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[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

Something to Think about Today—
24 June 2026

Psalms 92:7-9 “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

But Thou, LORD, art Most High for evermore. For, lo, Thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, Thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”

Ps 84:10 “For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the House of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

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[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

WHY DOES SATAN WANT THE CHURCH TO HATE ISRAEL?

If Satan hates the Church, why does he work so hard to make the Church hate Israel?

Because Israel is not merely a nation.

Israel is a testimony to the faithfulness of God.

From Genesis onward, God attached His name to specific promises concerning Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants.

"I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you." (Genesis 17:7)

He promised a people (Genesis 12:2).

He promised a land (Genesis 15:18-21).

He promised a throne (2 Samuel 7:12-16).

He promised a kingdom (Daniel 7:13-14; Luke 1:32-33).

And He promised that those covenants would endure.

This creates a problem for Satan.

If God fulfills those promises exactly as spoken, His faithfulness is vindicated before the entire world.

God told Abraham:

"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse." (Genesis 12:3)

The issue is larger than one nation. It is about whether God keeps His word.

As Bible teacher Chuck Missler often observed, Satan's strategy has always been aimed at preventing God's program from reaching its appointed conclusion.

So Satan has pursued the same objective for thousands of years.

Not merely to destroy Israel physically.

But to undermine confidence in God's promises.

Consider the pattern:

❖ Pharaoh tried to destroy Israel's sons.

❖ Haman sought to exterminate the Jews.

❖ Antiochus desecrated the Temple.

❖ Herod slaughtered the infants of Bethlehem.

❖ Hitler attempted genocide.

❖ Hamas continues the hatred today.

Different centuries.

Different empires.

Same hatred (Psalm 83:1-8).

Same target (Zechariah 12:2-3).

The war did not begin in the Middle East.

It began with the promise of Genesis 3:15.

The promised Redeemer would come through a particular people, and Satan has opposed that people ever since.

But there is an even more subtle strategy.

If Satan cannot destroy Israel, perhaps he can convince the Church that Israel no longer matters.

Perhaps God's promises can be redefined.

Perhaps Israel can be replaced.

Perhaps prophecy can be spiritualized.

Perhaps Christians can be persuaded to boast against the very people through whom God gave the Scriptures, the prophets, and the Messiah Himself.

Paul warned the Church against exactly this attitude:

"Do not boast against the branches." (Romans 11:18)

And again:

"Do not be arrogant, but tremble." (Romans 11:20)

Notice that Paul never says God is finished with Israel.

In fact, he asks:

"Has God rejected His people? By no means!" (Romans 11:1)

And later declares:

"The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable." (Romans 11:29)

Not temporary.

Not conditional.

Irrevocable.

Paul reminds us that to Israel belong:

"the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises." (Romans 9:4)

The adoption.

The glory.

The covenants.

The promises.

And from them came the Messiah Himself (Romans 9:5).

The issue is bigger than ethnicity.

Bigger than politics.

Bigger than modern borders.

The issue is whether God keeps His word.

Jeremiah records one of the most astonishing promises in Scripture:

"Only if these decrees vanish from my sight... will Israel ever cease being a nation before me." (Jeremiah 31:35-37)

As long as the sun shines.

As long as the moon remains.

As long as the stars fill the heavens.

God's covenant commitment to Israel remains.

Think about the alternative.

If God can permanently abandon Israel after making unconditional promises to her, what prevents Him from abandoning us?

If He can revoke an everlasting covenant, what confidence can we have in our own salvation?

The security of the believer ultimately rests upon the character of the Promise-Maker.

That is why Revelation 12 is so important.

The dragon hates the woman who brought forth the Messiah.

His hostility is not political.

It is prophetic.

Israel is connected to Messiah's first coming (Micah 5:2; Romans 9:5).

Israel is connected to Messiah's second coming (Zechariah 12:10; Matthew 23:39).

Israel is connected to the covenants, the kingdom, and the ultimate vindication of God's promises (Jeremiah 31:35-37).

And Satan knows it.

The irony is profound.

Jesus is Jewish.

The apostles were Jewish.

The prophets were Jewish.

The Scriptures came through the Jewish people.

The Savior came through the Jewish people.

Yet throughout history, some who claimed the name of Christ developed hostility toward the very people through whom God brought salvation to the world.

Scripture never tells believers to hate Israel.

It tells us not to boast.

Not to be arrogant.

Not to forget the root that supports us.

One day, the world will discover that God has not forgotten His covenant people (Zechariah 12:10; Romans 11:26).

