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Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel, a former adviser to the Obama White House, admitted today that, if Democrats have their way, the individual insurance market is going away. “Insurance companies don’t want, insurance companies don’t want the individual market as it’s constructed. They see the future. That individual market is going away. They don’t want to invest in it.” That was their plan all along. Via FOX News Sunday:

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel talks challenges facing the law. Fox News: The Kelly File

Circuit Pastors' Conference Tuesday, September 10, 2013 “You Shepherds, Hear the Word of the Lord” (Ezekiel 34:1-24)The readings for this coming Sunday in the three-year lectionary are perfectly suited for preaching to a bunch of pastors. All the readings concern the role of a shepherd caring for his sheep. In the Holy Gospel, from Luke 15, Jesus compares himself to a shepherd who goes to find a lost sheep. This fulfills the prophecy of Ezekiel 34, the Old Testament Reading, in which the Lord says that he himself will search for his sheep and seek them out. Even the Epistle,...

Was Ezekiel an epileptic? By Judy Siegel November, 19 2001 JERUSALEM (November 19) - Ezekiel's visions may have resulted as much from disease as from divine inspiration, according to a California neuroscientist, who believes the prophet suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy. Dr. Eric Altschuler, of the University of California at San Diego, presented his theory about Ezekiel and epilepsy before last week's meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego and reported in the latest issue of New Scientist. Altschuler said a careful reading of the Book of Ezekiel shows he had "all the classic signs of the ...

The media is fixated on the GOP primaries and the American presidential campaign and giving scant attention to Russia’s upcoming election on Sunday, March 4th. But the Russian vote may prove to be a bigger deal than our own. Here’s why: Though protest movements against Vladimir Putin throughout Russia in recent months suggest a growing number of Russians finally see the former KGB chief for what he is—a thug and a bully—polls still suggest he is expected to win handily. If those polls are right and Putin does, in fact, reemerge as president then let’s be clear: we will be...

The Rossi ECat may be important in the fulfillment of the end times prophecies of Ezekiel. Consider the following: From Ezekiel 39:9-10a 9 “‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. 10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. Now think about this - Modern weapons are...

Obama does not understand the reality of Israel's situation, senior Israeli official says on Friday.Asked why he gave a strong rebuttal to U.S. President Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Friday on board his plane to Washington: "There are things that can't be swept under the carpet." As Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. ahead of his meeting with the American president later in the day, a senior Israeli official said that Obama does not understand the reality of Israel's situation. In a high-profile Middle East policy speech on Thursday, Obama supported continued...

I think that the prophet Ezekiel is one of the more esoteric and mysterious figures in the Bible. We know of the enigmatic opening chapter. We are familiar with chapter 36, "The Valley of the Dry Bones," which prophecies the rebirth of the nation of Israel after almost 2,600 years of exile, pogroms, domination by gentile and Muslim nations of the world and the Holocaust, yet God remembered His promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3), God redeemed the Jewish people and brought them back to the Promised Land of Israel as a nation on May 14, 1948. According to theologian Charles...

[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: [2] Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them: [3] And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people: [4] Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his...

GLEANINGS FM THE SHORTER BIBLICAL PROPHETS VS REPLACEMENTARIANS ET AL HOSTILE TO ISRAEL Replacementarianism Meets God's Shredder JOEL The Message Version Get In Touch With Reality--And Weep!    Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely,    everyone, whoever and wherever you are!Have you ever heard of anything like this?    Has anything like this ever happened before—ever?Make sure you tell your children,    and your children tell their children,And their children their children.    Don't let this message die out. Quix Commentary: Clearly God is asserting that this message is to have a very long 'history future' reach. DON'T LET THE MESSAGE DIE OUT! Coupled...

Over the last few weeks and months I have found myself truly astonished at the speed of which Bible prophecy appears to be unfolding on the world scene. If one looks back towards the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama, one will notice that around the same time things started to change for Israel and the Middle East in general. With the inauguration of President Obama looming in early 2009, Israel was pressured into ending the war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas during Operation Cast Lead. This pressure resulted in Israel not finishing their objective of wiping out...

