Psalm 83
A song. A psalm of Asaph. 1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God. 2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. 3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. 4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.” 5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-- 6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. 8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants. 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, 10 who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.” 13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind. 14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, 15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. 16 Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name. 17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. 18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord-- that you alone are the Most High over all the earth. My friends, I believe it is more than possible that we are about to see this ancient Psalm reach its fulfillment after reading this article this morning (click on link below). In the studies I've done on this psalm, the ancient nations mentioned are the modern nations of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza (Palestinians). In this article we see the leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad meeting together to "coordinate against the Zionist enemy (Israel)." Much of these terrorist organizations' command, supplies, and agendas are driven by Iran. All of them are absolutely determined to "destroy them as a nation that the name of Israel be remembered no more." If you have not heard of the Islamic Jihad here is a summary I found of their organization: The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981. PIJ formed as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and was influenced ideologically in its formation by the Islamic regime in Iran. It is a member of the Alliance of Palestinian Forces, which rejects the Oslo Accords and whose objective is the establishment of a sovereign Islamic Palestinian state.[2] It calls for the military destruction of Israel and rejects a two-state solution.[3] The organization's financial backing has historically come mainly from Syria and Hezbollah.[4][5] Since 2014, PIJ has seen its power steadily increase with the backing of funds from Iran.[6] The armed wing of PIJ is Al-Quds Brigades (also known as "Saraya"), also formed in 1981, which is active in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Please pray in agreement with this psalmist! Israel needs our prayers. O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God. See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. https://worldisraelnews.com/hezbollah-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-meet-to-coordinate-against-zionist-enemy/
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My dear friends,
I write this at the risk of dating myself and perhaps even humiliating myself! Still, I need to write it just in case there are others out there who just might be going through the same technology hell that I'm going through. The various jobs of my past have all involved work on a computer. Early years were in the aerospace field in Colorado Springs, working on computer data all day long. In later years I managed medical offices and still had to keep up with many varied softwares and programs. But now...! In one week I received messages that caused alarm and much ensuing, time-consuming work to unravel. The first read something like this. "Did you just charge $1587.36 at Best Buy? If not please contact our Fraud Department right away." The second, from my email provider, said "You must implement two-step verification on your account. Please download the Authy app and follow the steps to create the f2 security key." I worked on those steps on my "smart" phone for over a week and never was successful. I responded to their email asking if someone would call me and help walk me through the steps. An email came back to inform me that "we do not have telephone support. Please click on this link." Meanwhile, I need to get into lots of websites to change passwords and after signing in to each website, I'm told to go to my cell phone to get the "verification code." I find my phone, search for the code, and then try to remember how to get back to the website to type it in. I spend almost every afternoon for the past five days changing passwords and "securing" all my accounts. My back hurts and my eyes are crossed. Sigh. I went to shop at Safeway on Thursday just to pick up a few items they had on sale. When I found the items in the dried fruit section I noted that the price was $4.99, but if you scan the code with your "smart" phone the price will be $1.97. I finally found a clerk who would show me how to scan the barcode on the package and then I proceeded to the check-out. There was only one clerk and about 4 rows of "self-check" and I was in a hurry by now as I had an appointment. I set my items down, entered my phone number, and tried to drag the packages across the scanner. Nothing beeped, nothing registered. I had to chase down a clerk again and he informed me that you no longer scan the items on the glass surface. No! NOW you lift the items up to the little green light above the surface. OK, sure, I did it. But I did not get the $1.97 price on my two items. Back to another clerk to ask why. The answer? "Didn't you see on the little tag next to the barcode that you have to buy THREE to get the deal?" No I didn't see that microscopic print on the tiny tag. And I don't have time to go back and get a third package. So now I have to pay. I want to pay cash as I am going back to paying cash everywhere to show the merchants that we really DO want to keep cash alive! But there's a sign on this self-checkout station that says, "No Cash Accepted. Sorry for the inconvenience." So I get out my Visa card but the little credit card thingy looks different. You don't slide the card anymore, you TAP the card at just the right angle in just the right place. (At least, thank God, they didn't ask to scan my eyeballs!) By now I'm asking God for help! A woman looking older than me hears me and comes up next to me. "I know what you're going through. Remember when we used to just pick something off the grocery shelf, put it in our cart, go to the next checker and pay with cash? Remember when it was all so simple?" Yes, I remember. I remember when I was a busy, young married woman, raising children and working fulltime and my mother decided it would be her way of helping me to clip paper coupons from the ads to save me time and money. Gosh, I loved those little piles of paper coupons that I just handed to the checkout clerk and that was it! Done! I didn't charge $1587.36 at Best Buy and then when I got into my credit card statement I found all the other fraudulent charges I had not yet seen. I still don't have 2-step verification on my email account. I don't care! I just want out of this High-Tech insanity where you can't even flush your toilet without your "smart" phone! (Or I assume that will be the case very soon). In a little video we saw tonight, Elon Musk was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson and he made a statement that he has suggested all the A.I. Chat GPT technology should be paused because it is headed for a very dangerous place of replacing all human intelligence. I guess that's how I'm feeling. Dumber than whatever Bot wants to steal my credit card and my personal information. I do not like this world anymore. The hackers and the "dark web" and the forces of evil are encroaching upon everything we do and it's all moving so quickly that perhaps only the very young can keep up and protect themselves. I may not have figured out how I can fully protect myself from scammers and thieves; but I HAVE figured out how I can maintain my peace. I came home from the grocery store and went out back into my garden where I picked four lucious, ripe, red tomatoes, about fives pounds worth of perfect Yukon Gold potatoes, three deep green acorn squash, and four brilliantly orange carrots. I loved touching and smelling these wonderful vegetables I'd just pulled from the earth and I stopped to give God grateful thanks. For a little while it took me out of all the techno-insanity and back to a world I grew up in, without cell phones or computers. A world without so much fear that everything you have could be lost in a single incorrect key stroke. I put the squash in the oven, dotted with butter and a little brown sugar, and then placed some salmon and gold potatoes on the BBQ grill. John was watching an old black and white episode of The Rifleman and I called him in to supper. We lit the two candles, held each others' hands and bowed our heads and thanked Jesus that He is our Protector, our Provider, and our Peace. A peace that passes all understanding. A shalom that is found in the Shabbat, when all this insanity ceases and we rest in the Prince of Peace! |
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April 2024
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