Hal Lindsey Report

Feb 7 2014

Examples of what the stars/celebrities are doing to our young people, and the tense peace treaty process. 

I have also included Hal’s weekly newsletter after the video.

Are you prepared?

Recently, you may have had to ask someone, “What is a Justin Bieber?” And that’s probably because, like it or not, we’ve been hearing a lot about Justin Bieber.

He’s a young pop-star from Canada. He’s the latest “teen idol” with a propensity for spiraling downward into riotous living. It’s even more disturbing because he was raised in a Christian home. But in the depraved atmosphere of our current entertainment world, even the better ones seem to fall.

Why is it important? Simply because how people think today is the main predictor of how they will behave tomorrow.

That makes the Justin Bieber story immensely important. Young Americans tend to form their thinking and character by mimicking the thinking and actions of their chosen celebrities. Justin Bieber doesn’t descend into depravity alone. Millions follow.

After his recent arrests for vandalism, speeding, and DUI, his fans, mostly young girls, deluged the internet with their support. The Justin Bieber story tells us how people are thinking – or not thinking – particularly, young girls.

If ever we needed to guide our young people to see how “the God of this world” is subtly working through these “teen idols”, it’s now. Remember, these pop-stars dominate far more time in our children’s minds than their Pastors and Sunday School teachers.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is so obsessed with the Palestinian/Israeli peace process that he’s not even listening to the Palestinians. If he did, he’d probably turn around and go home.

A few weeks ago, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed the famous “Three Noes” of the 1967 Arab League Khartoum Summit by announcing his own three “noes.”

In a fiery speech from his Ramallah headquarters, Abbas proclaimed that there would be no giving up the Palestinian “right of return”; no recognizing Israel as a Jewish State; and, no concessions over Jerusalem.

Like the famous “three noes” of 1967, these “don’t-even-go-there” refusals make any long-term peace deal between the two groups impossible because Israel cannot give in on any of the three.

So what’s really going on? With all of the efforts of the international community to broker a peace deal, why are the Palestinians just as intransigent in 2014 as they were in 1967 — almost 50 years later?

The bottom line is that with every fiber of their beings, they want to make void God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. Mohammad and all who follow him believe that God gave those promises to Ishmael and his descendants (the Arabs), not Isaac and the Jews. The heart of the conflict, then, is over the integrity of the Bible itself.

But don’t worry, Mahmoud Abbas may be able to manipulate the United States, and perhaps even some of Israel’s politicians, but he and all the armies of the world cannot foil what God has already declared will be done.

Many are talking these days about Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri’s prophecy of the coming Messiah. Kaduri was one of Israel’s most popular and influential Rabbis. He lived to be at least 108.

Shortly before his death, he told his followers that he had “met” the Messiah. He died a few days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fell into a coma in 2006.

According to the story, and there’s good evidence that it’s true, Kaduri left an envelope with instructions not to open it until one year after his death. A year later, when his family opened the note, they found that it revealed the name of the Messiah. Written in a simple code, it was an obvious reference to Jesus.

What makes this story even more interesting is that Rabbi Kaduri also prophesied that the Messiah would come after Ariel Sharon’s death. The prophecy implies that it would only be a short time after Sharon’s death.

So, do we take all of this at face value? It’s tempting. Be careful, though, the Bible warns us never to evaluate a prophecy based on whether or not we want it to be true.

This week, I’ll discuss Rabbi Kaduri’s cryptic note and whether it bears prophetic significance. It does, but maybe not in the way you might imagine.

Don’t miss this week’s Report on TBN, Daystar, CPM Network, The Word Network, various local stations, www.hallindsey.com or www.hischannel.com. Please check your local listings.

God Bless,

Hal Lindsey