A statement from the Turkish government promises “unprecedented and incalculable reprisals” against Israel for the Israeli Navy’s seizure of the Marmora, a Turkish vessel, which was leading a fleet of ships through the Gaza blockade over the weekend. The statement has received the support of Hezbollah, an arm of the Iranian government, and Hamas, the Palestinian network. Such measures will not be confined to diplomatic censure. Reports from Ankara, the capital of Turkey, state that the government, which remains under the control of the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma, AKP), is planning to continue pounding the Israeli blockade...

Has anyone else read "Ezekiel Option" by Joel Rosenberg?? While I KNOW scripture will unfold EXACTLY as God fortold, it seems as though God has given Rosenberg a true gift. I can't help but think with the nuke treaty, this plane crash, they way Obama is turning his back on Israel, etc. that we are on the precepise of something HUGE and that it may be unfolding very close to what Rosenberg wrote. Rosenberg is not the authority, God's word is, but I really feel God has given him the gift to take scripture and current events and tie them...

My diocese ( House )( Spirit ~ Water ~ Blood ) is within you , My kingdom expands around you , But do you notice or is this all for naught ?!, Are you aware of your surroundings as Ezekiel was taught ? , Can you imagine ? Can you envision the four living creatures surrounding Me ?! , That all this is yours if only you see , It is no longer you or your matter (existence) but mine , And it is upon my table and cup you dine , That the image in your mirror is no...

I've started a blog on endtime prophecy, and would appreciate any and all freeper traffic/comments/discussion. While I'll talk about any endtime prophecy issue, its primary focus is the coming War of Gog and Magog, which is IMHO the next major event on the prophetic timeline. And given the current state of affairs unfolding with regard to Israel, I believe we could be extremely close to fulfillment of Ezekiel 38.

In another sign today that Iran continues to put their military machine on the front burner it was announced by the Jerusalem Post that Iran had launched the first locally built naval destroyer. The Jerusalem Post article went on to report: Iranian state TV on Friday reported that the country launched its first domestically built destroyer, calling it a major technological leap for its naval industries. Friday's broadcast said the guided-missile destroyer called Jamaran is equipped with anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles as well as torpedoes and naval cannons. The report said the 94-meter destroyer weighs 1,500 tons and has a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address this week in Poland, commemorating the 65th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz. Speaking on the actual site of the Nazi death camp, the Prime Minister delivered a major address warning the world of new genocidal threats against the Jewish people and the importance of acting early enough to prevent such threats from coming to pass. He also declared to the people of Europe and the world that the prophecies of Ezekiel 37 have been fulfilled.

IsraelNN.com) Early reports that Iraq plans to retain the Jewish nature of the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel are apparently false. Sources in Baghdad say that the government plans to turn it into a mosque and erase all Jewish markings. Iraq announced earlier this year that it would revamp the ancient burial site, which is located in Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad. The U.S.-backed government announcement implied that its Jewish nature would continue to be emphasized. Since then, however . . .

DESECRETAION OF SACRED SITE PROMPTS LITTLE ATTENTION by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. thelastcrusade.org The Iraqi government plans to convert the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, one of the most sacred sites for Christians and Jews, into a massive new mosque. What’s more, the Iraqis intend to erase all Jewish markings from the tomb so that no indication of its historic significance will remain for future generations. The plan to transform the ancient burial site into a mosque was reported this week by Ur News, the Iraqi news agency, and Shelomo Alfassa, Director of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries....

BAGHDAD -- It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C. Like this country's once great Jewish community, the Iraqi Jewish Archive of books, manuscripts, records and other materials has gone through turbulent times. Now another twist may be in store: Iraq wants it back. Iraqi officials say they will go to the U.S., possibly next month, to assess the materials found by U.S. troops...