have no question that a strategic operation to rescue the poor people who are being slaughtered by ISIS would have the approval of heaven and the majority of the American people. I and millions of others would pray for the quick success of such an operation, which would not only rescue thousands from the current genocide, but would stop ISIS from carrying out plans to attack the American homeland.

I realize that Washington, D.C., runs on sleazy politics on both sides of the political aisle, but this cannot be a decision based on political calculations. Politics must be set aside. This is a decision that must be made based on a moral imperative to rescue those being led away for slaughter. It is a decision that must be made with more concern for what God thinks than what politicians, lobbyists and the media think. I pray you have the courage to make such a decision.

Mr. President, there comes a time in everyone’s life when they must choose between what is right, and what is comfortable and politically convenient. That time has come to Washington, D.C. I pray that you and your colleagues, both Democratic and Republican, will have the moral courage to stand for truth, choose what is right, and use the power at your disposal to stop the genocidal rape and slaughter of innocent people.

My prayers and best wishes are with you.

Sincerely,
Eddie L. Hyatt

Eddie Hyatt is an author, ordained minister and founder/director of Revive America. Through Revive America his goal is to help lay the biblical and historical foundation for another Great Awakening in our land. If you would like to host a Revive America event with your group or congregation, contact Eddie at [email protected]. His books are available on Amazon and on his website.

New Iraqi Christian: ISIS Wickedness a Turn off to Islam

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New Iraqi Christian: ISIS Wickedness a Turn off to Islam


ZAKHO, Iraq — Northern Iraq is facing a refugee crisis, with an estimated 182,000 Yazidis fleeing to Kurdistan to escape the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) army. Many have sought refuge in Kurdish cities, dwelling in abandoned office buildings.

Just behind the northern Iraqi city of Zakho are the mountains that lead to Turkey, which is very close, just several kilometers away. Many of the Yazidis who have come to Zakho say they prefer to go to Turkey. That’s because they can no longer live with Muslim Arabs.

One Yazidi leader told CBN News hundreds of Muslim neighbors turned against his people when Islamic State fighters arrived in Sinjar.

“These Arabic tribes, they joined them,” Faris Elias Kholo told CBN News.

“They took away our females, children, old men, everything,” he continued. “Even if we get back our homes, we cannot live with the Arabs because they usually try to persecute us.”

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One refugee told CBN News he spent eight days trapped on Sinjar Mountain. He’s a recent Christian convert so we’re calling him “Shamo” to protect his identity.

Shamo says he witnessed terrorists kill 170 Yazidi men, then take their wives and daughters away to be sold or used as sex slaves.

He says he wants nothing to do with Islam because of ISIS and the atrocities committed by Muslims he once considered friends.

The newly converted Yazidi Christian says he was attracted to Christianity because of the kindness and generosity of Christians.

“I can say only one word about the difference between Islam and Christianity. The difference is between earth and sky and heaven,” Shamo told CBN News. “We are thinking everyday why we are not behaving like the Christians…We really saw a real humanity in their life.”

Feeling betrayed by Arab Muslims, the Yazidi refugees are looking to the Kurds and Christians for help.

CBN Disaster Relief is on the ground, seeking to bring them help and hope.

“We are here to show that you have not been abandoned,” Brian Scott, with

“Please, either if you can protect us, provide us an international protection, or take us out of the country because we don’t want to give our women and our children anymore,” he appealed. “And please pray for the Yazidi people to come to Christ just like me.”

CBN News witnessed firsthand changed hearts and lives as CBN partners provide blankets and clean water to sustain life and living water for all eternity.

“And we do these things in the name of Jesus Christ,” Scott said.

Original Photo by The Guardian

Pope Francis, Mary Is Not My Mother, and I Am Not an Orphan

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Pope Francis, Mary Is Not My Mother, and I Am Not an Orphan

Pope Francis has been a breath of fresh air for many Catholics seeking greater liberty and a growing concern for conservative Christians who take issue with his comments about homosexuality and other cultural issues.