Zechariah foresaw a future day when:

"Ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew... and say, 'Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.'" (Zechariah 8:23)

Ultimately, Satan's attack on Israel has never really been about Israel.

It has always been an attack on the character of God.

Because if God can break His promises to Israel, He can break His promises to anyone.

But He cannot.

"God is not a man, that He should lie." (Numbers 23:19)

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

@DrJonMJenkins Pastor Jenkins, please know that you are in my prayers! I will never forget your dear son and the heartbreaking journey that you all went through before he left this world to be with the LORD... God bless and keep you and all those who loved your precious Brandon.

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

Praying for the Saints https://t.co/I7hkB3mTJO
8 June 2026/23 Sivan 5786
Urgent Request to God’s People

Please earnestly pray for the people in the Philippines who experienced a powerful and devastating earthquake today... A dear friend of mine, Pastor Arnie, who I am very concerned about, is a Baptist Pastor that I have known for over twenty years. He lives in General Santos City where the earthquake hit.
Pastor Arnie is a devout man of God who is serving in the midst of an extremely dangerous part of the world...
Go to True Light Publications to read the rest of the post at my website.

[Jon Harris 🌲 @jonharris1989]

Willie Rice is making waves in the Southern Baptist Convention by admitting past failures and repenting for his role in backing the wrong groups. Now running for president, he's advocating for transparency and challenging the denomination's stance on female pastors.

[Josh Wilson @swils0608]

@coconservative7 @Christ_OverAll @deaninserra James Merritt, the one who promoted his apostate gay son’s sermons? We are supposed to take anything he says seriously?

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

D-Day: Invasion of Normandy [Real Footage in Colour]

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

@conservmillen Amen!

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Several years ago, Jill Stanek, a former registered nurse, testified before the House Judiciary Committee about her time working in the Labor and Delivery ward of Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

She described what it was like to discover that babies who survived abortions were being placed in a utility closet to die.

She said: “I was traumatized and changed forever by my experience of holding a little abortion survivor for 45 minutes until he died, a 21/22-week-old baby who had been aborted because he had Down Syndrome.”

Infants with special needs in this nation are routinely killed, maimed, and tortured simply because of their diagnosis. If you can’t take the most morally obvious position in the world, that babies shouldn’t be murdered, I am not interested on your view on anything else.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

His name was Roddie Edmonds.

Most people had never heard of him.

A quiet Methodist from Knoxville, Tennessee. A husband. A father. A churchgoing man who came home from World War II, raised his family, and never once bragged about what he had done.

The world almost lost his story completely.

December 1944.

The Battle of the Bulge.

Roddie Edmonds had been on the Western Front less than a week when his unit was surrounded by German forces. Thousands of American soldiers were captured during Hitler’s final major offensive.

Edmonds became one of them.

What followed was brutal.

A forced march through freezing snow.
Men collapsing from exhaustion.
Packed into rail cars with almost no food or water.
Days of starvation and cold before arriving at Stalag IX-A, a German prison camp.

As the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer there, Edmonds was responsible for 1,292 prisoners.

Then came the order.

All Jewish soldiers were to report separately the next morning.

Everyone understood what that meant.

Separation was not administration.

It was a death sentence.

That night, Edmonds gathered his men and gave a simple instruction:

“All of you. Every American. Outside in formation tomorrow morning.”

The next day, the German commandant arrived expecting a small group.

Instead, he found 1,292 American prisoners standing shoulder to shoulder.

Furious, he shouted:

“They cannot all be Jews!”

Roddie Edmonds answered with four words that would echo across history:

“We are all Jews here.”

The commandant pulled out a pistol and pressed it against Edmonds’s forehead.

He threatened to shoot him if he did not identify the Jewish soldiers immediately.

Edmonds never moved.

Instead, he calmly reminded the officer that under the Geneva Convention, prisoners only had to give their name, rank, and serial number.

Then he said this:

“If you shoot, you’ll have to shoot all of us. And when this war is over — which it nearly is — you’ll be tried as a war criminal.”

The commandant lowered the gun.

Turned around.

And walked away.

About 200 Jewish-American soldiers were saved that morning because one man refused to divide his men into categories worth protecting and categories worth surrendering.

But Edmonds wasn’t finished.

Weeks later, the Germans ordered the prisoners onto another forced march through the snow.

Edmonds knew many would die.

So he secretly told his men to make themselves appear too sick to travel — eat dirt, grass, whatever it took.

When the Germans came, the Americans stayed behind.

Nearly all the prisoners forced onto the march died.

Edmonds’s men survived to be liberated by General Patton’s forces in March 1945.

And then?

Roddie Edmonds came home and said almost nothing about it.