But the pontiff’s latest statement is sparking an uproar from believers around the world. Pope Francis sent a tweet Tuesday that absolutely violates the truth of Scripture:

“The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan,” Pope Francis tweeted. As of the time I wrote this column it had been retweeted about 4,000 times and many of the responses were unkind.

Some suggested the pontiff is “completely bonkers,” while others asked if he had been inhaling too much incense, and yet another told the Argentine Jesuit to stick with the “peace is good” stuff. It gets worse from there, but it’s not appropriate to attack the man for his unscriptural tweet. It’s more appropriate to share the truth.

Mary the Mother to the World?

First, let’s explore how the pope expanded on his exaltation of Mary. During his weekly address in Rome, the pope positioned the Roman Catholic Church as a “mother” to the world and encouraged Catholics to follow Mary as an example of godly motherhood.

“In our catecheses, we have often noted that we do not become a Christian on our own, but by being born and nurtured in the faith in the midst of the people of God, that is the church. She is a true mother who gives us life in Christ, and in the communion of the Holy Spirit, brings us into a common life with our brothers and sisters,” the pope said.

“The model of motherhood for the church is the Blessed Virgin Mary, who in the fullness of time conceived through the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the Son of God. Her motherhood continues through the church, who brings forth sons and daughters through baptism, whom she nourishes through the Word of God.”

What About Romans 8:14-15?

So, let’s start dispelling this error with Scripture. Romans 8:14-17 shines light on the issue of orphans in Christ—there are no orphans in Christ:

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”

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Jennifer LeClaire is news editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and author of several books, including The Making of a Prophet and The Spiritual Warrior’s Guide to Defeating Jezebel. You can email Jennifer at [email protected] or visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.

The former Israeli President Shimon Peres Proposes ‘UN for Religions’ to Vatican

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The former Israeli President Shimon Peres Proposes ‘UN for Religions’ to Vatican

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres emerged from a Vatican City audience with Pope Francis Thursday after proposing a kind of United Nations for religions, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Peres, 91, who was the world’s oldest head of state until his term ended six weeks ago, met with Francis amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.

He used the talks to highlight human rights abuses from Hamas and to discuss the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.

But the main topic of conversation was Peres’s idea to create a UN-like organization he called “the United Religions.”

“In the past, most of the wars in the world were motivated by the idea of nationhood,” Peres said. “But today, wars are incited using religion as an excuse.”

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi confirmed to reporters that Peres had pitched his idea for “the United Religions” but said Francis did not commit to it.

 

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Free Farshid! Action Urged to free Iran Pastor

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Free Farshid! Action Urged to free Iran Pastor

Iranian Christian Pastor Farshid Fathi is spending his 35th birthday in an Iranian prison.

He was arrested in December of 2010 simply for his faith in Christ and was later sentenced to six years imprisonment in February of 2012.

For reasons unknown, Farshid was recently moved to one of Iran’s most brutal prisons, Rajai Shahr.

His situation has become precarious since the move and Elam Ministries reports he is having trouble sleeping for fear of being attacked by fellow inmates.

Rajai Shahr is where fellow Christian prisoner Saeed Abedini is also incarcerated.

David Yeghnazar with Elam Ministries spoke with CBN News from the United Kingdom about Pastor Farshid’s situation and renewed efforts to see him released.

Original Photo by CBN

President George W. Bush’s chilling warning on Iraq in 2007

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President George W. Bush’s chilling warning on Iraq in 2007

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Remember this? Chillingly prophetic words from then-President George W. Bush in 2007

on criticism of the U.S. troop surge in Iraq

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President George W. Bush’s warning on Iraq

Biden:”We will follow ISIS to the gates of Hell

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Biden:”We will follow ISIS to the gates of Hell

Hampshire on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden issued a warning to the Muslim terrorist group that the United States would “follow them to the gates of Hell.”

“They should know we will follow them to the gates of Hell until they are brought to justice,” he declared, elevating his voice. “Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.”

Biden began by denouncing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been missing in Syria since last year.