No speeches.
No interviews.
No book deals.

He worked. Went to church. Raised his children.

He died in 1985.

His family knew he had been a POW.

They had no idea he had saved hundreds of lives.

The truth only resurfaced decades later after his son discovered his wartime diary and began contacting survivors whose names were written inside.

Again and again, they told the same story.

The same frozen morning.
The same pistol.
The same four words.

“We are all Jews here.”

In 2015, Yad Vashem recognized Roddie Edmonds as “Righteous Among the Nations” — the first American soldier ever to receive the honor.

And in 2026, more than 80 years after that moment in the prison yard, his son accepted the Medal of Honor on his behalf.

No battlefield charge.
No dramatic explosion.

Just moral courage.

A man staring down a loaded gun and refusing to hand over his soldiers.

One survivor later said:

“That such people can exist gives you hope for humanity.”

They do exist.

Roddie Edmonds was one of them.

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

Today is the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day—a momentous event that changed the course of the war!

It was 5 June 1944 when President Eisenhower initially planned to begin the military operation, but God stopped him due to the weather; and in the early hours of 6 June, under the cover of darkness, American and British paratroopers dropped into Normandy from more than 1,200 aircraft.

The sunrise on 6 June brought with it wave after wave of landing vessels, carrying the more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian, and French ground troops who stormed some fifty miles of coastline in Northern France, beaches fiercely defended by the Germans.

To learn more about D-Day, I encourage you to visit this very informative website: https://t.co/D06TalaplF

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

Why Me LORD? https://t.co/ESilbdk3WC

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

At the SBC in 2016, Russell Moore answers the question about building mosques.

The question: “I would like to know how in the world someone in the Southern Baptist Convention can support the defending of rights for Muslims to construct mosques in the united states when these people threaten our very way of existence as Christians and Americans.  They are murdering Christians, beheading Christians, imprisoning Christians all over the world.  Do you actually believe that if Jesus Christ were here today, He would actually support this and that He would stand up and say, well, let us support the rights of those Baal worshippers to erect temples to Baal?  Do you believe that Dr. Moore?”

He says he believes in “soul freedom.” Wait for him to say “that a government that has the power to outlaw people from assembling….”

Russell Moore: “You know sometimes we have to deal with questions that are really complicated and we have to spend a lot of time thinking them through and not sure what the final result was going to be.  Sometimes we have really hard decisions to make. This isn’t one of those things.”

“And brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship, then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and in New York and throughout the country who are not going to be able to build. And the bigger issue, though, is not one of self-interest.”

“What it means to be a Baptist is to support soul freedom for everybody.”

“The bigger issue is that we have been called to the gospel of Jesus Christ. A government that has the power to outlaw people from assembling together and saying what they believe – that does not turn people into Christians, that turns people into pretend Christians and it sends them straight to hell. The answer to Islam is not government power. The answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the new birth that comes from that.”

[Allen S. Nelson IV @cuatronelson]

Women trying to become pastors has been the greater problem. Statistically, it’s not even close. SBC seminaries are even training them. Further, women ran churches in SBC is an issue not talked about enough. The SBC ought to stand boldly against all unqualified pastors.

[C. Read @TrueLightPublic]

I stand with you Mr. Nelson.

Here’s my view on this controversial subject that really shouldn’t be…
C. Read

“There is a growing controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention churches regarding women pastors or preachers, and it is causing a lot of dissension among some people.

The truth of the matter is that women are not to be in positions of authority over men, plain and simple. Moreover according to God’s Word they are forbidden to be pastors.

Christian women are to submit to their own husbands, as unto the LORD (or their father until they marry), but those who are walking in the flesh/sin nature rather than being led by the Holy Spirit of God, will be opposed to these truths, and will make excuses as to why it doesn’t apply to them.

I know all this can be hard to accept, and if obeyed, there’s a lot of changes that need to be made in Christian families and societies.”

That was an excerpt from my post entitled In Spirit and in Truth that I published at my website (https://t.co/iCcVnKs0Qt) on 21 May 2026 / 5 Sivan 5786 / the 49th Day of the Omer.

Here’s an excerpt of my final statement from that same post. I hope that those who are concerned about this issue will go read the entire article and prayerfully consider what I am saying in light of the Holy Scriptures. Because keeping God’s Word should be paramount for any Christian!

“There’s much more I could say on this subject, and I could share several Holy Scriptures verses that would validate everything that I am saying, but I just want to end with this:

Never underestimate a woman who is listening to God—their opinions should be valued and taken into consideration. And especially never dismiss the testimony of woman who worships God in Spirit and in truth! Amen!”

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