“What these barbarians replicated with Steven what they did with [journalist James] Foley, they somehow think that it’s going to lessen U.S. resolve, frighten us and intimated us,” he said. “If they think the American people can be intimidated, they don’t know us very well.”

“We came back after 9/11. We dusted ourselves off and we made sure that Osama bin Laden would never, ever again threaten the American people,” Biden continued. “We came back Boston strong, blaming no one but resolve to be certain that this didn’t happen again.”

“The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand,” he said. “As a nation, we’re united, and when people harm Americans, we don’t retreat. We don’t forget.”

As previously reported, the video surrounding Sotloff’s beheading, entitled Second Message to America, was posted to social media sites on Tuesday and was later confirmed to be authentic.

“I’m back, Obama,” states the masked executioner standing by Sotloff’s side, who is believed to be the same ISIS fighter who beheaded Foley last month, “and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.”

“We take this opportunity to warn those governments who’ve entered this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone,” he states. “Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”

Sotloff, who has been missing for the past year, also speaks in the video, making statements that are believed to have been

mandated by his captors. His executioner stands with a knife in his hand.

“I’m sure you know exactly who I am by now and why I am appearing,” he states. “Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for preservation of American lives and interests. So why is it that I am paying the price of your interference with my life?”

ISIS specifically seeks to establish an Islamic State in the areas that it conquers, placing the regions under Islamic rule.

Earlier this month, VICE News released a video documentary showing Abu Mosa, a spokesman for ISIS threatening to retaliate if the U.S. interferes with its establishment of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

“I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” he said. “Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.”

Original Photo by daily mail

“We will humiliate them everywhere, Allah willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House,” Mosa declared.
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Pope Francis Twitted – I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

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Pope Francis Twitted – I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

Pope Francis Twitted – I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me. 

 

What to do concerning ISIS? A Christian’s anguish

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What to do concerning ISIS? A Christian’s anguish

When I think about ISIS and what our response as a nation should be to their reign of terror my soul is in anguish.

Why the anguish? Does ISIS not completely devalue human life and are they not committed to the utter destruction and mass enslavement of all people who refuse to surrender allegiance to them? Does this not warrant the use of military action to stop them?

The reason I am in anguish is because I take seriously the nonviolent life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth who I strive to follow. In the temptation narrative Jesus renounces the option of wielding power as a means of accomplishing God’s will.

In his conflict with the religious and political powers of his day, Jesus chooses the way of suffering every time instead of the way of violence. At the time of his arrest he tells his disciples, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword” (Matt. 26:52).

Jesus dies powerless and mocked, absorbing the animosity of his tormentors without wishing them harm.

Less we think this was somehow unique to Jesus, he instructed any would-be follower to renounce all violence by taking up his or her cross and getting in line behind him (Matt. 16:24).

He even told his disciples to love their enemies by praying for them and doing good to them (Matt. 5:38-48). In his letter to the Romans, Paul echoes basically this same teaching (Rom. 12:14-21).

Not all Christians have taken or do take Jesus’ teaching on love of enemies seriously. Church historian and religion professor Charles Marsh researched some of the sermons delivered by influential evangelical ministers during the lead-up to the first Iraq war.

He discovered that many, such as Franklin Graham, Paul Crouch (Founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network), Jack Graham (then president of the Southern Baptist Convention) and popular Baptist preacher Charles Stanley, to name a few, fully endorsed the war effort.

In one sermon Stanley admonished, “We should offer to serve the war effort in any way possible.”

He quoted Paul in Romans 13:1 about being subject to governmental powers, but completely ignored Paul’s instruction to not repay evil for evil, refuse retaliation and do good to our enemies in Romans 14.

And he totally dismissed Jesus’ teaching on nonviolence and love of enemies in Matthew 5, claiming that Jesus was speaking to us as individuals, as if that somehow justified completely rejecting it.

Marsh observed that Stanley expressed “no anguish, no dark night of struggle,” no “hint of apprehension, or words of caution, about the certain violence inflicted on civilians.”

For the first three centuries the vast majority of Christians rejected all expressions of violence and refused to take up arms under any condition.

The reason: They sought to be faithful to the life and teachings of their Lord and his alternative kingdom. That all changed when Constantine wed church and empire, and made Christianity the official religion of Rome.

Since then the majority of Christians have endorsed violence or sought to justify it under certain conditions and circumstances. Many have simply ignored, dismissed or rationalized Jesus’ life and teaching as if they did not matter.

Father George Zabelka was the chaplain who administered Catholic mass to the bomber pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945 resulting in the mass destruction of civilians. Later he came to repent of his complicity in the destruction.

In an interview with Sojourners, he described the Christian ethos of the times:

“I’ll tell you that the operational moral atmosphere in the church [the church at-large/the majority of Christians] in relation to mass bombing of enemy civilians was totally indifferent, silent and corrupt at best – at worst it was religiously supportive ….”

There have always been pockets of resistance to violence from peace-loving people, and from Christian communities that have born prophetic witness to both state and church, but for the most part Christendom has a sad history of acquiescing to violence.

I struggle with Jesus’ teaching and do not claim to renounce violence in all circumstances as Jesus commanded. I cannot fault Dietrich Bonhoeffer for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler, for I probably would have done the same.

I suspect I would employ any means available, including violence, to save family and friends from death by violence (if an intruder invaded my home, for example), and so I struggle with the question of what to do about ISIS.

Do we, as a nation, have a moral obligation to our sisters and brothers in that part of the world to protect them from genocidal destruction?

By the way, I wish our president and national leaders would frame the question as a moral obligation to humanity, though I don’t expect them to.

They tend to frame the question the way empires frame the question: What must we do to protect national interests and our own people?

A follower of Jesus must frame the question in terms of the dignity and value of all human lives, not just American lives. Anything less is not Christian.

Is violence ever justified? According to Jesus it is not. Hence, my anguish of soul. I am a Christian minister, but I am not yet willing to follow Jesus all the way to the cross.

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Amazon Launch Fire TV box launches in the UK

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Amazon Launch Fire TV box launches in the UK

Amazon writes ,  Fire TV box will launch in the UK on 23 October for £79, Amazon announced.

Dear Customers,

We are excited to bring you Amazon Fire TV.

Introducing Amazon Fire TV: Easy and instant access to Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Spotify and much more

Fire TV is a tiny box that plugs into your HDTV for easy and instant access to Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Demand 5, Spotify, Sky News, Curzon Home Cinema, YouTube, low-cost video rentals and much more. With access to thousands of TV episodes and movies, plus your favourite subscriptions and streaming services, you can watch what you want, when you want. If you’re a Prime member, enjoy unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows, including exclusives like Vikings, Extant, Ripper Street, and Alpha House.

Fire TV has voice search that actually works. The old way of searching with a TV remote—scrolling and clicking one letter at a time on an alphabet grid—is painful. With Fire TV you simply speak the title, actor or genre into the remote and you’re done.

Fire TV may be tiny on the outside, but it has huge hardware specs on the inside. It has a powerful quad-core processor, dedicated GPU, 2 GB of memory, and dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi. With a fast, fluid interface, high definition 1080p video, and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound, Fire TV looks—and sounds—amazing. We also added an exclusive new feature called ASAP that predicts what movies and TV episodes you’ll want to watch and gets them ready to stream instantly. No one likes waiting for videos to buffer.

As a bonus, we also added games. There are over three hundred titles to explore on Fire TV including blockbuster games likeMinecraft, The Walking Dead, Monsters University and Amazon exclusive Sev Zero, as well as great free games. To enhance gaming even further, we’re also introducing our newAmazon Fire Game Controller—a dedicated wireless game controller designed to take you deeper into the action, with even more titles to enjoy.

Our customers in the US are loving both Fire TV and Fire Game Controller, and we are thrilled to now introduce them to the UK.

— The Amazon Fire TV Team.

P.S. We think everyone will love Fire TV, but it’s especially great for Prime members, who can enjoy instant, unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Video. As a thank you to both new and existing Prime members, we’re excited to offer Fire TV for just £49, for five days only.

Original Announcement by Amazon.co.uk

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